The Black Neighborhood

“Building what we need, so others don’t have to go without.”

The Black Neighborhood exists to help Black people heal, grow, and thrive by building community-powered networks of wellness, education, joy, and leadership. It is both a response to harm and a declaration of future: wellness is not a luxury — it is a birthright. 

As many of us have witnessed and experienced, many Black communities live in a constant state of repair — always recovering from what was taken, denied, or underfunded. The Black Neighborhood steps into that story not just with charity, but with restoration — rebuilding the heart of what it means to belong, to be cared for, and to dream forward.

They are creating what previous generations were never given:

Places of safety, joy, nourishment, mentorship, mental care, and community rooted in love for Black people — not in crisis, but in possibility.

Their foundation is simple but revolutionary:

we don’t wait for systems to care — we become the care.

The Black Neighborhood centers around Black children, families, parents, and entire neighborhoods across the Bay Area — and now beyond — recognizing that when Black communities have structure, safety, and inspiration, healing multiplies generation to generation.

They are not just servicing needs — they are cultivating power.

What They Offer

1. Youth & Leadership Development

Scholarships, mentorship, and growth spaces designed specifically for young Black minds — not as a pipeline out of their community, but as leadership within it.

2. Mental Health & Healing Spaces

Nature-based “Mental Health Hikes” that reintroduce Black people to rest, restoration, breath, and joy — because healing is not only about surviving trauma but reclaiming aliveness.

3. Domestic Violence Prevention & Restoration

Community education and peer support that confronts cycles of harm — while protecting relationships, families, and emotional safety in culturally-aware ways.

4. Food & Resource Access

Community farmers markets and resource distribution — not as crisis response, but as dignity. Food deserts become food gardens; scarcity becomes shared abundance.

Why Their Work Matters

The Black Neighborhood fills the gap that systemic neglect created:

not only helping people survive harm but giving them the support to outgrow it.

Where other institutions prescribe help after crisis, TBN builds belonging and wellness before crisis — so that healing is not an emergency, but a lifestyle.

Their work matters because thriving Black communities should not be rare — they should be normal.

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How to Connect

For updates about events!

Visit The Black Neighborhood Website!

Instagram: @theblackneighborhood

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Partnership Acknowledgment

The organizations featured in our Miles of Connections profiles are part of a county-wide effort to advance health, healing, and well-being within Contra Costa’s Black communities. Along with The Miles Hall Foundation, twelve organizations received funding

through Contra Costa County to expand culturally rooted care and community support.

This work is built from the voices of over 4,000 Black residents who shaped the vision for a stronger ecosystem of services. In response, on August 12, 2025, the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the launch of what will become the Federal Glover African American Holistic Wellness and Resource Hub — a coordinated network of Black-led wellness services to be anchored in East County.

The Contra Costa Office of Racial Equity and Social Justice (ORESJ), in partnership with the East Bay Community Foundation, is supporting this first cohort of organizations to ensure services reach the community now while the Hub’s long-term infrastructure is built.

As part of this initiative, The Miles Hall Foundation leads the “Miles of Connections” outreach effort, helping residents learn about, access, and connect with these vital healing resources.