The platform, named Bayo – meaning “joy has found us” in Yoruba – will provide tailored support and care for black young people, offering culturally appropriate and accessible services from black-led organisations and collectives.
The digital space aims to bring together UK services which cater specifically to the black community, and provide healing and joyful spaces for black young people to seek recovery in, following the pandemic’s disproportionate impact on black mental health.
People with black heritage are now five times more likely to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act, according to figures from mental health charity Mind, and rates of restrictive interventions such as physical and chemical restraint has doubled for black people in the past six years.
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