Healthy Black Families Inc.

Healthy Black Families Inc. Healthy Black Families - People, Programs, Policy Welcome to Healthy Black Families, Inc. We can help you to have a healthy baby.

About Us

If you are black and pregnant or have just had a baby, HBF is here to support you. HBF will connect you with the Black Infant Health program and the Sisters Together Empowering Peers program. (Click on our Programs button for more information). HBF invites you and your family to be a part of educational programs and celebrations throughout the year (Click on our Calendar and/or events button to see events and activities). Our Vision

The VISION is Organizing individuals, families, and the organizations that serve them into a learning community empowered with skills to advance social equity and justice, with a focus on Black individuals and families. Our Mission

Providing people with knowledge, skills, and strategies to make social systems and policies more equitable to support Black people and communities. Who We Are

Healthy Black Families is a leader within a worldwide movement dedicated to advancing social equity for communities of color. We are known for our unshakeable advocacy for Black people and communities. Our Focus

To ensure that people and communities are respected and have their basic needs met so each person has an opportunity to develop their full potential. Core Values

Human dignity – We are conscious of and actively support the basic right of every human being to have respect and to have their basic needs met. Health/Healing – We promote the wisdom of mind and body soundness that flows from meeting spiritual, emotional, and physical needs through self-awareness and preventive discipline. This includes an understanding that knowledge of self allows for the maintenance of internal balance that promotes positive feelings. Community - We foster depth and commitment as we engage people individually and in groups so that both independent creativity and interdependent cooperation are maximized. Expressiveness/Joy – We create spaces that allow people and communities to express self openly engendering cooperation and stimulating thoughts and imaginations. Through these methods, we encourage open expression of ideas and opinions to bring conflicts into the open and resolve disagreements collaboratively. Efficiency/Planning – We think about and design systems, acts, and purposes in an efficient manner before implementing them. Accountability/Ethics – We make values and beliefs explicit as a basis for honest and ethical behavior. We encourage others to be aware of their values as well as the alignment (or misalignment) between community values and organizational policies. Corporation/Stewardship - We initiate and manage the organization to accomplish its goals and mission in alignment with defined values. Healthy Black Families- People, Programs, Policy

Have you ever walked past the sculpture near Ashby BART at MLK Jr. Way and Adeline and wondered what it means?If not, al...
03/17/2026

Have you ever walked past the sculpture near Ashby BART at MLK Jr. Way and Adeline and wondered what it means?

If not, allow a moment to pause and reflect on the story behind it.

The piece, Delivered, Mable's Promissory Note, created by Berkeley artist Mildred Howard, honors her mother Mable Howard--a powerful community activitist who fought in the 1960s to ensure the BART line was placed underground instead of cutting through and dividing South Berkeley's Black neighborhood.

For us, this sculpture represents more than public art. It refects the strength, resilience, and cultural legacy of Berkeley's African American community-- a comunity that has continued to fight for presence even as gentrification and displacement reshape the neighborhood.

We see our work as part of that ongoing legacy. Every day we work alongside families and community partners to advance Black equity, housing instability, and community power in Berkeley.

So the next time you pass this monument, entering or leaving South Berkeley, we hope you're reminded that it stands as more than art or a space saver.

It's a tribute from a women to honor her mother's activism and community partnership to protect this community--and a reminder that the work continues.

If you'd like to do your part...tap in with us here or visit our website www.healthyblackfam.org

Women have long shaped the fight for justice in Berkeley—and their work continues.This Women’s History Month, we honor t...
03/14/2026

Women have long shaped the fight for justice in Berkeley—and their work continues.

This Women’s History Month, we honor the lasting impact of leaders like Maudelle Miller Shirek, Carolle Kennerly, Mildred Howard, Tarea Hall Pittman, and Barbara White, whose advocacy helped protect community voices and advance equity.

Inspired by their legacy, community partnerships with , along with engaged and intentional community members, gathered to participate in focus groups and community data collection centered on housing equity. This work honors the time, commitment, and dedication these women invested throughout their lives to ensure that future generations could continue building a more just and inclusive community—and benefit from that progress.

Their legacy lives on through the continued work of residents who organize, participate, and make their voices heard.

The legacy continues—through action, participation, and collective voice.

📢 Your Voice Matters. Your Story Matters. The Wisdom lives closeest to the experience-Wilhelmenia WilsonThe Alameda Coun...
03/14/2026

📢 Your Voice Matters. Your Story Matters.

The Wisdom lives closeest to the experience-Wilhelmenia Wilson

The Alameda County Reparations Commission is hosting a Community Listening Session focused on Education, and we need to hear directly from YOU.

This is an opportunity for community members to share lived experiences, insights, and ideas that will help shape reparative policies and educational equity for future generations.

🗓 Saturday, March 14, 2026
⏰ 3:30 PM – 6:00 PM
📍 Berkeley Unified School District Board Room
2020 Bonar St, Berkeley

Opening remarks by Ka’dijah Brown, Berkeley Unified School District Board Director.

