Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events
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Mental Health First Aider
Get certified as a Mental Health First Aider in our training centered on practical skills, confidence, and collective care.
This Mental Health First Aider Training offers an opportunity to build real world skills for recognizing and responding to mental health challenges with compassion and clarity.
Participants will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to recognize, understand, and respond to signs of mental health challenges and crises. Through an evidence based, interactive approach, participants will learn how to provide initial support and connect individuals to appropriate care and resources.
Participants who complete the full training will receive official Mental Health First Aid certification.
This training is ideal for educators, community leaders, caregivers, health and wellness professionals, HR staff, peer supporters, and anyone who wants to be better prepared to support mental wellbeing in everyday settings.
What You’ll Learn
How to recognize signs and symptoms of common mental health challenges
How to approach and support someone experiencing distress
Strategies for de escalation and crisis response
How to connect people to professional, peer, and community resources
Practical tools you can apply at work, at home, and in community spaces
What’s Included
Official Mental Health First Aid certification upon completion
Training materials and resource guide
Interactive activities and real world scenarios
Displaced: Black Women & The Workforce Vol. 3 & 4
There are moments after displacement that no one prepares you for.
After the shock.
After the paperwork.
After the questions about what you are going to do next.
This is where many Black women find themselves.
Rebuilding stability while carrying uncertainty, exhaustion, and decisions that feel too big to navigate alone.
This is not individual failure.
This is what disruption looks like in real life.
We are back.
If you missed the last Displaced: Black Women and Work, this is your opportunity to join us.
Displaced: Black Women and Work — Volumes 3 and 4 continues the conversation for Black women navigating job loss, workplace harm, and economic uncertainty.
This space centers truth telling, collective care, and practical support.
This is not career coaching.
This is not resilience theatre.
This is a place to pause, be seen, and access tools for what comes next.
Date: March 10 and 11
Time: 1:00 to 3:00 PM EST
Location: Virtual
Registration required
You are not alone in this.
You do not have to carry it quietly.
Pull up. Connect. Rest. Heal.
Free Black Motherhood
Let’s say the quiet part loud: We’re too comfortable with mothers dying.
I’m not just talking about the regular headlines of Black and other women who lose their lives trying to bring new life into the world. (Or the untold number of mothers who had near-death experiences, like me.) I’m also talking about the mothers we expect and encourage to die to themselves to meet the unrealistic, impossible standards of “good motherhood.”
The near-death experience I had giving birth to my oldest child forced me to confront a hard truth: our systems are often more comfortable with Black women’s sacrifice and death than with our healing. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
I am honored to partner with The Black Girl Health Collective to host Free Black Motherhood, Part I on Tuesday, March 3, from 6 to 8 PM ET.
Free Black Motherhood (FMB) is the journey—coined by me, motherhood scholar, award-winning storyteller, and coach Ambreia Meadows-Fernandez—that encourages Black mothers to prioritize the same freedom for themselves that they want for their children.
This session introduces my living, developing framework.
As we gather, we will explore the historical, cultural, and theoretical narratives that shape Black motherhood and examine the expectations placed on us through racism and patriarchy. We’ll connect through guided dialogue and reflection and explore what we hold that no longer serves us as we reclaim motherhood on our own terms.
This is not a lecture—though you will hopefully learn a lil somethin’. It is a space for truth-telling, connection, reimagining, and asking ourselves, “How would I mother if I knew I was free (to create your experience without rules or limitations.”
Collective Motion 8 Week Strength & Movement Class
February 2026
Collective Motion is an 8-week virtual strength training experience rooted in accessibility, care, and community. Led by Nique of Redefining Wellness, the program focuses on functional strength, mobility, and body awareness with options for all fitness levels. This is about moving together, building strength over time, and staying connected to your body. No pressure. No perfection.
Who it’s for: Anyone seeking a supportive, non-judgmental movement practice. Beginners, returners, and experienced participants are all welcome. No prior strength training required.
