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BLACK WELL-BEING REPORT 2022
Address family and community, not just the individual
The focus on the individual, the family, and the community is critical to
Black well-being. We are connected. We are both individuals and part of a
broader collective.
• Ask about family and community dynamics and history
beyond physical manifestations of sickness and disease.
• Build provider knowledge of family resources that are
culturally appropriate.
• Conduct comprehensive family assessments that include
the unified expertise of multiple providers — traditional
and not.
• Provide culturally responsive, community-designed
resources for relationship health.
• Provide incentives to implement systemwide
comprehensive approaches to integrated, holistic care.
• Invest in Black behavioral health centers that include a
focus on relationship health.
Reflect well-being in employer business models and policies
Black-led organizations are beginning to prioritize our well-being over what
we can produce for an employer, our community, and even our own families.
Build and implement operational models and practices that produce healing,
rather than constantly working to heal from systems that continue to
harm us.
• Rest. Get support to rest. Support each other in taking
turns to rest.
• Shift employer business models to offer rest and adequate
pay, such as 4-day work weeks, flexible schedules,
additional paid parental leave, and capped salary ratios.
• Implement new leadership models that build in shared
power, support, and rest.
• Offer sabbaticals and respite programs for Black leaders,
particularly women.
• Implement some version of guaranteed basic income.
• Increase the length of parental leave in policies.
• Stop incentivizing “grind” culture directly and indirectly.
Overworking is not cute.
Thank you for spending time with this report. Throughout
the process there were so many questions we asked, but
couldn’t yet answer. As a community, we have data to collect,
discussions to hold, and connections to make. We hope you are
activated by the approaches identified and the data presented.
To support collective action, please access the simple
discussion guide on our website. Use it to elevate to our
collaborations and organizing statewide, and in doing so, work
in ways that manifest Black well-being.
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