Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal
BC Community Achievement Award
Meritorious Service Medal of Canada
Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women
Canadian Psychological Association Humanitarian Award
Simon Fraser University Distinguished Community Leadership Award

Additional Honors & Awards

Member, Order of Canada

Accelerating a network model of care: taking a social innovation to scale

Vickie’s unique response to the isolation and loneliness that underpin some our most intractable health and social problems – a network model of care, has been adopted internationally. She is a social entrepreneur who has established many organizations dedicated to strengthening community and addressing social isolation including Tyze Personal Networks.  This pioneering Canadian technology venture has been called the next frontier of caregiving for its work in creating online networks of care for people facing life challenges.

Vickie is also the founding director of the Family Support Institute of British Columbia and she co founded Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (PLAN).  She created PLAN's Personal Network program, a practical and strategic approach to address the isolation and loneliness experienced by people with disabilities. As the founding CEO of PLAN Institute for Caring Citizenship she mentored the spread of grass roots PLAN groups in 30 locations globally.

Vickie writes, consults and lectures on social networks, organizational transformation and scaling social innovation. She is an advisor to the Employer Panel for Caregivers.  She is co author of ‘Safe and Secure - Six Steps to Creating a Personal Future Plan for People with Disabilities’ and Accelerating a Network Model of Care – Taking a Social Innovation to Scale.

Vickie is a member of the Order of Canada and the recipient of the Meritorious Service Medal of Canada, the British Columbia Community Achievement Award and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for her work in the field. The Women’s Executive Network named Vickie as one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women.

Caregiving

Social Isolation

Intentional Networks

Community Development

Social Innovation

Social Entrepreneurship

Public Speaking

English

French

Tyze Personal Networks

Social Innovation Generation

Nest: A conversation with Vickie Cammack 

Vickie Cammack's keynote speech at the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation

A conversation on technology and care with the founding CEO of Tyze Personal Networks

Twelve from B.C. named to Order of Canada

Federal government launches plan to help caregivers

Vancouver couple to be inducted jointly into Order of Canada

Social Innovator and Care Activist

Vickie Cammack is the founder and CEO of Tyze http://bit.ly/TyzeSocialMission. She is also the Founding Director of PLAN Institute, and co-founder of Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (PLAN), a pioneer social enterprise supporting families to secure the future of their family member with a disability. She created PLAN's Personal Network program, a unique response to the isolation and loneliness experienced by people with disabilities and mentored the spread of grass roots PLAN groups in 40 locations globally.

Vickie is the recipient of the 2012 BC Community Achievement Award, the 2012 Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal of Canada, the Community Living Institute's Leadership Award, the Canadian Psychological Association's Humanitarian Award, and Simon Fraser University President's Club Distinguished Community Leadership Award. She co-led a Canadian exploration on sustainability and social innovation, and is a Fellow with Social Innovation Generation, a partnership between the University of Waterloo, MaRS, and J.W. McConnell Family Foundation. In 2008, the Women's Executive Network named Vickie one of Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women.

Vickie is the Founding Director of the Family Support Institute and has taught and designed curriculum for colleges and universities. When she resigned from her faculty position at Douglas College, her colleagues established an annual student leadership award in her name, in recognition of her outstanding contribution to both students and faculty.

The Independence Myth

Vickie Cammack - Main Presentation

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