Ms. McKinney is a family advocate with a focus on issues affecting African American women and their children. She helped found the National People of Color Consumer\/Survivor Network. She herself is a survivor of trauma and addiction, falling prey to homelessness, and being victimized by broken psychiatric and criminal justice systems. She has been a consultant and advisor to the Center for Mental Health Services and tours nationally, speaking to audiences on issues such as seclusion\/restraint, intergenerational family support, and minority issues in public mental health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ms. McKinney has been awarded the Clifford W. Beers Award, presented to a consumer of mental health and\/or substance abuse services who reflects the example set by Beers in his efforts to improve conditions for, and attitudes toward, people with mental illnesses. She is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration\u2019s Voice Awards program which was presented to her for her leadership and advocacy on behalf of trauma survivors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacki McKinney uses her adversities to help build powerful communities.","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[268,272],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.academysrq.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.academysrq.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.academysrq.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.academysrq.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.academysrq.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.academysrq.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.academysrq.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.academysrq.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.academysrq.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.academysrq.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}