Meet Our Team

Healing Minds NOLA Membership

Our organization is composed of spirited and multifaceted experts from a wide range of mental health-related fields. We have recruited local members from legislative, non-profit, economic, legal, and administrative backgrounds who all believe in one common purpose: to address the growing need for mental health treatment for the incarcerated, homeless, intellectually disabled, and severely mentally ill. Feel free to contact us here if you have interest in joining our ever-expanding list of stakeholders

Our Board Members

Read below to meet the three passionate women who serve as the Healing Minds NOLA board.

Janet Hays has partnered with like-minded individuals and organizations across the state and nation to demand change that leads toward a full continuum of psychiatric care for seriously mentally ill people in Louisiana. She advocates for policies and matching funding priorities that focus on evidence-based treatment and care programs.

Most recently, Ms. Hays lead an effort to robustly implement Louisiana’s under-utilized assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) law. AOT is tailored to the small group of people with serious mental illnesses who cannot or will not adhere to treatment in the community without supervision.

Debi is a family member and serves on the NAMI New Orleans/Jefferson Parish Board. She is an active mental health advocate and speaker in demand, sharing strengths and challenges of navigating systems from the unique and less often heard family perspective.

Anne Morel is our acting treasurer and secretary. As a mother to a a child with mental health struggles, Anne is dedicated to ensuring that other parents to severely mentally ill children find ease in locating and providing treatment.

Meet Our Team

Healing Minds NOLA Membership

Our Board Members

Together, we are making a difference!

Together, we are making a difference!