Speaker Profile
Kerry Morrison is an author, speaker and consultant calling for bold change in the way that people experiencing chronic homelessness and mental illness are cared for in our society. Inspired by the culture and practices cultivated over the past 40 years in Trieste, Italy, a city recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as model system for providing mental healthcare, she is committed to sharing the human-centered social recovery principles to receptive audiences in the U.S.
Speaking Topics
• The Trieste model – what is unique about this WHO-recognized best practice for community-based mental health care, and how its guiding principles can be applied in a U.S. context
• How a commitment to radical hospitality could transform our mental health system
• Why “homelessness” is too generic a word to describe the current social crisis facing our state and our country and what new language should be considered to inform this narrative.
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A Sampling of Presentations
Healing Minds New Orleans: Implementing a Full Continuum
of Psych Care: Focus on SMI (2019)
Panelist
Cal Matters Panel on
Mental Illness
(2019)
Hope on the Horizon: Reimagining Mental Health in California
International Downtown Association October 2018 Annual Conference
Master Talk:
New “Outside the Box” Approaches
to Homeless Services
Durfee Foundation
All Fellows Gathering
Pecha Kucha presentation
on
My Stanton Inquiry
Podcast Interviews
Kerry Morrison is the host of “Welcome to Heart Forward: Conversations from the Heart” podcast. This interview-style show delves into the problems with the broken American mental health system and highlights those who are advocating for change.