Noelle Knotts 

Noel is a California state certified support specialist and a San Francisco State University graduate with a bachelors in Health and Social Science. Noel holds over 15 years of education, outreach and lived experience in recovery both inside and outside the world of being. Experience includes institutional mentoring, social justice training, community advocacy and volunteer life coach and social service linkage provider services first began as a teen residing in a youth shelter downtown San Francisco. Utilizing an amazing 5+ years as a recovery coach with tragedies with proven results. Having accumulated a mental help care first approach that focuses on fun seeking, goal setting pavement and doing what it takes to follow through. Understanding the difficulties of transformation and operating on a substance free path that isn’t boring, too challenging or completely void of complex understanding. Each path may vary, all paths should be a trip worth exploring.