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Ethel Hoeksema

Founder, Executive Director

Ethel is a Certified Life Skills Coach (4500h training program), having graduated in 1996 from the Life Skills Training Centre in Edmonton, AB. She received a 2-year Diploma in Social Work from Mt. Royal University, Calgary, AB in 1989. She also has her Level Two in Bookkeeping from The Academy of Learning in 2004. She is a volunteer with Narcotics Anonymous in Lethbridge and has represented Narcotics Anonymous in their booth at Project Connect (Lethbridge) for the past 6 years. In addition to her other accomplishments, Ethel was a board member of the Sik-Ooh-Kotoki Friendship Society, Lethbridge for 3 years, Board Member for Epilepsy Lethbridge for 5 years and speaks Blackfoot. With dedicated effort on her part the Wellness Through Living Society received its federal charity number on September 25, 2012 (82719 2881 RR0001).


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