Chantel Huel is a fierce advocate for Indigenous Peoples seeking recovery. Chantel is five years into her own recovery journey and has over twenty years of experience in addiction-related work. Most recently with STR8 UP: 10,000 Little Steps to Healing Inc. as lived experience mentor and peer support navigator.
Chantel lives each day committed to walking alongside others on their healing journeys as they transform their lives and find freedom from addiction and street lifestyles. Chantel has honed and refined her skills as a mentor, mediator, negotiator, and system navigator and shares her considerable knowledge and honesty with those she supports.
By consistently employing trauma-informed and harm-reduction approaches in her work with others, Chantel creates a safe place for those she works with. Chantel's personal experiences are an asset to forging relationships with people from all walks of life. This enables her to impact the lives of the people she walks with and to influence the policies and systems they navigate on their healing journeys.
Chantel’s honesty, integrity and personal strength makes her voice an influential and essential one in the community
