Our Activities
We design, deliver and evaluate mental health and wellbeing peer support groups and workshops for Black people and allies in education, the community, and at work.
Black Students Talk
Black students have to survive racism, discrimination, and harassment whilst simultaneously being expected to thrive at university.
Many feel the weight of responsibilities and expectations from their families and friends to achieve social and economic mobility; #BlackExcellence.
Some Black students are also used as unpaid equality, diversity and inclusion consultants based on their lived daily trauma.
These pressures can become overwhelming.
Black Students Talk (BST) is a mental health and wellbeing peer support group for and by Black university students.
Black students come together to listen, learn, and support each other's mental health and wellbeing.
Set up Black Students Talk at your university!
Peer Support
Sessions
Upcoming Talks
We don’t have any upcoming talks at the moment.
But we are always keen to speak about all things Black mental health, racial inequalities in mental health or co-production.
Get in contact if you’d like us to deliver a talk or workshop!
Conference Talks, Seminars, Workshops
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‘What works to tackle mental health inequalities in higher education?’
TASO
‘Mental health tips for Black folx’
Black In Mental Health Week 2022
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‘Spaces for Anti-Racist Engagement and Reflection: Black Students Talk’
King’s College London
‘Mental Health in the Black Community’
Central and Northwest London NHS Foundation Trust
‘Supporting postgraduate Research Students’
The UK Council for Graduate Education
‘Creating an anti-racist culture: Black Students Talk’
AMOSSHE
‘Covid-19 and Student Mental Health: Supporting the Most Impacted Groups’
Student Minds
‘Mental health in higher education conference: Mental health and race’
Universities UK
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‘Intersectional approaches to target mental health support for Students’
Advance HE
‘Structural inequality: Race & Student mental health’
King’s College London
‘Black Students Talk: Mental Health in the Black Community’
University of Hertfordshire
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‘Black men’s mental health’
NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group
Videos.
Check out what the team have to say about Black student mental health, anti-Black racism, and Black healing.
Immediate support
Black People Talk is not a professional mental health service.
Our facilitators do not work in a professional capacity.