Black Mental Wellness Workshops & Program
July 15, 2026
This interactive panel will explore the unique challenges faced by helping professionals and caregivers, particularly within Black communities where cultural expectations, systemic inequities, and the pressure to remain strong often create additional barriers to self-care and healing. Panelists will share practical strategies for recognizing early signs of burnout, establishing healthy boundaries, fostering resilience, and creating sustainable practices that support long-term well-being.
Learning objectives:
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
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Identify common signs and contributing factors of burnout, compassion fatigue, and chronic stress among caregivers and helping professionals.
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Describe how cultural expectations, systemic stressors, and workplace demands can influence mental wellness, particularly within Black communities.
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Apply practical strategies for establishing healthy boundaries, building resilience, and integrating sustainable self-care into daily professional and personal routines.
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Develop an individualized wellness plan that prioritizes mental health while supporting long-term effectiveness in helping roles.
Continuing Education is Available!
1.0 hours of continuing education is available. Black Mental Wellness is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Black Mental Wellness maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
July 21, 2026
Returning to the community after incarceration often involves navigating significant challenges that can impact mental health, stability, and long-term success. Many formerly incarcerated individuals experience mental health concerns, substance use, and chronic stress while also navigating barriers such as limited access to behavioral health services, housing instability, unemployment, and fragmented systems of care. When left unaddressed, these challenges can increase the risk of recidivism.
Freedom to Heal: Improving Mental Health Access and Reducing Recidivism Through Community Support and Healing, explores the critical intersection of mental health. community reintegration, and justice involvement. Through an engaging discussion, panelists will identify some of the most common mental health concerns experienced by returning citizens, identify barriers to accessing quality mental health care while under community supervision, and discuss how untreated mental health conditions can influence compliance with parole or probation requirements and increase the likelihood of recidivism.
Learning objectives:
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
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Identify common mental health concerns experienced by returning citizens.
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Describe systemic, social, and individual barriers that limit access to mental health services for justice-involved indivuals, and may increase the risk of recidivism.
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Identify strategies to improve access to behavioral health services and support successful reentry outcomes to promote healing, resilience, and long-term mental wellness among formerly incarcerated individuals.
Continuing Education is Available!
1.0 hours of continuing education is available. Black Mental Wellness is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Black Mental Wellness maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Previous Programs
Series Dates: June 23, June 30, and July 7
Black Mental Wellness, Corp. in partnership with BlackFULLness presents, Brother to Brother: Healing Across Generations. This workshop is part of a series that will provide a courageous and supportive space for Black men to engage in authentic conversations about mental wellness, healing, masculinity, stress, purpose, and legacy.
Whether you’re struggling silently or advocating for others, we invite you to be part of this essential conversation.
About BlackFULLness:
BlackFULLness offers culturally rooted practices that restore peace, reduce stress, and reconnect us to joy. This is how we thrive - softly, boldly, and fully.
BlackFULLness is supporting our mission at Black Mental Wellness through an ongoing partnership that will allow us to collectively provide access and exposure to the BlackFULLness app.
"You Good, Bro?"Brother to Brother
A Discussion on Black Men and
Mental Health
This powerful virtual conversation as part of the Brother to Brother series, brought together Black male educators, mental health professionals, and community leaders to reflect on the current moment. This discussion addressed current events that impact the mental health of Black men personally, professionally, and across generations.
This isn’t just a check-in. It’s a collective moment of truth, healing, and connection. Whether you’re struggling silently or advocating for others, we invite you to be part of this essential conversation.
