Jessica Morgan
Jessica Morgan is a social worker with over 11 years’ experience of working in suicide prevention and postvention, to reduce the rates of youth suicide and improve mental health outcomes among Australian students and their community. Having been a longstanding member of the headspace Schools & Communities team, Jessica has played a key role in strengthening headspace’s knowledge of the key elements of effective postvention support to education settings, and communities. Jessica’s current role as National Program Manager for headspace’s University Support Program complements the broader headspace Schools & Communities programs and holds a strong focus on building the capacity of the higher education sector to support the mental health outcomes of students and staff by providing training and bespoke service delivery, including suicide postvention, that is contextualised to the setting.
Jessica is a strong advocate for promoting the use of consistent language and understandings of mental health and a stronger focus on empowering individuals to identify the active role they can play in supporting their own mental health and the mental health and wellbeing of those around them.
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