Campaign updates

Latest updates

• August 2026

  A new online home for the manifesto

  The manifesto’s website has been rebuilt from the ground up — including a searchable evidence library of over a hundred plain-language, source-checked summaries, and new ways to take action. Developed in solidarity with BLKOUT UK.

• July 2026

  Assess & Align adds a sixth dimension: Safeguarding & Aftercare

  The Alliance’s tool for weighing research partnership requests now asks every study to show a trauma-informed framework and aftercare that is owned — a named lead and deputy — shaped by Alliance members’ lived experience of research participation. Try Assess & Align.

• March 2026

  Can good mental health go viral?

  Alliance members hosted a webinar on how Black mental health messages travel — and why the invisibility of our communities in the data is a political problem, not a communications one. That argument now runs through the manifesto’s case for change.

• April 2024

  The Black Mental Health Manifesto launches

  The Black Mental Health and Wellbeing Alliance publishes 23 recommendations for structural change, drawing on decades of evidence and the knowledge of Black communities, practitioners, and people with lived experience.