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"...we want to ensure that our people are okay."

Dec 15, 2025
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Updated: Mar 11


Many of our longtime partners have known us as a backbone organization; an organization that focuses on data analysis, convening roundtables, and supporting systems-level solutions. That work mattered then, and it still informs who we are today.


But during the COVID-19 Pandemic, something shifted. We witnessed an urgent crisis that unfolded in real time: opioid overdoses surged, suicide rates climbed, and families – especially those caring for loved ones with Alzheimer’s Disease and other chronic illnesses – faced staggering fatigue and isolation. What we were seeing in the data was heartbreaking, but what we were hearing from our community was impossible to ignore.


So we stepped forward because we wanted to ensure that our people were okay.


Instead of limiting ourselves to analysis and coordination, we moved toward providing direct services; toward meeting people where they were hurting; and we began to provide immediate, practical support.


Today, our work includes opioid-use prevention programs, mental-health awareness initiatives, and hands-on training for caregivers of individuals living with Alzheimer’s Disease and other debilitating illnesses. These services grew not from a strategic rebranding, but from an urgent moral call: people needed help, particularly those in the African American community, and we were in a position to respond.


We hope that you will continue to partner with and support Urban Strategies Council as we move forward with new areas of service.


Thank you for believing in our mission, for growing with us, and for supporting this next chapter of service.


From all of us at Urban Strategies Council



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