ABOUT MWF
Muslim Wellness Foundation (MWF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing healing, emotional well-being, and collective care in American Muslim communities through dialogue, education, training, research, and community-centered practice.
As MWF marks its 15th anniversary in 2026, its guiding theme is Rasikh: What We Carry Forward. Rasikh speaks to rootedness in knowledge, faith, and moral clarity. It names MWF’s ongoing commitment to care that is spiritually grounded, community-based, and liberatory. Through its SelebeYoon paradigm, MWF continues to develop healing-centered models of research, education, and community engagement that attend to the links between oppression and wellness while also affirming joy, resilience, creativity, and belonging.
Today, Muslim Wellness Foundation stands as a leading voice in wellness, healing justice, and community-based knowledge production. Across its programs, research initiatives, and public scholarship, MWF remains committed to building communities of care where American Muslims—especially Black Muslims and other historically marginalized communities—can heal, grow, thrive, and carry forward the stories, practices, and relationships that sustain us.
The Omar ibn Said Institute and the Black Muslim Psychology Conference serve as shining examples of MWF's innovative leadership and community service. Learn more about the amazing highlights from our 15 year journey!
Omar ibn Said Institute
In 2021, MWF established the Omar ibn Said Institute for Black Muslim Studies & Research as a division of the organization. Named in honor of Omar ibn Said [1770-1863], a West African Muslim scholar whose intellect and faith endured through enslavement in North Carolina, the Said Institute extends MWF’s healing-centered mission into research, archival recovery, public scholarship, cultural preservation, and narrative justice. The Institute advances Black Muslim histories, voices, and ways of knowing as sacred sources of wisdom, resilience, and healing. Its work is organized around remembrance, reconnection, and reclamation: honoring the past, bridging the present, and shaping futures rooted in truth, dignity, and self-determination.
Black Muslim Psychology Conference
As a flagship initiative of Muslim Wellness Foundation’s Omar ibn Said Institute for Black Muslim Studies & Research, the Black Muslim Psychology Conference (BMPC) continues to advance the formal development of Black Muslim Psychology as a necessary field of study, practice, and community transformation. Established in 2015, BMPC is rooted in the legacy of Black Muslim survival, scholarship, spirituality, and resistance. BMPC affirms that Black Muslim wellness is not marginal to American Muslim life, Black life, or the field of psychology—it is central to the work of healing, justice, and collective flourishing.
BMPC2026 | Rasikh: What We Carry Forward
Dakar + Gorée Island, Senegal
December 17-19, 2026
An historic Black Muslim Atlantic gathering. For the first time, BMPC will gather outside the United States, bringing participants into a transatlantic space rooted in memory, healing, faith, scholarship, dialogue, and collective responsibility. This year’s theme, Rasikh, speaks to what is deeply rooted, firmly grounded, and carried forward with clarity, purpose, and care. The program will explore Black Muslim wellness, family and community healing, leadership, Black Atlantic connection, art and storytelling, youth and future-building, and the ongoing work of reclaiming narrative, knowledge, and care.
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15th Anniversary
Campaign
Since 2011, Muslim Wellness Foundation (MWF) has worked to transform how American Muslim communities understand and respond to mental health, identity, faith, trauma, and collective well-being. What began as a commitment to challenging stigma and expanding access to culturally relevant mental health education has evolved into a broader movement advancing healing, scholarship, leadership development, cultural preservation, and community-centered social change.
For 15 years, MWF has created spaces for difficult conversations, cultivated emerging leaders, challenged harmful narratives, and strengthened communities through education, research, dialogue, and collective care. As we celebrate this milestone, your donation is an investment in the next chapter of MWF's 15-year legacy: sustaining community-centered programs, supporting the people and partnerships that make this work possible, and building the institutional capacity needed to continue serving future generations.
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Merch!
Shop the Muslim Wellness Foundation online store for apparel and merchandise that celebrates Black Muslim identity, history, and community. Explore our signature very Black. very Muslim. collection, along with items featuring the Omar ibn Said Institute and its distinctive Omar icon, designed by Black Muslim graphic design firm 19 the Agency.
Each purchase helps support MWF’s ongoing work to advance Black Muslim wellness, healing-centered research, historical preservation, public scholarship, community education, and programs such as the Black Muslim Psychology Conference and Omar ibn Said Institute initiatives.