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Beams to Bridges
Beams to Bridges (BTB) is a cohort-based program that equips residents with practical skills grounded in Black history and healing traditions to support mental health and community wellbeing. Through facilitated learning, reflective dialogue, and applied practice, participants deepen their understanding of mental health within the context of cultural identity, lived experience, and collective care.
Our model:
Participants explore topics including cultural expression and identity, intergenerational trauma, grief and loss, mental illness, and self-harm and suicide.
The program centers both personal healing and community responsibility, creating space for participants to reflect, connect, and build supportive relationships.
Beyond discussion, participants learn and practice concrete skills to promote self-care, peer support, and community-care strategies.
Each cohort applies their learning through a collaborative community project designed to address a locally identified mental health or wellbeing need.
To reduce barriers to participation, we provide meals, stipends, childcare, and transportation support (as funding allows).
Graduates are recognized in a community celebration and invited to join an alumni network for continued skill-building, connection, and opportunities to serve in volunteer or paid community-care roles.
Graduates are recognized in a community celebration and invited to join an alumni network for continued skill-building, connection, and opportunities to serve in volunteer or paid community-care roles.
Beams to Briges is in Wilkinsburg!
BTB 6 will be hosted by Community Forge
1256 Franklin Ave, Wilkinsburg, PA 15221
Application period: Opens Monday 3/9, Closes Sunday 4/12
Program Start date and schedule: May 13, 2026
(5:30 pm – 7:30 pm)
Graduation: November 18, 2026
*Daycare for littles and programming for other young people are available through our partners at Community Forge. Please note your interest or needs for daycare.
Contact Meleak Potter (Program Coordinator)
412- 390-0235 x 231
with questions or to apply by phone.
Apply HERE.
