About this event
A week of storytelling, support and policy action centred around Black mothers.
This September, The Motherhood Group leads the sixth annual Black Maternal Mental Health Week.
The theme in 2026 is "Transforming and Advancing Change". This initiative aims to address the mental health disparities faced by Black mothers and their children, focusing on the societal, historical, and systematic factors contributing to these disparities.
Black mothers face higher risks and barriers to care. They are more than twice as likely to be hospitalised with perinatal mental illness than white mothers, making up 12% of admissions despite only 5% of births.
