Our Team
Beckie Krumm
My name is Beckie Krumm. My education background is in Business as I graduated in 2006 from the University of Regina with a Bachelor’s Degree in Administration and a major in Accounting. While finishing my studies and working full-time at Evraz Regina Steel (formerly known as Ipsco Inc.) I worked in an array of roles within the accounting department from invoicing and cost accounting before moving into a management position. I started as an Accounts Payable Supervisor where I managed a team of six staff and then moved onto Senior Financial Accountant. Although very business driven with a love for numbers being a wife and mother was something I strived towards. After giving birth to my second daughter I suffered from postpartum psychosis. For years previous I struggled in silence with my mental health until it caught up with me and I was admitted into the psychiatric ward with suicidal ideations. Since then I have been on a long journey of healing and along that path in 2014 I became an ASIST facilitator and more recently a consulting trainer and coach with LivingWorks Education. As a natural leader, I was able to apply my business and organization skills to advertise, market and build clientele as well as complete the bookkeeping side in the background. Combining these skills with lived experience suicide intervention has become a passion. I am also a licensed facilitator for LivingWorks SafeTALK and a quality assurance partner for The ASK Workshop (Assessing Suicide for Kids) through Lifeline Workshops Inc.
Kristen Yorga
My name is Kristen Yorga. I have extensive experience providing support and services to people struggling with mental health and substance use disorders and am pleased to be able to offer my unique skills and abilities to the community at large. I completed the Addiction Counselling Diploma Program at Medicine Hat College in 2008 and have been employed with Saskatchewan Health Authority- Mental Health and Addiction Services ever since. I have expertise across several tiers of services including intake, client centred clinical services, in-patient detox, and various types of outpatient treatment programs. I have worked with both adolescent and adult clients with complex substance use and mental health needs. I have been committed to providing collaborative client care with other community agencies includ- ing Domestic Violence Court and Secure Youth Detox. I have a special interest in suicide inter- vention and have been facilitating ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) work- shops for LivingWorks Education since 2012. I am also a facilitator for SGI (Saskatchewan Gov- ernment Insurance) facilitating ADE (Alcohol and Drug Education) and DWI (Driving Without Impairment). In more recent years, I have added Mental Health Commission of Canada - Men- tal Health First Aid workshops onto my roster of workshops, which I have found to be very en- joyable, especially with regard to the audience I get to reach. In terms of other passions and pastimes, I enjoy cooking, yoga, running, teaching spin classes, reading and spending time outdoors.
Amanda Montgomery
My name is Amanda Montgomery. I am a nurse by trade and have spent the last 16 years growing as a leader in a health care organization called Hope’s Home. In my time at Hope’s Home, I was responsible for providing hands on Nursing care, creating programs, policies and procedures as well as developing and leading teams of amazing individuals who are responsible for caring for the most medically complex children in our province. I received a lot of leadership and management training throughout my career including the Effective Executive Program through Edwards School of Business, Health Leadership Certificate from the Saskatchewan institute of Health Leadership University of Regina and LEAP Management Skills development. I am trained to facilitate Back to Basics- Supporting Children and youth, Basic Skills training and Color Spectrums. I have also completed the Expedition Coaching Certified Coach training program and am working towards my Associate Certified Coach accreditation. I am passionate about the coach approach as working with my own coach helped me develop over the years and using the approach with my leadership teams has proven to result in the growth of strong, independent thinking, confident professionals. In recognition of my work and contributions to the Province of Saskatchewan I was honored as the recipient of the Queen Elizabeth 11 Diamond and Platinum Jubilee Medals. I have recently added SafeTALK and ASIST to my portfolio and am excited to join my sisters in their passion of providing support and training to individuals and organizations.