The Board of Directors of the Vermont Association for Mental Health announced recently that its executive director, Ken Libertoff, will be stepping down as director of the Vermont Associationfor Mental Health by the end of 2010. By that time Libertoff will have put in thirty years of work.
Besides “traveling” to the Vermont Statehouse for three decades, Libertoff has visited and consulted with more than three dozen states, delivered an address at the Sorbonne in Paris and of course, had two incredible work assignments in South Africa.
During his tenure, the Association was a leader in the passage of Vermont’s Parity bill in ‘97, the Pharmaceutical Disclosure bill of last year, the “un-shackling of Vermont kids”, the unraveling of the Fletcher Allen Healthcare scandal, passing regulatory legislation to better “manage” managed care companies, resisting Crazy for You Bears in the Vermont Teddy Bear campaign, building up Camp Daybreak, creating Friends of Recovery of Vermont and supporting the concept of community based services.
The Board of Directors of the VAMH will commence a comprehensive and thoughtful search for a new director over the course of this year. Indeed a plan is in place.
