Haven for Black Healing (HBH)
Haven for Black Healing is a comprehensive, community-rooted program designed to meet Black individuals and families exactly where they are, geographically, economically, culturally, emotionally, mentally, and physically. This is healing that goes beyond services. It is a commitment to the full socioeconomic inclusion and liberation of our community.
HBH creates spaces where individuals and families impacted by violence, incarceration, displacement, and systemic inequity can access healing, community care, and pathways to stability. Black wellness is essential infrastructure, and healing is how communities rebuild.
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HBH fills this gap by offering community-based, culturally aligned healing spaces where people are supported with dignity and care. HBH centers the belief that Black wellness is essential infrastructure. Healing is not separate from public safety, reentry, or community stability. It is part of how communities rebuild.
What We Do
Healing Circles
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Community-led spaces to process grief, trauma, resilience, and joy in culturally affirming environments.
Credible Messenger Leadership
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Trusted community members with lived experience who guide individuals toward resources and stability.
Wellness Programming
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Events and workshops incorporating cultural practice, art, movement, and collective healing traditions.
Resource Connection
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Pathways to housing, reentry, employment, and trauma-informed care through BOSS.
Our Impact
HBH operates as part of the BOSS Wellness Empowerment Resiliency Campus (WERC) ecosystem and is supported by the BOSS Trauma Recovery Center (TRC).
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HBH reduces stigma around mental health in Black communities, strengthens trust between residents and support systems, and builds leadership within communities most impacted by harm.
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Contact: Daryle Allums Sr. | Haven for Black Healing Director | Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency | Trauma Recovery Center | 7501 International Blvd | Oakland Ca,94621 | dallums@self-sufficiency.org | cell: (510)774-2935 | office: 510-419-0669 x 1605