Kerryn Pennell
Kerryn has worked in clinical and leadership positions for over 28 years in mental health and health and has played a pivotal role in developing responses to youth mental health in Australia and globally and been a practice innovator – developing new models at Orygen (and its earlier iteration EPPIC) for youth participation and peer support, family peer support and models of care and service.
Kerryn and her team are responsible for leading Orygen’s strategy and policy development and building key relationships and partnerships in Australia and globally. Kerryn has 30 years expertise in working alongside young people as key stakeholders to design and develop policy responses, services and facilities that are truly informed and designed in partnership with them. She has been responsible for ensuring the development and scaling up of Orygen's highly successful and innovative Youth Partnership and Engagement Strategy.
In the development of Orygen’s $78million new facility Kerryn has been involved in its conception and planning for close to 10 years , had a key role in securing funding and was the Client-side Capital Project Lead from the outset with direct roles in the Strategic Business Case, Feasibility Study,and Masterplanning phases of this significant project through to oversight and primary responsibility for this landmark project through all other phases to its completion and occupancy.
Over the years Kerryn has and continues to serve on a number of national and international committees in the area of youth mental health, ethics, health practitioner regulation and mental health workforce.
Kerryn was a scholar in the Leadership Enhancement in Health Care and Management Program at Mount Sinai Medical Centre in NYC and a recipient of a Creswick Foundation Fellowship. Her peers appointed her as a Foundation Fellow of the Australian College of Social Work.
She was Co-Founder of the International Early Psychosis Association and also Co-Founder of the International Association for Youth Mental Health. Kerryn is also a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne
Kerryn and her team are responsible for leading Orygen’s strategy and policy development and building key relationships and partnerships in Australia and globally. Kerryn has 30 years expertise in working alongside young people as key stakeholders to design and develop policy responses, services and facilities that are truly informed and designed in partnership with them. She has been responsible for ensuring the development and scaling up of Orygen's highly successful and innovative Youth Partnership and Engagement Strategy.
In the development of Orygen’s $78million new facility Kerryn has been involved in its conception and planning for close to 10 years , had a key role in securing funding and was the Client-side Capital Project Lead from the outset with direct roles in the Strategic Business Case, Feasibility Study,and Masterplanning phases of this significant project through to oversight and primary responsibility for this landmark project through all other phases to its completion and occupancy.
Over the years Kerryn has and continues to serve on a number of national and international committees in the area of youth mental health, ethics, health practitioner regulation and mental health workforce.
Kerryn was a scholar in the Leadership Enhancement in Health Care and Management Program at Mount Sinai Medical Centre in NYC and a recipient of a Creswick Foundation Fellowship. Her peers appointed her as a Foundation Fellow of the Australian College of Social Work.
She was Co-Founder of the International Early Psychosis Association and also Co-Founder of the International Association for Youth Mental Health. Kerryn is also a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne
