Kacey Heekin, J.D. interned at the Claude Pepper Center. Her research focused on mental health policy. She graduated Sum Cum Laude from Florida State University’s College of Law in 2019. She’s currently an Associate at Nelson Mullins where she focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions, securities law, and health law.
Issue Briefs:
- Mental Health Expenditures in Florida: Concerning Trends Throughout the Past Decade (2016)
- The Challenge of Suicide in Older Adults (2016)
- Review of the Executive Actions to Reduce Gun Violence (2016)
- The Mental Health and Criminal Justice Systems: The Burden of Forcing one System’s Responsibilities onto Another (2015)
- Aging and Mental Health: The Troubles Facing the Current Geriatric Mental Health System (2015)
- Mental Health and Violence: Misconceptions Surrounding Mental Illness (2015)
- Florida’s Strained Mental Health System (2015)
Other Reports:
- Recommendations for Ending the Long Neglect of Persons Needing Mental Health Care (2016)
- Adult Mental Health Services Update (2015)
- Aging and Mental Health (2015)
- Childhood and Adolescence and Mental Health (2015)
- Managed Mental Health Care (2015)
- The Criminal Justice System and Mental Health (2015)
- Environmental and Economic Factors Associated with Mental Illness (2015)
- Managed Long-Term Care (2014)