Know Your Rights: Advocating for Yourself in Healthcare

Navigating the healthcare system can feel overwhelming, especially when you're unsure of your rights or how to speak up when something doesn't feel right. Join us for an interactive community workshop designed to help you better understand your rights as a patient, communicate effectively with healthcare providers, and advocate for yourself and your family with confidence.

Led by attorney Zuneera Masood, Esq. and healthcare leader Brittany Williams, MPA, MHA, this session will explore practical tools for asking questions, documenting concerns, navigating challenging healthcare experiences, and recognizing when bias or discrimination may be impacting your care.

Whether you're managing your own health, supporting a loved one, or simply want to feel more empowered in medical settings, you'll leave with information, resources, and strategies to help ensure your voice is heard and respected.

Free and open to the community. Registration is encouraged.

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Join us for a community-centered day of conversation, connection, and care in Downtown Milford.

This experience brings together local voices across women’s health, mental and emotional wellness, and whole-person healing for a morning rooted in learning, reflection, and real dialogue. Through a series of conversations and shared moments, we’ll explore what it means to care for ourselves across every stage of life.

The day will include:

• Conversations on cervical health, preventative care, and navigating available resources
• Dialogue on mental and emotional wellness, confidence, and the whole woman
• A guided movement moment to help us reset and reconnect
• Space to gather, share a meal, and build community

We’ll close out the day with a wellness marketplace featuring local practitioners and organizations offering resources across physical health, hormonal health, mental health, and holistic care, creating an opportunity to connect directly with support in our community.

This is a space to learn, ask questions, and be in community. Come as you are. Bring a friend. Leave with new information, new connections, and a deeper sense of what care can look like for you.

Join us for our Community Crew, Black Women in Bloom’s Sisters in the Pause: Real Talk on Perimenopause & Beyond, where perimenopause and menopause get the real talk they deserve. Facilitated by Nicole W. and Tasha Bee, this is a space to laugh, learn, vent, swap stories, and finally say the things we’ve been side-eyeing in silence.

Come as you are. Bring your questions, your stories, and maybe a fan.

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The Leadership After Disruption Institute is a guided space for Black women navigating career shifts, burnout, layoffs, or reimagining what’s next, and we have 5 sessions left for this half of the program.

This upcoming session, Confidence Restoration, Transferable Skills, and Career Narrative Strategy: You Are Not Starting Over, is about helping you reconnect to your experience and translate it into what’s next. Together, we’ll identify your transferable skills, map your impact across roles and industries, and rebuild confidence through evidence-based reflection.

You’ll leave with greater clarity on your value and a stronger, more grounded way to communicate it.

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What’s been irking you? What’s filling your cup?

Join us on May 13 for The Cure Winedown. Bring your drink of choice, wine, tea, or water, your favorite snackies, and tap in. This is your space to decompress, connect, and be real in community. And yes, there’s room for a little “talk shit” too… Klay Playa, is that you?

Everyone who attends will be entered into a raffle for a book and or a curated swag bag. Come as you are. We’ll hold the space.

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A monthly community space for Black women navigating perimenopause, menopause, and the seasons in between.

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A practical, hands on training to help you recognize, understand, and respond to mental health challenges in your community. Build the skills and confidence to show up, support others, and connect people to care when it matters most.

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Join us for an evening of mocktails, small bites, and open conversation to learn more about cervical health and HPV screenings.

The Black Girl Health Collective, in collaboration with The Dover Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Karrington Healthcare, and the Epsilon Alpha Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. at Delaware State University, invites the community to an evening of conversation, connection, and care.

Pull up for an evening of connection, conversation, and community care. Enjoy mocktails, small bites, and fun activations while learning more about cervical health in a relaxed and welcoming space.

Throughout the evening, attendees will have the opportunity to:

• Learn about cervical health and HPV• Complete a free HPV self-collection screening• Connect with trusted community health partners• Enjoy mocktails and small bites• Participate in fun activations designed to spark conversation and connection

Our goal is simple: to create a space where talking about cervical health feels comfortable, supportive, and rooted in community.

Bring a friend and join us for an evening centered on you.

📅 April 16📍 Early Childhood Innovation Center (formerly Grossley Hall)Delaware State University

Open to the community.

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Overview

An intimate workshop reimagining Black motherhood through healing, truth telling, and collective liberation.

Emancipating Black Motherhood, Part II of the Free Black Motherhood series

Part II continues and deepens the conversation we began together. In this session, we’ll explore how our experiences, stories, and environments continue to shape Black motherhood in real time.

This is an interactive workshop grounded in guided dialogue and reflection. It is a space for honesty, connection, and collective reimagining. Together, we’ll reflect on what we’ve been holding, what we’ve started to question, and what it might look like to move differently. We’ll name what no longer serves us, reclaim what does, and begin imagining new ways of mothering that feel more aligned, supported, and true to us.

You may leave with new language. You will leave with new questions.

How would you mother if you truly believed you were free?

If you’re ready to explore that question in community, we invite you to join us.

Spots are limited.

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They Lost the Wrong One

Career disruption is more than a job change. It can shake how you see yourself and your value.
This session is about coming back to yourself after disruption. We’ll unpack what happened, name what you still carry, and begin rebuilding your professional identity with honesty and strategy. You’ll leave with language for your story, clarity about your strengths, and a renewed sense of direction.

What You’ll Walk Away With

• A reframed career story that positions your job loss as leadership, not failure

• A clear, confident way to explain employment gaps in interviews and networking conversations

• A list of your transferable skills and strengths you can immediately use in your next role or pivot

• A personal narrative statement you can plug into your resume, LinkedIn, or elevator pitch

• A self-trust reset framework to help you move forward without second-guessing yourself

• Language to advocate for your value in professional spaces again

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Black Women in Bloom is a virtual monthly peer space, facilitated by Tasha Bee, is for Black women navigating perimenopause, menopause, and the all the seasons in between to connect, find support, build relationships, and learn together. We’ll also have guest speakers and resources along the way.

If you’ve been craving real community, relationships, and real talk this is the spot.

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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.

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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.”

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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#ResetWednesdays #BlackGirlHealthCollective #MidweekReset #BlackWomenWellness #RestIsResistance #CommunityCare

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
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#BeSeenBeScreenedAndSafe #BGHC #SisterCircles #CommunityCare #BlackWomensHealth #CollectiveHealing

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.

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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.

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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

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

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.

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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! 

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#MindBodyAndPole #BGHCCommunity #MovementIsEssential #PoleFitness #WellnessJourney

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!

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A peer space for community members navigating caregiving, providing direct support and or assistance to loved ones and family members.

A monthly peer space for community members navigating Poly-Cystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS), to meet to find support, build relationships, and learn.

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.