John Morris is the Director of the Human Services Practice at TAC. In addition to his work with TAC, he continues to work as Professor and Director of Health Policy Studies in the Department of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine.

John has thirty-five years of experience as a clinician, program manager, senior administrator and evaluator in the behavioral health and human services field. John founded the SC Center for Innovation in Public Mental Health, and most recently served as Vice President and then Senior Policy Consultant for Comprehensive NeuroScience, Inc. John is currently the Vice Chair of the Annapolis Coalition on the Behavioral Health Workforce, a national initiative to strengthen the quality of training, continuing education, recruitment and retention of a competent workforce.

John has published extensively on policy issues and has been involved in the dissemination of evidence based practices, including serving as principal investigator on three federal grants implementing evidence-based practices in community mental health settings. John is a member of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s Mental Health Policy Research Network, is Secretary/Treasurer of the Board of Directors of the National Mental Health Association, and serves as a member of the National Advisory Council to the Georgetown Technical Assistance Center for Children’s Mental Health.

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