Our Mission
Elohim Urban Mission is a comprehensive system of care utilizing multiple service providers and sites nationally. Elohim Urban Mission is dedicated to inclusion, nurturing, and empowering People of Color.
As part of its core values and beliefs, Elohim Urban Mission (EUM) adopts a holistic approach to health, emphasizing that good health encompasses physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual wellbeing. This holistic approach also guides the work of EUM as it supports communities and organizations that address the needs of People of Color living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. The lived experience of HIV is often more acutely felt socially than physically. Recognizing this, EUM is committed to reducing inequity, stigma and other social factors driving the epidemic by working with all levels of government, community organizations, and people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS.
Elohim Urban Mission plays a substantial and meaningful role in community well-being because of the community context in which we are rooted. As such, there is liberation for EUM to promote HIV/AIDS prevention and support for those infected and affected with the disease through worship services, pastoral care outreach, working connections with community services including local AIDS Service Organizations, youth outreach services, study groups as well as communication vehicles such as newsletters and bulletins.
Elohin Urban Mission new creative ways to promote neighborhood strategies and holistic community development services. Black Liberation is the spiritual mission, balanced with practical spiritual development of the poor, which is also Faith-Based.
As part of its core values and beliefs, Elohim Urban Mission (EUM) adopts a holistic approach to health, emphasizing that good health encompasses physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual wellbeing. This holistic approach also guides the work of EUM as it supports communities and organizations that address the needs of People of Color living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. The lived experience of HIV is often more acutely felt socially than physically. Recognizing this, EUM is committed to reducing inequity, stigma and other social factors driving the epidemic by working with all levels of government, community organizations, and people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS.
Elohim Urban Mission plays a substantial and meaningful role in community well-being because of the community context in which we are rooted. As such, there is liberation for EUM to promote HIV/AIDS prevention and support for those infected and affected with the disease through worship services, pastoral care outreach, working connections with community services including local AIDS Service Organizations, youth outreach services, study groups as well as communication vehicles such as newsletters and bulletins.
Elohin Urban Mission new creative ways to promote neighborhood strategies and holistic community development services. Black Liberation is the spiritual mission, balanced with practical spiritual development of the poor, which is also Faith-Based.
EUM Social Justice Project:
- Providing pastoral care to People of Color, from offering a list of resources to a full range of care services.
- Determining what kind of education on HIV prevention would be beneficial for groups in urban communities.
- Taking steps to overcome identified or suspected HIV stigma and discrimination in the urban community.
- Exploring issues of injustice, stigma and discrimination, and their impacts on health and vulnerability through workshops, health fairs, behavioral health, care retention, harm reduction, and vocational rehabilitation.
- Starting more dialogue groups internally and with external partners, to discuss HIV and vulnerability in and around People of Color, LGBTQA, non-binary, and gender non-conforming or questioning youth and adults.
- Discussing healthy relationships and issues of sex and sexuality with all people, young and old.
- Hosting and promoting participation in HIV testing and awareness days.
- Raising awareness of the social issues relating to HIV such as poverty and drug use.