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Mental Health Education
The OIH hopes for young adults with mental health awareness to provide more information and connect them with resources that support the combination of the mind is just as vulnerable to injuries as the body. The OIH could promote social change in combating the course of Mental Health while connecting them with resources that helped save lives. PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) has significantly affected thousands of elders and veterans in our community today. The OIH hopes to provide resources, raise awareness about the impact of Mental disorders in our community, and ensure social support within the jurisdiction of the 501c3 section to identify training resources and connect members to specialized treatments for counseling, therapy, and other forms of treatment. The OIH believes there is no shame in getting help when you need it
Young Adults/Adulthood Care
With more significant student dropout among the immigrant community, the OIH hopes to provide adult care/Support to help dropout students with substance abuse. Substance Abuse Prevention and Support is one major factor that OIH believes in creating a platform to raise awareness about the dangers of this abuse and connect members affected or individuals with the available resources, including where they can get treatment and recovery.
Health and Environmental Awareness
The OIH believes in promoting and raising health and environmental awareness. This means being aware of the natural environment and making choices that benefit the earth rather than hurt it through practicing environmental awareness, including using safe and non-toxic building supplies, conserving energy and water, recycling, activism, and others. Human health is vital, and things like pollution and plastics are found at the bottom of our deepest oceans and the highest mountains and have made their way into our food chain. Such systems create unhealthy foods and beverages that are driving a wave of obesity, increasing cancer and heart disease. OIH hopes to educate and promote awareness of Health and the environment due to asthma, heart disease, and lung diseases are skyrocketing as over 90 percent of people breathe unhealthy air from burning fossil fuels. In addition, a heating world is seeing mosquitoes spread diseases further and faster than ever before. With extreme weather events, land degradation, and water scarcity displacing people and affecting their health, the OIH will share its knowledge and raise awareness among friends and family to make a real difference in human well-being and quality of life.
Achieving cultural integration - The perspective and preservation of culture to foster integration.
According to OIH, Cultural Integration is achieved when people embrace a new culture without losing their own, and that means you are being accepted to be part of the new culture while continuing to practice your own at home and in the community. In addition to the OIH definition, others defined Cultural integration as when people from a culture adopt the essence of another culture while maintaining their own culture. OIH believes in fusing the two rather than losing or keeping their culture and altogether rejecting the new culture. OIH believes that immigrants can bring parts of their culture into their communities through food, language, music, arts, attitudes, or traditions. They also adopt aspects of their new culture and adapt to local customs and interacting methods. OIH believes that examples of this can be seen everywhere in American society. In promoting cultural integration in the United States, it is often referred to as a melting pot, meaning many cultures come together and melt or fuse into one more diverse culture. One evidence of this that can be seen in society is the variety of restaurants and food options in America that come from various cultures around the world. Cultural integration can also occur through books, movies, and media exports. In case, the OIH believes that promoting cultural integration will create a sense of unity within communities and foster respect for other cultures. Unlike assimilation, it allows people to function within a new culture without completely being absorbed. They can maintain their own cultural identity, and in return, the community is enriched by the exposure to their culture, especially the new immigrant that arrived in this country to help overcome cultural shock in North America.
Example of Cultural Integration
Florence came to this country and is the generation of immigrants that came to America to join his husband, John Abore, in November 2019. Florence and John’s parents are from South Sudan and mostly enjoy the rich South Sudan Acholi culture. The couple is bilingual, speaking both languages at various times, whether at home or in the community. They have friends in their community, often sharing meals and enjoying recreation together. John’s mother usually makes a traditional family recipe when friends visit, and her friends have introduced them to many of their favorite family recipes and traditions. For Florence’s fifteenth birthday, John’s parents plan a traditional party celebrating a girl’s passage from womanhood to parenthood and invite many friends from school and the community. Florence and John’s family have embraced the culture and language of their new home while practicing their own.
Importance of Cultural Integration
OIH cultural Integration helps foster a sense of unity within a community. It also enhances a community by allowing people to experience that they may not have access to otherwise. People can learn about the language, food, traditions, and arts of other cultures around them without traveling to those countries of origin. This fosters respect for different cultures and creates more informed and well-rounded citizens. Integration is essential because, unlike assimilation, people maintain their culture and the parts of their cultural identity that are important to them. They retain their culture by practicing it at home and in their community. They neither shun the new culture nor allow themselves to be wholly absorbed by it. Instead, they integrate into the larger culture without losing their essence.