Dehcho Dene NT a Residential School Survivor. Frank is fluent in his traditional language of Dene Zhatie. Frank has been involved with the Aboriginal Healing Foundation (AHF) since its inception as a Community Support Worker/Regional Liaison for the Yukon and the NT assisting communities to actively manage their funded contracts with AHF. He then became a Residential School Specialist facilitating psycho-educational trauma recovery healing programs in urban and remote communities in the NT. He then became the NT/Yukon representative/liaison for the Truth and Reconciliation (TRC) process. Most recently he has been working with the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls at the National events and as a statement gatherer for the families who have lost their loved ones. Other relevant experience includes 6 years as a probation officer, 15 plus years as a trained and certified drug and alcohol counsellor, certified Life Coach and facilitator, 12 years as a lead Suicide Assist Trainer in the NWT.

Bev and Frank have most recently been acknowledged by Health Canada in the NT as a Traditional Healers.

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