Details:
8 weeks • Virtual on Zoom
Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 6:30 PM ET
Recordings available for missed sessions
National Sex Ed Conference Mixer: Our Collective Futures
Get ready to mix, mingle, and share ideas at the Our Collective Futures NSEC conference mixer - where sex-ed meets community building!
This event is not open to the public. Registration is limited to NSEC 2026 attendees and will be cross-referenced with conference registration.
Seeds of Collective Futures is a mixer for registered attendees of the 2026 National Sex Ed Conference.
Hosted by The Black Girl Health Collective, this gathering creates space for NSEC participants to pause, connect, and reflect beyond formal conference sessions. This evening invites sex educators, advocates, clinicians, researchers, and community organizers to exhale, build relationships across sectors, and reconnect with the deeper purpose of this work.
Through guided table reflections and a visioning panel, participants are invited to consider what we are planting now and the futures those seeds make possible.
Small bites will be provided. Wine and beverages available for purchase. Come as you are, stay as long as you can, and be in community together.
Black Women In Bloom
Black Women In Bloom is a monthly peer space for community members navigating perimenopause, menopause, and the seasons in between to connect, find support, build relationships, and learn together.
The Cure: Wine Down
Bring your favorite wine , a charcuterie board , or just yourself. Let's vibe together with music , good energy and real convos
Searching for a safe space to vibe, reflect, have fun, and chat about ALL the things? ✨💬
Want to connect, build adult friendships, and find community? ❤️🔥🤝
We're holding space for all the things...
Join us for The Cure: Wine Down on Wednesday, Feb. 11th at 6:00pm ET 💛🎉
Bring your favorite wine 🍷, a charcuterie board 🧀🥖, or just yourself. Let's vibe together with music 🎶, good energy 🌟, and real conversations. 💕🔥
💡 Save the date 📅, and we’ll see you there! 🎉✨
#bghc #bghcthecure #thecure #welistenwedontjudge
Displaced: Black Women & The Workforce
There are layoffs and displacements from the workforce that make headlines. And then there are the ones you were never supposed to notice.
Since early 2025, more than 600,000 Black women have been quietly pushed out of work through layoffs, retaliation, burnout, and forced exits while the economy is still being called stable.
This is not individual failure.
This is structural harm.
Displaced: Black Women and Work is a 2 day virtual retreat created for Black women navigating job loss, workplace harm, and economic uncertainty. This space centers truth telling, collective care, and practical support.
This is not career coaching.
This is not resilience theater.
This is a place to pause, be seen, and access tools for what comes next.
🗓 January 20–21 from 1:00pm-3:00pm
📍 Virtual
🎟 Registration required
You are not alone in this. And you do not have to carry it quietly. Pull Up. Connect. Rest. Heal.
Wellness Wednesday
Wellness Wednesday
Midweek pause.
Intentional breath.
Time to reset.
Join The Black Girl Health Collective LIVE for Reset Wednesdays, a grounding yoga and guided meditation session with Jara designed to help you slow down, reconnect, and reset your nervous system.
📍 Live
🕛 12:00 PM ET
📅 December 17
This space is for Black women who need a moment of care in the middle of everything else.
Set your reminder and meet us on Instagram @blackgirlhealthcollective.
#ResetWednesdays #BlackGirlHealthCollective #MidweekReset #BlackWomenWellness #RestIsResistance #CommunityCare
Be Seen, Be Screened Sister Circle
Community is medicine.
On December 9, we’re gathering in a virtual Sister Circle to reconnect, breathe, and learn together as we talk about HPV and cervical cancer screening in a space made for us.
This isn’t just information. It’s companionship, story sharing, and collective support. It’s a reminder that we don’t walk through our health journeys alone. When we come together, we create safety, courage, and clarity for one another.
If you’ve been craving a warm circle, a place to ask real questions, or a moment to pour back into yourself with community, this space is for you.
