CEO
Vicky was the CEO/President of Frontenac Community Mental Health and Addiction Services (FCMHAS) from 1982 – 2015.
She developed the agency from a single service of supportive affordable housing as its sole volunteer to a complex, multifarious organization which includes a variety of intensive services with over two hundred staff members serving 3,000 clients. Under her guidance, FCMHAS received the Service of Excellence in 2007 from the Ontario Non-profit Housing Association.
She holds an honours degree in psychology, a Master of Public Administration and is a Certified Health Executive. She is involved in federal, provincial and local initiatives of service development and planning including the Mental Health Commission of Canada. She sat on the Ontario Minister of Health and Long Term Care’s Advisory Committee for the development of the ten-year Mental Health and Addictions Strategy. She was the co-lead of the national study on housing with supports – Turning the Key – a report of the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC). She spent five years on the Service Systems Advisory Committee of the MHCC. She is a board member of the World Association of Psychosocial Rehabilitation.
She has been given the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal by the City of Kingston and the Rotary Cub Paul Harris Fellow award for her work.
Email Vicky about CPRRP at vhuehn@psrrpscanada.ca