Center for Black Family Wellness

Definition | Programs and Initiatives | CBFW Advisory Board Information

Definition:

The Center for Black Family Wellness focuses on developing programs and services responsive to health disparities within the Black community (i.e. HIV/AIDS, Diabetes, Cancer, Hypertension, Suicide, Homicide, Teenage Pregnancy, etc.). Wellness is a term CEO Evans adopted to expand the approach to addressing health disparities to be inclusive of ten essential parts of the human being experience: intellectual, physical, mental, spiritual, sexual, educational, emotional, political, financial and social. The primary focus is to develop programs separately and collectively that approach building and improving the Black Family infrastructure, not from an American "family" model, but African centered model that includes neighbors, community organizations and members, faith based institutions, etc.

Programs and Initiatives:

National Black Wellness Week is a new initiative to be announced by Healthy Black Communities, Inc. that will focus on a grassroots level to mobilize communities around health disparities disproportionately affecting their community. It also forges communities to develop response plans to health disparities they are most concerned about and are interested in championing locally and/or regionally. In addition, to host recognition ceremonies for family and community members whose individual contributions to make their family and community better everyday are not honored.

CBFW Advisory Board Information:

The Center for Black Family Wellness shall have an advisory board of no more than twenty-five members from communities within the United States experiencing disproportionate representation in the top ten health disparities as identified by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, with one HBC board member serving as the chairperson.

This advisory board shall provide guidance and feedback regarding wellness programs and initiatives developed by the organization. This body shall adhere to the by-laws, policies and procedures of Healthy Black Communities, Inc.

Would you like to be a member of the Center for Black Family Wellness' Advisory Board? Just email your resume to cbfwadvisors@healthyblackcommunities.org and someone will contact you to discuss your interests.

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