Fellow's Profile
Jay Perkins
Fellow's Profile
Jay Perkins
Exploring UK applications of community-led mental health and wellbeing solutions in the Caribbean
Fellowship
- Themes
- Focus
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Exploring & bridging alternative help systems to transform Black healing across the UK & Caribbean
- Countries
- Fellowship year
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2026
- Supported by
- Locality
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London
Biography
I am a consultant psychodynamic psychotherapist, changemaker, upstander and accomplice, and founder of Partisan - a Black-led organisation that spent five and a half years co-designing alternative help systems alongside Black and racially minoritised communities across South London and beyond. I have spent over two decades working at the intersection of therapy, community and systems change.
My Fellowship explores community-led approaches to mental health and healing in the Caribbean. Each country holds a different relationship to slavery and colonialism and has developed distinct ways of building care in resistance to what was imposed on them. I want to learn from that, in a non-extractive and genuine way, exchanging learning bi-directionally; both the Caribbean and the UK have things to offer each other, and this is intended to bridge two worlds.
I believe the alternative help systems that Black communities need don't yet exist at scale in the UK. The Caribbean has been building them for generations, and this Fellowship will support me to find them, share that learning and continue to transform Black healing across the UK and the Caribbean.
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Disclaimer
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
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