Dec 9 at 7 PM
Register here
#BeSeenBeScreenedAndSafe #BGHC #SisterCircles #CommunityCare #BlackWomensHealth #CollectiveHealing
Our Bodies, Our Futures: Sister Circle on Cervical Cancer
This isn’t just a conversation. It's an intentional gathering hosted by The Black Girl Health Collective, in partnership with the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Delaware Chapter, and AmeriHealth Caritas Delaware.
✨ Together, we’ll create space for Black women to connect, share lived experiences, and build collective power. We’re centering culture, healing, sisterhood, and connection as we dive into meaningful dialogue around cervical cancer awareness and prevention.
👩🏾🤝👩🏽 Bring your sisters, aunties, daughters, and friends because our bodies and our futures deserve to be protected and prioritized.
Care In Color: The Healing Hour-Black Women In Healthcare.
Care In Color: The Healing Hour - Join us for The Cure: Care in Color - The Healing Hour, a restorative and inspiring evening of connection and joy designed for Black women in healthcare. Hosted by The Black Girl Health Collective and Stem & Vine, this event offers a vibrant space to decompress, restore, connect, and celebrate our collective brilliance.
This isn’t just another networking event. It’s where joy meets strategy, and community meets possibility. Sip on curated drinks, enjoy light bites, and engage in conversations that fill your cup—literally and figuratively. You’ll connect with fellow nurses, administrators, providers, clinicians, healthcare workers, and leaders who share your passion and purpose.
What to Expect:
A warm and affirming atmosphere
Opportunities for intentional networking and collaboration
Activations that center joy and fun
Space to discuss diverse specialties and innovations in healthcare
Why It Matters:Strong networks of Black healthcare leaders are essential to increasing psychological safety for practitioners and professionals, reducing disparities, and transforming care. This event fosters mentorship, idea-sharing, and resource building—all while nurturing the spirit of community and care.
Who Should Attend: Black women-identifying nurses, doctors, therapists, midwives, administrators, community health workers, public health professionals, and anyone leading or supporting care delivery.
Click HERE to secure your spot.
What We Carry: Black Mothers, Mental Health & Intergeneration Healing
WHAT WE CARRY: A Live Community Conversation
Hosted by: The Black Girl Health Collective x The Zora Neale Hurston Trust
What do we carry in our bodies, our memories, our lineages? What do we carry alone, and what do we carry together?
Join us for "What We Carry," a powerful live conversation at the intersection of Black women’s mental health, healing, and legacy.
We’re bringing together the voices of Black women whose leadership and work are deeply connected to these conversations. Together, we’ll engage in dialogue that offers deep reflection and insight, while weaving in how those same themes show up in Zora Neale Hurston’s life and writings.
✨ The emotional weight of Black motherhood.
✨ What has been passed down?
✨ Community care as resistance.
✨ What stories do we still need to say out loud?
🗓️ June 20th, 2025
⏰ 1:30 PM ET
📍Live on Instagram/YT/FB
🎙️ Featuring:
Dr. Donna Oriowo, LICSW, M.ED,
Dr. Loree Johnson, PhD, LMFT
& Dr. Ayanna Abrams PsyD
CLICK HERE TO WATCH LIVE
The Cure: Winedown-Summer Edit
Searching for a safe space to vibe, reflect, have fun, and chat about ALL the things? ✨💬
Want to connect, build adult friendships, and find community? ❤️🔥🤝
We're holding space for all the things...
Join us for The Cure: Wine Down on Wednesday, May 21st— 💛🎉
Bring your favorite wine 🍷, a charcuterie board 🧀🥖, or just yourself. Let's vibe together with music 🎶, good energy 🌟, and real conversations. 💕🔥
💡 Save the date 📅, and we’ll see you there! 🎉✨
REGISTER NOW
#bghc #bghcthecure #thecure #welistenwedontjudge
Community Listening Session-All Things Healthcare!
