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Marlene Bear

Marlene Bear is a prominent Saskatchewan-based Indigenous advocate and Cree speaker from Flying Dust First Nation. With more than 40 years of experience working with Indigenous youth and women, she is widely recognized for her critical work in public safety, community health, and support for marginalized communities.

She is a residential school survivor who shares her story through preservation archives. She has also founded and managed the Northern Prairie Dancers, a youth square dancing and jigging troupe performing at regional cultural events like Back to Batoche. She is a current and founding member of the Saskatchewan Indigenous Mental Health Association, an Indigenous created and led mental health group aimed to provide culturally safe, trauma-informed mental health and wellness support across Saskatchewan.

Her greatest accomplishment are her children, Alana, Dawn, and Cashton.

Maxine Ballantyne

Maxine is a bilingual (English and Cree) registered therapist with deep personal and cultural roots in Indigenous healing. As a residential school survivor, an intergenerational trauma survivor, and someone who has overcome domestic abuse and addiction, she brings a lived experience to her practice that no textbook can teach.

She works from Medicine Wheel approaches alongside a full range of therapeutic services, tailored to each individual she walks with.

Janice

Janice is an Anishinaabekwe (Saulteaux) BISW, RSW, and NIHB-approved trauma-informed mental health practitioner rooted in Indigenous ways of knowing, healing, and relational practice. Her work focuses on intergenerational trauma, addiction and recovery, grief and loss, mental health, and the lasting impacts of residential schools, child welfare systems, homelessness, and domestic violence.

Alongside her professional training in trauma-informed mental health and Indigenous healing, she has gained meaningful personal insight into the realities of living alongside combat-related PTSD and traumatic brain injury. This experience has deepened her understanding of how trauma impacts relationships, communication, attachment, and the nervous system.

Janice lives a clean and sober lifestyle and promotes wellness by living what she teaches. Drawing from both professional training and lived experience, she creates culturally safe spaces grounded in ceremony, teachings, and holistic healing of mind, body, spirit, and community. Her approach centres resilience, dignity, and the belief that healing is possible for individuals, families, and future generations.

Irene Clarke

Tansi. Irene originates from a First Nation called Southend Reindeer Lake and is a fluent Cree speaker. She was raised on the trapline until she was eight by her maternal grandparents, from whom she learned valuable lessons, and grew up with two sisters and two brothers.

She earned her BSW from the University of Regina in 1998 and has worked in the mental health field ever since, mostly in prevention. She currently has an office in Prince Albert and is taking new clients.

Irene raised her three children as a single parent and is now raising three grandchildren. Her life experience and years in mental health have shaped the compassionate practitioner she is today — she believes we all have the power to improve our lives by changing our focus on life.