Elizabeth Croney
Elizabeth Croney is the President of KVC Behavioral Health Services Kentucky and West Virginia. Ms. Croney began her career developing extensive experience working with alcohol abuse and mental health programs, and in 1989, she was appointed as the first director of Stoner Creek Centre, an inpatient psychiatric unit for children and adults. Ms. Croney established a private practice in Bourbon County in 1990, where she worked extensively with children and families.
In 1999, she formed Croney & Clark, Inc., a private, for-profit corporation serving three rural counties, and over a 10-year period, she developed it into an agency providing services in metropolitan Fayette County and 16 surrounding counties. Croney & Clark delivered wrap-around behavioral health and community-based services to children and families identified by the Kentucky Department of Mental Health as needing intensive services. KVC acquired Croney & Clark in 2009 and appointed her president of Kentucky operations. She became president of the KVC West Virginia subsidiary in December 2010.
In 2009, Ms. Croney was awarded Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky’s “Champion for Children” Award. She also has written and been awarded state and local contracts to deliver behavioral health and child welfare services, and she was awarded the first performance-based child welfare contract in the state.
Ms. Croney holds a bachelor’s in criminal justice from the University of South Florida and a master’s in social work from the University of Kentucky. She has published in the area of ethics and supervision and is a sought-after workshop leader, trainer and speaker in the U.S. and Canada.