We’re hosting a Community Listening Session to co-create a training curriculum for organizations providing care to our communities navigating healthcare and treatment programs.
🗣️ This is your chance to share:
What matters most to you in care spaces?
What have your experiences been (good, bad, harmful)?
What do you hope to see and experience?
✨ Your voice matters. Your stories matter.
📍 Join us in community and collaboration.
The Pole For Your Soul
Movement is essential—for the body, mind, and soul.
Join us on April 2nd for a special community session with Malaysia the incredible founder of Mind Body & Pole founder. Together, we’ll hear more about her journey and explore the power of movement, community, and self-expression — while celebrating what makes us unstoppable.
This is your chance to connect, find new ways to explore movement, and rediscover your strength within community. Don't miss it!
When: April 2nd 5:00 PM ET
Where: IG LIVE session
Lock in the time and share with your networks ! We can’t wait to see you there!
#MindBodyAndPole #BGHCCommunity #MovementIsEssential #PoleFitness #WellnessJourney
Mental Health First Aid Training
Virtual Training Dates Options:
March 28th | 10 AM-3 PM ET
April 11th | 10 AM-3 PM ET
Are you ready to be a support and make an impact?
Join our Mental Health First Aider Training to learn how to support loved ones and community members during mental health or substance-related crises.
What You’ll Gain:
Strategies for crisis & non-crisis situations
Insight on finding help and resources
Confidence — and a certificate to amplify your credentials!
Whether you’re a parent, friend, community leader, caregiver , or mental health advocate , this training is open to all!
Heart II Heart
A peer space for community members navigating caregiving, providing direct support and or assistance to loved ones and family members.
Hey Cysta, Cysta Peer Group
A monthly peer space for community members navigating Poly-Cystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS), to meet to find support, build relationships, and learn.
Let’s Talk About PrEP, Baby! Protecting Black Women’s Health
Mark your calendars!
Calling all Black women! 👩🏾👩🏽 Join our virtual workshop designed to equip YOU with the knowledge, tools, and resources to take charge of your health and wellness. Let’s chat about the transformative power of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) and address the unique challenges we face— while celebrating our culture, beauty and strength.🌟
Here’s what we’ll cover:
💡 HIV basics and its impact on Black communities
💡 How PrEP works and why it’s a game-changer for us
💡 Busting myths and misconceptions about PrEP
💡 Tips to prepare for your first PrEP consultation
🎤 Facilitated by the incredible Mystkue Woods (@mystkue), a certified sexuality arts educator, consultant, and CEO of Mystkue Publications, L.L.C. With years of experience empowering underserved communities, Mystkue is the creator of #BlackWomenPrEPToo, a campaign breaking down stigma and empowering women to take control of their sexual health. 🖤
📅Don’t miss this fun, insightful, and impactful session! Let’s come together to prioritize our health and wellness.
Multiple Sclerosis Community Session
Thursday, Jan 16th 2025 6:30 PM ET
Join us for a transparent conversation with Melissa T., founder of theWorks Nail Studio, as she shares her incredible story of navigating motherhood, entrepreneurship, and life with multiple sclerosis
Whether you're seeking community, a ke ke or to learn more, make sure you join us.
When: January 16th at 6:30pm
Missed our live session? Click to watch below
The CURE: Wind Down (virtual)
Bring your favorite wine 🍷, a charcuterie board 🧀🥖, or just yourself. Let's vibe together with music 🎶, good energy 🌟, and real convos. 💕🔥
Searching for a safe space to vibe, reflect, have fun, and chat about ALL the things? ✨💬
Want to connect, build adult friendships, and find community? ❤️🔥🤝
We're holding space for Black women to take a collective breath, just be and take up all the space...
💡 Save the date 📅, and we’ll see you there! 🎉✨
#bghc #bghcthecure #thecure #welistenwedontjudge
Radical Self Love Hike
We’re joining forces with Black Girls Hike Too! to create an experience that celebrates YOU!
