NO MORE MARTYRS
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Mission Statement
The Black Women’s Mental Health Institute is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to building awareness of and support for the mental and holistic wellbeing of Black women and girls.
About This Cause
Our History: The Black Women's Mental Health Institute (BWMHI) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building awareness of and support for the mental and holistic wellbeing of Black women and girls. We are founded and headquartered in historic Birmingham, Alabama. We became a registered nonprofit organization through the Secretary of State of Alabama in 2015 under the registered name of No More Martyrs. We served under the fiscal sponsorship of the Children's Policy Council of Jefferson County until we received our Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 501(c)(3) status from the Department of Treasury Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in 2021. What We Do: We Inform - The BWMHI disrupts traditional clinician curriculum by training mental health professionals in diverse topics that equip them to provide culturally responsive care that centers justice and equity. We Advocate - The BWMHI works with inform policymakers and the public to bolster their understanding and response to the Black women and girls with mental health concerns. We center the voices of Black women and girls to ensure their concerns, thoughts and visions drive the work. We Build Coalitions - The BWMHI brings together groups of committed individuals, communities and organizations to develop better practices and quality programs. We Alleviate Financial Barriers to Care - The BWMHI alleviates financial barriers to care by providing free, culturally responsive mental health care. We Advance - The BWMHI advances the field of mental health by increasing the number of Black licensed clinicians through our internship program. Our Commitment to Justice: The Black Women's Mental Health Institute takes a social justice, disruptive justice and healing justice approach to mental health care. Social justice, as defined by the Connecticut State University’s John Lewis Institute for Social Justice, “is a communal effort dedicated to creating and sustaining a fair and equal society in which each person and all groups are valued and affirmed”. It centers equality and strives for fairness. Disruptive justice, a term coined by Dr. Richardson herself, focuses on the creation of an equitable society that protects human rights and human dignity by dismantling the systems of inequity that threaten them. It centers equity and strives for liberation. Healing justice is a term coined by the movement building organization, Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective. It is a “political strategy to intervene and respond on generational trauma and systemic oppression, and build community/survivor led responses rooted in southern traditions of resilience to sustain our emotional/physical/spiritual/psychic and environmental well being”. It centers collective resilience and honors ancestral wisdom. Research conducted by the American Psychological Association (APA) has found that culturally responsive mental health care can increase treatment engagement and reduce treatment drop-out. Culturally incompetent mental health care can perpetuate systemic barriers to mental healthcare for Black. Psychological difficulties are more prevalent in Black communities due to a lack of culturally appropriate and responsive mental health care, prejudice and racism inherent in their daily environments, and historical trauma that medical professionals have perpetrated on Black people. By encouraging culturally responsive mental health care, our organization is using evidence-based best practices to center justice and increase utilization of mental health services in Black clients.