"There is no community without U.N.I.T.Y."

Unfolding New Ideas Towards Yourself (U.N.I.T.Y.) Unfolding the potential of disenfranchised communities 

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OUR PURPOSE

EMPOWERING LIVES

Unfolding New Ideas Towards Yourself (U.N.I.T.Y.) Inc. was established in 2015 to improve the social and economic well being of disenfranchised communities with barriers to self-sufficiency – primarily incarcerated/post-release women and men, veterans  HOMELESS, ELDERLY and trans-gendered persons. Our approach is encompassed through a five tier system designed to provide individuals with tools to break social barriers preventing self-sufficiency. Some clients only need one or two services while others need everything. 

Through use of our innovative and evidence-based approaches to specific challenges method of analysis and modeling of the treatment process. Our methodology addresses: anti-social attitudes and associates, temperament & personality, education/vocation, financial and emotional literacy, familial/marital/relationship, substance abuse, roots of traumatic episodes and access to responsivity factors, e.g. readiness, personality/cognitive/intellectual demographics.

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WHAT WE DO

HELPING THOSE AFFECTED BY ADVERSE LIFE EVENTS

We provide a services menu that includes Restorative Practices Talking and Healing Circles, Trauma Responsive Care workshops, Speakers Bureau/Podcast “Changing the Narrative”, Back@Ya (clothing for returning citizens and other populations we serve), Reentry Avenues  

Restorative Practices/Communities

Restorative Practices, sometimes referred to as Restorative Justice, is a framework for building community and for responding to challenging behavior through authentic dialogue. Restorative Practices shift the conversation between individuals to offer an opportunity for all people affected by an action to have dialogue about how to make things right and restore relationships and communities.  

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Reentry Avenues

U.N.I.T.Y. and its representatives have been making a significant impact working with pre and post release women and men incarcerated in jails and prisons over the past twenty years. U.N.I.T.Y.  programs deliverables have demonstrated cost effectiveness and a variety of positive impacts, such as reductions in recidivism; high rates of satisfaction among program participants; and positive impacts on families, and communities.  

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Trauma Informed Care

U.N.I.T.Y. offers Trauma Transformation Specific Services which are used to minimize the harm to trauma survivors who are struggling in recovery and still participating in unsafe potentially harmful activities and to relieve and or reduce the symptoms stemming from past trauma. 

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Changing the Narrative
Speakers Bureau & Podcast

A collective of 10 women and men whose portrayals will come from the perspectives of a collective of seasoned individuals from lived
experiences, returned citizens, entrepreneurs, academia, street soldiers, facilitators, program
supervisors, administrative/developmental consultants, evaluators (and more).    

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Back @ Ya

Back@Ya is a pop-up social enterprise since 2011. Originated from Atlanta, GA our services commitment is to support returning citizens and their families with clothing from our expansive array of new and gently used name brand urban, casual and business attire.

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OUR ACHIEVEMENTS

Our approach is encompassed through a five tier system designed to provide individuals with tools to break social barriers preventing self-sufficiency. Some clients only need one or two services while others need everything. 

Identify

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of participants will be able to identify and address a negative behavior and thus changing it to a positive lifestyle using a cognitive/restorative  and healing circle approach (tools)

Accountability

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of participants will understand and use accountability as the cataylist for their transformation. 

Success

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will successfully complete the program,  and understand that the process is a strategy (not a guarantee) to reduce the likelihood of future occurrences

HELP US CHANGE A LIFE

By giving some of your time or donating any amount of money, you can help U.N.I.T.Y impact and change a person’s life who has been affected by adverse life events.

You have the power to get involved and make a difference.

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