Have you ever wanted to hike but let doubt get in the way? Then this is where you need to be! We're centering community, inclusivity, and accessibility!
Our guided trek is for those interested in exploring RADICAL SELF LOVE, and is designed to accommodate beginners, individuals with larger bodies, and those with differing abilities that may need some extra supports. WE GOT YOU!
Join us for a safe, supportive, and judgment-free space to connect with nature and community.
Accessibility Features:
* Gentle, well-maintained trails with minimal elevation
* Frequent rest stops and portable seating if desired*
* Trained guides and volunteers to provide assistance and support
* Accessible parking and transportation options available. Need a ride? Let us know!
Our Vibes:
* Leave the negative self talk behind and be present and in community.
* Enjoy a pace that's comfortable for you, with no pressure. .
Community Convo:
We’ll discuss the concept of Radical Self Love and what that can look like for you.
We will also have a brief chat about mindfulness, and maybe explore an exercise or two.
Our Movement:
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Let’s Talk About Sex: L.A.C.E Workshop (Liberated, Aware, Connected and Empowered)
Delve into the circles of sexuality, pleasure activism and take control of your pleasure and intimacy.
BGHC’s Guide to, “Where the money resides.”
This workshop will share practical strategies for navigating the complex world of non-profit funding.
Allison Smith, a seasoned leader in fundraising and development, will share how to identify diverse potential funding sources, how to develop compelling grant proposals, and build relationships with community partners to expand your organizations reach.
Attendees will leave with actionable strategies and a greater understanding of the funding landscape at the national and state level. They also will receive recommendations for tools and resources that aid in securing the financial support needed to grow and sustain their organizations achieve their mission.
BGHC: Reset Wednesdays
Reset your mind and body with our weekly RESET WEDNESDAYS!!!🕕🙌🏽💁🏽♀️🙋🏽♀️💃🏽
Whether you prefer gentle yoga and meditation 🧘🏾♀️or a chill but energizing DJ mix 💿, we've got just what you need to recharge and rejuvenate midweek.
Don't miss out on this opportunity to center yourself, soothe your nervous system and start the second half of your week feeling refreshed and grounded. We can’t wait to see you there!"
Partners and Community: Advocacy in Black Maternal Health
Partners and Community: Advocacy in Black Maternal Health: Join us for a panel with LaToya Brathwaite, Lindsay Griffin LCSW, and Dr. Lucinda Canty PhD, CNM, FACNM, as they discuss our support systems roles in maternal health.
Why Black Maternal Health Week?
Why Black Maternal Health Week? Join us for a LIVE Community Session, with LaToya Brathwaite, FNP where she discusses the origin and the reason why having a Black Maternal Health Week is necessary.
BGHC: Reset Wednesdays
Reset your mind and body with our weekly RESET WEDNESDAYS!!!🕕🙌🏽💁🏽♀️🙋🏽♀️💃🏽
Whether you prefer gentle yoga and meditation 🧘🏾♀️or a chill but energizing DJ mix 💿, we've got just what you need to recharge and rejuvenate midweek.
Don't miss out on this opportunity to center yourself, soothe your nervous system and start the second half of your week feeling refreshed and grounded. We can’t wait to see you there!"
BGHC: Reset Wednesdays
Reset your mind and body with our weekly RESET WEDNESDAYS!!!🕕🙌🏽💁🏽♀️🙋🏽♀️💃🏽
Whether you prefer gentle yoga and meditation 🧘🏾♀️or a chill but energizing DJ mix 💿, we've got just what you need to recharge and rejuvenate midweek.
Don't miss out on this opportunity to center yourself, soothe your nervous system and start the second half of your week feeling refreshed and grounded. We can’t wait to see you there!"
The Loom Session
Join us for a live session with Brittany Whatley BSN-RN, where we have a conversation about the perspective of Black nurses & the importance of representation in emergency and trauma care.