Dr. Sherry Mumford, the first person to receive a Distinguished Alumni Award (in 2003) and one of UFV’s Remarkable 50 Alumni (in 2024), passed away on September 5.<\/p>\n
Sherry was a mature student and mother when she enrolled at UFV in the 1990s. After completing a <\/span>BA in Criminology, she kept on going, earning another BA in Child and Youth Care at UVic, then an MA in Criminology and a PhD from Simon Fraser. In the meantime, Sherry was launching a career that made a major impact in the community.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n She worked with the Ministry of Child and Family Development as a regional addictions consultant. She joined Fraser Health\u2019s Mental Health and Substance Use (MHSU) program, first as the addictions leader, then as a manager for various substance use services. She became director of MHSU in 2009 and stayed in that role until she retired.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n She <\/span>called it a career in 2017 after logging more than 40 years in the substance use field.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n But retirement didn\u2019t quite take root for Sherry. She started consulting.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI stumbled into consulting when some former colleagues asked me to build a service pathway for youth at Foundry \u2014 <\/span>a network of integrated health and wellness services for youth<\/span>,\u201d she recalls. \u201cWhen they asked me to submit an invoice, Mumford Consulting Services was born.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Read more about Sherry here<\/a>.<\/p>\n See her obituary here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Her celebration of life will be held on Sat, Sept 27 at the Vineyard in Chilliwack (45892 Wellington Avenue).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. Sherry Mumford, the first person to receive a Distinguished Alumni Award (in 2003) and one of UFV’s Remarkable 50 Alumni (in 2024), passed away on September 5. Sherry was a mature student and mother when she enrolled at UFV in the 1990s. After completing a BA in Criminology, she kept on going, earning another … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35744"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35747,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35744\/revisions\/35747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}