Our Mission
Our mission is to remove the barriers that Black people experience getting access to or staying connected with emotional health care and healing through education, training, advocacy, and the creative arts.
Our Work
BEAM builds eco-systems of care for Black and exploited communities. We train, fund and resource alternative wellness and care systems through a network of therapists, healers, wellness practitioners and community leaders across the world. We center our work around a healing justice framework. Healing justice is a framework, developed by Cara Page and the Kindred Healing Justice Collective, that identifies how we can intervene and holistically respond to generational trauma and violence.
BEAM is a national organization with a network across the United States. We have in-person monthly healing circles in our hub cities (Los Angeles & Atlanta) and coordinate with our network to provide funding, events, and in-person trainings in cities across the country.
Dive Deeper into Healing Justice
Explore these great articles about Healing Justice.
Bon Appetit
What It Means to Center “Healing Justice” in Wellness
Essence
This is What Healing Justice Looks Like
Good Morning America
What is 'Healing Justice'?
The Huffington Post
Why Black Mental Health Literacy Matters
What We Believe
There is not just one strategy for healing, you can build up your toolbox for your wellness. That toolbox may include therapy, coloring books, music, yoga, dance, or gardening. Wellness is a spectrum, and we can build our own strategies for healing.
Black wellness and healing work can only progress if this work is done while addressing economic reform, inequities in the criminal legal system, HIV/AIDS, transphobia, homophobia, racism, misogynoir, reproductive justice, intimate partner violence, and other issues that challenge the wellness of Black communities.
Dismantling the systems that dehumanize Black people in America is a long-term project. In the face of this, we must create community-based systems of care that help alleviate the harm and trauma for present and future generations.
These community-based systems of care must integrate into current practices in Black life and build upon current traditions and norms in Black communities in order to be sustainable.
Donate
Your gift helps sustain our important work of building a world where there are no barriers to Black healing.
Partner With Us
BEAM is committed to working with foundations, community organizations, and other groups to develop meaningful projects that center Black healing and wellness.
