Research Guides: Black Health Pedagogy &amp; Research Guide: Community Resources, Organizations, Associations

Searching for Resources by and About Black Communities

In order to find community resources (which are also helpful sources of grey literature), consider the following options and methods:

Brainstorm Relevant Communities / Stakeholders / Organizations

Search topic in Google and look through first 5-10 pages for relevant Black health authorities, organizations or communities.
- Look at who publishes and/or holds relevant resources and knowledge
Ask research team members for suggested organizations
Browse the grey literature library page for sources of grey literature
Use the below honeycomb to brainstorm potential authorities, organizations, or stakeholders relevant to your topic

*Image by Jackie Stapleton, Liaison Librarian, University of Waterloo; adapted by Kaitlin Fuller & Erica Lenton, Liaison Librarians, University of Toronto

Grey Literature Search Plan Template
This template may help you as you identify relevant authorities and track your searches.

Search and Documentation Strategies

Combine your concepts (with AND) and synonyms (with OR) using boolean operators as applicable.

Consider searching in a variety of locations :
Targeted Website Browsing/Searching (Go to the website)
Advanced Google Targeted website searching
Grey Literature Database Search (eg. [insert relevant example])
Search Engine Searching (eg. Google or DuckDuck Go)
Track your searches! For example:
Searched [name of website & URL] with [search query combinations] on [date] located [relevant items located/ searched not relevant/ results may be of interest]

Organizations and Associations

Advancing community unity and prosperity (ACOMI)
A non-profit organization that aims at a vibrant, engaged and sustainable African Canadian presence across Manitoba, contributing to a culturally rich and economically prosperous, socially inclusive society.
Afri-Can Food Basket
The Afri-Can FoodBasket is a community based non-profit organization that has been at the forefront of championing Food Justice and Food Sovereignty for Toronto’s African, Caribbean, Black (ACB) community since 1995.
Black CAP (Black Coalition for Aids Prevention)
Working to respond to the threat of HIV and AIDS in Toronto’s African, Caribbean and Black communities.
Black Health Alliance
Improving the health and well-being of Black communities in Canada.
Black Health Collaborative
A community of scholars and practitioners committed to improving Black health through education and research.
Black Youth Helpline
Serves all youth and specifically responds to the need for a Black youth specific service, positioned and resourced to promote access to professional, culturally appropriate support for youth, families and schools.
Canadian Black Scientists Network (CBSN)
A national coalition of Black people possessing or pursuing higher degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine/Health (STEMM), together with Allies who are senior leaders with a demonstrated commitment to action for Black inclusion.Includes a Network Directory of members across Canada, including academics, graduate students and postdocs, research administrators, and STEMM practitioners.
Elizabeth Fry Toronto
Delivers gender-based, trauma-informed services and advocates for justice and equity for women and non-binary people who are criminalized and their families
Health Association of African Canadians
Formed in 2000 to address African Canadian health issues and the system inequities affecting health.
Mommy Monitor
A maternal health service that organizes customized care to give mothers the type of maternal health services they want and need.
Roots Community Services Inc.
Provides culturally-relevant programs and services to inspire and empower individuals, primarily from the Black, African and Caribbean communities, to make positive changes in their lives and within their communities.
Sickle Cell Awareness Group of Ontario
A charitable patient organization providing evidence-based support to families with children, adolescents, and adults, with sickle cell disease across the four regions of the province of Ontario.
TAIBU Community Health Centre
Offers Black-identifying clients from throughout the Greater Toronto Area access to primary care, health promotion and disease prevention programs in a culturally affirming environment
Women’s Health in Women’s Hands
Provides racialized women, trans and non-binary clients from the African, Black, Caribbean, Latin American and South Asian communities in Toronto and surrounding municipalities with culturally safe, relevant, and responsive primary healthcare.

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