Black Women for Wellness is committed to healing, educating, inspiring, and supporting Black women, so we may tap our personal power to enhance and improve our health and well being. Black Women for Wellness defines good health as more than mere absence of disease, but the ability to grow, to soar, to use our strength, our power as women, our beauty, our intelligence uninhibited to the fullest extent for the pursuit of healthy lives, families and communities. Black Women for Wellness believes in preventing illness through education, self-empowerment, access, appropriate treatments and interventions, blending solutions that work for us, no matter our lifestyles, financial or educational status. Black Women for Wellness defines good health as physical, spiritual, emotional, mental, and financial well-being. We also believe good health requires a blending of western medicine with traditional and natural healers to create a balanced life.

Black Women for Wellness is committed to healing, educating, and supporting Black Women!

Black Women for Wellness started as sisterfriends with the Birthing Project in Los Angeles in 1994.  We began as a group of women concerned about the health and well-being of our babies.

As grandmothers, mothers, aunties, daughters, and sisterfriends, we found we had no choice but to take on the plethora of health issues Black women encounter.

As a non-profit, Black Women for Wellness is able to seek funding and accept donations to support our programs.  BWW is a nonprofit corporation under Section 501 (c) (3) Revenue Code.  Financial Contributors to BWW are tax deductible.

Black Women for Wellness is a multi-generational, membership-based organization committed to the well being of Black women and girls by building healthy communities through health education, empowerment and advocacy.

Black Women for Wellness’ Philosophy

• Black Women for Wellness believes in preventing illness through education, self-empowerment, mutual support, rites of passage, and celebrations based on traditions created by Africans around the world.
• Black Women for Wellness is building a healthy community by looking within to cultivate motivation, strength, and dedication.
• Black Women for Wellness works to end the historical patterns and practices of institutional racism and dangerous lifestyle patterns that perpetuate illness and disease in our communities.
• Black Women for Wellness consciously made a decision to use the term Black, we use and define Black women as an inclusive term, for all women of African descent, whether born in the United States, in the Caribbean, Europe, on the continent of Africa or in the Pacific Islands.  So when you read and see Black Women on this website, be included!

Black Women for Wellness’ Purpose

• Gathering and sharing research on the history and current challenges and issues of Black Women’s health.
• Training speakers for panel discussions, academic lectures and organizational programs on all aspects of Black Women’s health.
• Providing health education and information on strategies to prevent illness, maintain and restore health.
• Referring women to culturally sensitive health providers and counseling services.
• Advocating for African women’s health through memberships on boards, commisions & task forces and publishing information and education on from our perspective.

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