Amelia Morrison
She/Her
Amelia serves as part of the Behavioral Health Wellness and Prevention team, facilitating trainings on mental health, suicide prevention, and substance use prevention as well as engaging in community outreach. A graduate of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding’s Conflict Transformation program, she brings a knowledge of trauma awareness and resilience, restorative justice practices, and strategies for engaging conflict interpersonally and at the community scale, with an eye toward building relationships and facilitating constructive dialogue. She has worked as an educator, facilitator, and program coordinator for various nonprofit organizations in the Harrisonburg-Rockingham community over the last 10 years.
Amelia comes to community health wellness and prevention work from a food justice advocacy and community organizing background. As an undergraduate student at James Madison University, she got involved with efforts to combat food insecurity and access issues by working with community gardening and urban agriculture efforts. In particular, her 6 years of community organizing work with Vine and Fig Sustainable Living Center, a nonprofit community gardening and supportive housing project, gave her the opportunity to build community around a shared vision of land-based social change leadership, participate in intersectional community organizing, gain tangible skills in sustainable agriculture and permaculture design, and build relationships of respect and cooperation with community members coming out of crises related to their housing, safety, and mental health.
In her free time, Amelia enjoys the mountains, bike-packing trips, cooking experiments, spontaneous dancing, and watching her two kittens make “biscuits” (the highest form of cat affection).
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