✨ Open to the public
🍽 Free food & beverages provided

Your voice is critical in helping guide policies that impact our communities. Join us in this important conversation and be part of shaping the future.

🔗 RSVP using the QR code in the flyer

03/14/2026
The room was full of powerful voices and purposeful dialogue.Through focus groups and active participation, community me...
03/13/2026

The room was full of powerful voices and purposeful dialogue.

Through focus groups and active participation, community members helped collect the insights needed to the upcoming development. For more information on this project and how to keep in touch, visit our website www.healthyblackfam.org/e4bb

Community voices in action. ✊🏾Last week's gathering brought neighbors together for focus groups, meaningful dialogue, an...
03/13/2026

Community voices in action. ✊🏾

Last week's gathering brought neighbors together for focus groups, meaningful dialogue, and community-led data collection to ensure equity in the future of South Berkeley.

Belief builds confidence.Confidence builds futures.Drop a 💛 if you’re raising greatness.Let’s build together.
03/02/2026

Belief builds confidence.
Confidence builds futures.

Drop a 💛 if you’re raising greatness.

Let’s build together.

Self-care is not selfish. It’s necessary. 💛We're halfway through the week, if you haven't already-what’s one thing you’r...
02/25/2026

Self-care is not selfish. It’s necessary. 💛

We're halfway through the week, if you haven't already-
what’s one thing you’re doing for yourself this week?

Our motherhood circle could be one of the ways you keep accountable of your self-care.

🗓 Every 3rd Monday @ 5PM
🔗 tinyurl.com/STEPCircle26

Thank you to everyone that came to our booth and supported, whether it was a sticker, tote bag, water bottle, book, or o...
02/24/2026

Thank you to everyone that came to our booth and supported, whether it was a sticker, tote bag, water bottle, book, or our “Black Mixed with Black” T-shirts that will be restocked soon. We are grateful!

is an experience that can’t exactly be explained, but you know, when you experience it. had an amazing time.
02/24/2026

is an experience that can’t exactly be explained, but you know, when you experience it. had an amazing time.

🚨 TODAY’S THE DAY, BERKELEY! 🚨The Village Celebration is happening TONIGHT at 6 PM!🎤 School Yard Rap performs LIVE📍 Malc...
02/24/2026

🚨 TODAY’S THE DAY, BERKELEY! 🚨

The Village Celebration is happening TONIGHT at 6 PM!

🎤 School Yard Rap performs LIVE
📍 Malcolm X Elementary
📍 1731 Prince St, Berkeley

Join us for an unforgettable evening bringing Black history to life through the power of hip-hop.

✨ Prizes + Giveaways
🍽 Food + Refreshments
🤝 Community Celebration

Bring your family. Bring your energy. Let’s pack the house!

See you at 6 PM!

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2927 Adeline Street
Berkeley, CA
94703

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+15102856689

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Welcome to Healthy Black Families, Inc. About Us If you are black and pregnant or have just had a baby, HBF is here to support you. We can help you to have a healthy baby. HBF will connect you with the Black Infant Health program and the Sisters Together Empowering Peers program. (Click on our Programs button for more information). HBF invites you and your family to be a part of educational programs and celebrations throughout the year (Click on our Calendar and/or events button to see events and activities). Our Vision The VISION of Healthy Black Families, Inc. is to bring about health equality for black babies and full health equity for all black children and families. A black child should have the same opportunities in life as any other child. To achieve this vision we believe we need to go beyond the traditional health care system. We know that maternal stress causes poor outcomes in our babies. HBF addresses the unique conditions in our lives based on the fact that we are black that cause additional stressors every day (housing insecurity, job insecurity, educational opportunities, discriminatory practices of the police, individual and institutional forms of racism, etc). HBF believes that we collectively have the capacity to change these conditions. Our Mission The MISSION of Healthy Black Families, Inc. is to support the growth and development of healthy black families and individuals. We achieve our mission by providing the black community with education, engagement and capacity building and supporting individual self-advocacy and empowerment. Healthy Black Families, Inc (HBF) formed as a non-profit organization in July 2013. However, since 2002 some of the individuals on the Board of Directors were on the Community Advisory Board of the Berkeley Black Infant Health (BIH), a program of the Berkeley Health Department. Currently HBF is dedicated to the success of two programs, both of which operate on the model of “kitchen table talks” (historically unique to the black community). The programs are: Berkeley Black Infant Health Sisters Together Empowering Peers Healthy Black Families, Inc. provides for the essential needs of program participants such as childcare, transportation vouchers and food incentives for meetings. Annually, HBF hosts various activities including, Mother’s Day celebration, Turkey Basket distribution, December Holiday gathering, February Black History Month Celebration and a Summer Barbeque. Cultural celebrations are critical to the social and spiritual unity of our black families and integrated into HBF programming. All of our programs are free, provide incentives for participation, provide childcare at the site of meetings when needed and other supportive things for families who participate (e.g. children’s clothing, new toys for celebrations, raffles based on participation, etc). We do all we can to make it possible for mothers and families to attend our activities.