ABSTRACT

A highly racialized approach to mental health challenges and care within Britain has had an adverse effect on ethnic minorities, especially African and Caribbean people, throughout the country. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated matters. Fashioning a more just approach is a major challenge for the mental health service sector as well as for the British government, but the Black Majority Church also can contribute. If that institution is to be an effective partner, its leaders and ordinary members should pay great attention to public policy and practice. In so doing, churchgoers can help facilitate a holistic approach to the well-being of the black population.