About Us

Community-Centred Knowledges: Fostering Black Wellness in Montreal is an SSHRC-funded collaboration that brings together, primarily, Black thinkers, organizers, and individuals with lived experience. This community–university research project focuses on creating sustainable, race-aware, and equitable solutions to address the wellness and mental health needs of Montreal’s Black communities.

The project aims to achieve four objectives:

(1) to understand how members of diverse Black communities in Montreal describe themselves, their identities, and their experiences of belonging and wellness;

(2) to understand and address the impacts of intersectional anti-Black racism on Black mental health and overall wellness in Montreal, and the ways community-based healing practices play a role;

(3) to identify and articulate how Black-serving organizations in Montreal respond to the diverse wellness and mental health needs of Black communities across the city;

(4) to mobilize and disseminate approaches to racial justice, healing justice, and Black wellness rooted in the knowledges, lived experiences, and community care practices of Montreal's Black communities, contributing to broader conversations across Canada.