Anne Arundel County Mental Health Agency

June is Gun Violence Awareness Month and includes National Gun Violence Awareness Day on Friday, June 5th. Everyone is encouraged to wear orange on this day to show solidarity with gun violence victims, survivors, and those working together to end gun violence. Throughout the month, pop-up Gun Safety Lockbox events are scheduled at county libraries. Click Here to learn more about this program and how you can get a free lockbox.

The Anne Arundel County Department of Health's Gun Violence Intervention Team (GVIT) will be hosting a Gun Violence Prevention Event on Thursday, June 4th from 5:30 PM-7:30 PM ET at the Fresh Start Church in Glen Burnie. This event will include a community forum, free safe storage lock boxes and gun locks, resources, refreshments, giveaways, a raffle, and youth activities. There are other Gun Violence Awareness events planned county-wide througout June, be sure to check out the Anne Arundel County GVIT calendar.

Other important June events include local celebrations to be held in Annapolis. On June 20th, there will be a parade, a festival, and a Reconciliation Ceremony celebrating Juneteenth, an official federal holiday since 2021, which recognizes the importance of June 19th, 1865, when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas and announced that the Civil War had ended and all those enslaved were free.

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