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Shawn Morrissey Promoted to Senior Director of Advocacy and Community Engagement at Union Station Homeless Services

Published on Monday, January 25, 2021 | 10:39 am
 
Shawn Morrissey

Union Station Homeless Services announced today the promotion of Shawn Morrissey, to Senior Director of Advocacy and Community Engagement, as a senior member of the organization’s Executive Team reporting directly to CEO Anne Miskey.

In this role, Shawn continues to lead the advocacy work of Union Station, advocating for best practices and policies around homelessness, service provision, housing, and housing accessibility and sustainability. He also heads up the Advocacy Committee, as well as the Lived Expertise Advisory Panel (LEAP), a diverse group of current and formerly unhoused individuals who share insights on decision making and policies at the organization, county and state level.

Shawn is a licensed California State Substance Use Disorder Specialist and also holds a Harm Reduction Certificate from York University in Toronto, Canada. As a practitioner of the Housing First model, Shawn brings his experience and knowledge of the best practices and evidence-based models that are crucial to solving homelessness and creating stability and sustainability in vulnerable populations. In his daily work, Shawn continues to expand the department to further influence public opinion on issues related to housing, ending homelessness and creating accessible and effective resources for all people.

“Shawn brings extensive knowledge of the issues involved in addressing homelessness, with 17 years of experience in the field of homeless advocacy, service provision and social justice,” said Anne Miskey, CEO.  “When you couple this expertise with his unique perspective as a trauma survivor who experienced homelessness, you have the ideal person to build the bridge between marginalized and vulnerable communities and faith and civic leaders, the police, elected officials and the broader community.”

Having worked at Union Station Homeless Services from 2004 to 2008, Shawn returned in 2015 to run several of the Permanent Supportive Housing Programs, as the Associate Director of Permanent Supportive Housing. Interim to that, he served as Program Manager at Housing Works where he worked alongside and mentored under Los Angeles Homeless services pioneer, Mollie Lowery.

For more information, visit www.unionstationhs.org.

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