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Yvonne Marie Perret
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Yvonne Marie Perret
Executive Director
Advocacy and Training Center
What do you consider your most significant professional accomplishment?
Directing a Social Security Administration grant-funded outreach project to people who are homeless and who have serious mental illness and/or co-occurring disorders in Baltimore for 10 years. This project became a national model and staff across the country have assisted more than 80,000 people, obtaining on initial application, approvals for more than 43,000 as of 2019.
Please share a quote about your commitment to mentoring and the impact it has had on your life. Tie a specific experience if possible.
I was at a conference and the speaker was someone I knew. Later, she came and told me that I was the first person who had talked about and trained on trauma and she never forgot it. I was so touched and realized how important what we say means to others.
Please share a quote about your community service and why you make the time to give back.
I believe that we are all in this world together, united by common needs and humanity and that I have a moral obligation to recognize this through doing what I can to help individuals and my community.
