Fostering Black Wellness in Montreal.

Community Centered Knowledges: fostering Black wellness in Montreal is a SSHRC funded community-university research project where primarily Black thinkers, organizers, and people with lived experience come together and think, do, and invent sustainable, race-aware, equitable community-level responses to the wellness needs of Montreal’s Black community.

The project aims to achieve four objectives: 

(1) to understand how members of diverse Black communities in Montreal describe themselves; 

(2) to understand and address the impacts of intersectional anti-Black racism on Montreal's Black communities and the ways wellness plays a part; 

(3) to identify and articulate how Black-serving organisations in Montreal respond to the diverse wellness needs of Black communities; and 

(4) to mobilise and disseminate approaches to racial and healing justice and wellness rooted in the knowledges of Montreal's Black communities.