In the Media
Print & Digital Publications
In this Hollywood courtroom, defendants are sentenced to get help, and graduations are celebrated — LA Times, July 2026
A Los Angeles Woman Was Lost. An Ambitious Mental Health Program Gave Her a Sense of Purpose — KQED, April 2026
Freedom Is Therapeutic — The Progressive Magazine, May 2025
How a small Italian city became a model for mental health care — Financial Times, December 2024
Patrick Kennedy Visits Trieste: "You Are a Model in Mental Health" — Trieste Prima, October 2024
US Delegation Visits ASUGI Mental Health Services, Also President Kennedy's Nephew — Trieste Cafe, October 2024
Mental Health: JFK's Grandson in Trieste and Gorizia — iMagazine, October 2024
Released after two years of locked psychiatric care: A battle few families can fight — Los Angeles Times, March 2023
What the World Can Learn From Trieste’s Mental Health Model — Zócalo Public Square, March 2023
Heart Forward LA’s Kerry Morrison Calls for Coalition of Shared Accountability on Homelessness — The Planning Report, December 2022
At This Hollywood Home For People Living With Serious Mental Illness, ‘Gardening Is Like Therapy’ — LAist, August 2022
LA’s mental illness crisis: We have to do better — Los Angeles Times, February 2022
Reimagining Homelessness & Mental Health: Kerry Morrison on Radical Hospitality & Lessons from Trieste, Italy — The Planning Report, December 2021
Helping the Hollywood homeless amid the COVID 19 heatwave — Los Angeles Times, August 2020
A New Approach to Mental Health Care Imported from Abroad — Health Affairs, March 2020
The toll of one man’s mental illness: 17 criminal cases, six competency hearings, one failed conservatorship — Los Angeles Times, November 2019
Shamed by Hollywood homeless catastrophe, she went to Italy for answers — Los Angeles Times, October 2019
Once You’ve See Trieste, You Cannot Pretend It Doesn’t Exist — The Hollywood Partnership, November 2017
Shame of Our Cities: Neglect of the Mentally Ill — Psychology Today, July 2017
Broadcast & Streaming Media
Freedom is Therapeutic: Trieste and Italian Perspectives on Community Care Reform — The International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis, January 2026
The Intersection of Homelessness and SMI: An Interview with Kerry Morrison of Heart Forward LA — National Shattering Silence Coalition, February 17, 2024
Can People Get Well in a Cell? — LA County Civilian Oversight Commission virtual panel, May 2023
Reimagining Homelessness: Transforming the American Mental Health System Through Radical Hospitality — Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the Trenches, March2022
Radical Hospitality — Daily Planet, August 2021
Inside the Country’s Largest Jail: Peer Assisted Mental Health Care — UCLA Center for Social Medicine virtual panel, April 2021
State Leaders Travel to Italy for Answers to Homeless Crisis — Spectrum News 1, September 2019
Lectures & Presentations
Presentation Slides: Radical Hospitality at LA County Jail— LA County Civilian Oversight Commission, May 2023