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Senior Integrated Care Case Manager; Non-profit business owner
Wakpa Waste Counseling Services; Red Generation
Eagle Butte, SD, United States
Biography
Toni Handboy is from the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and serves as a Lead Integrated Care Case Manager, Supervisory Licensed Addiction Counselor for Wakpa Waste Counseling Services and will lend her expertise in working with youth, families, and community members through counseling and networking services, including case management, individual goal planning, recovery coaching and peer support. She is a MSW with an LAC with the State of South Dakota Board of Addiction Professionals. She is also a Certified Peer Recovery Coach and holds a non-profit business Red Generation (Piya Wicoicaga Luta) that provides Holistic Care applying a Cultural and Spiritual mentoring approach.
She has been in recovery and holds a personal recovery story of 19 years free of substances. Practices and lives a Red Road life. She has mentored the youth and has shared her personal story with the indigenous community as a form of healing. She displays and holds compassion for her people. The contribution she has provided to the indigenous community has made an impact in many lives. When you can touch one life, means you have touched many.
Lastly, she has started her journey into a transformation of changing the narrative of her life. One story of healing and making a commitment to her relatives and community of her reservation.
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Learning Together: Indigenous Stories as a Medium for Healing and Action
Friday, October 25, 2024
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT