About Us
Our Mission
Healing Through Hope provides opportunities for healing by mending hearts, lifting spirits, and building connections that create space for love, laughter, and restoration.
We steward land, relationships, and healing environments that support grief integration, cultural continuity, and restoration of right relationship among individuals, communities, and the natural world.
Our Vision
Our vision is a world where Indigenous wisdom and modern practices come together to create vibrant, connected communities that thrive in body, mind, and spirit. We envision a future where individuals and families heal from past traumas, caregivers are supported and empowered, and healing environments—including stewarded places such as Cedar Springs Lodge—provide refuge, restoration, and reconnection to land, culture, and community.
We aspire to build a society where love, laughter, and shared knowledge lead to collective well-being, where reconciliation is honored through relationship and respect, and where Indigenous cultural traditions and ways of life are preserved, protected, and carried forward for generations to come.
Our Origin
Healing Through Hope was founded to create spaces where healing could occur through relationship, cultural connection, storytelling, and community. The organization emerged from lived experience, cultural knowledge, and a deep understanding of the ways grief, trauma, and life transition affect individuals, families, and communities.
From its beginning, Healing Through Hope has been grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing and being, guided by the understanding that healing is relational. Healing occurs through connection to community, to story, to land, and to one another.
The organization was founded and is led by Angela Letoi, whose leadership reflects cultural responsibility, lived experience, and a lifelong commitment to supporting healing across generations.
Healing Through Hope was created not to solve a problem, but to restore pathways for healing that have always existed.
Our Work Today
Healing Through Hope’s work has expanded in response to the needs of individuals and communities navigating grief, trauma, caregiving, life transition, and cultural reconnection.
Our work includes:
• Grief and healing retreats that provide safe and supported environments for individuals navigating loss and life transition
• Cultural storytelling and community gatherings that support healing through shared narrative and relational connection
• Workshops and educational offerings that support traditional knowledge, creative expression, and emotional healing
• Community-based healing events that create space for reflection, connection, and restoration
• Partnership with Tribal communities, community organizations, and service providers to support culturally grounded healing
Healing Through Hope also supports caregivers, helpers, and community leaders, recognizing that those who care for others also require care, restoration, and support.
This work strengthens individual resilience, family connection, and community wellbeing.
Leadership and Organizational Stewardship
Healing Through Hope is guided by a shared leadership model rooted in cultural continuity, operational stewardship, and relational accountability.
Angela Letoi is the Founder of Healing Through Hope and serves as Director of Operations. She remains the cultural and operational anchor of the organization, guiding its day-to-day work, maintaining continuity of its founding vision, and ensuring that all programs and stewardship efforts remain aligned with the organization’s cultural grounding and community responsibility. Her leadership reflects lived experience, cultural knowledge, and long-standing relationships that are foundational to Healing Through Hope’s identity and impact.
Melody Woodrich is transitioning into the role of Executive Director at the request of Angela and the Board of Directors. In this role, Melody provides executive leadership, organizational stewardship, and strategic development to support the long-term sustainability and expansion of Healing Through Hope’s work, including the stewardship of healing environments such as Cedar Springs Lodge. Her role is to operationalize and protect the organization’s mission while working in close collaboration with Angela to ensure continuity, integrity, and relational accountability.
Together, Angela and Melody operate within a shared leadership model that integrates cultural leadership and operational stewardship. This structure ensures that Healing Through Hope remains grounded in its founding purpose while building the organizational capacity needed to steward land, programs, and partnerships responsibly.
Healing Through Hope is also intentionally transitioning its Governing Board to be Indigenous-led, ensuring that organizational governance reflects the cultural knowledge, lived experience, and community accountability that are essential to stewarding healing environments and protecting Indigenous ways of being. This transition strengthens the organization’s ability to operate with cultural integrity, accountability, and long-term sustainability while remaining aligned with its founding purpose.
Tammy Cooper Woodrich, Tribal Elder and Board Member, provides cultural guidance, storytelling leadership, and accountability to community and lineage. Her presence ensures that Healing Through Hope’s work remains grounded in Indigenous knowledge systems and intergenerational wisdom.
Michael Mahaffey serves as Foundational Advisor, supporting continuity of Cedar Springs Lodge’s original vision and providing guidance as Healing Through Hope carries forward the lodge’s legacy of healing and reconciliation.
Abi Harmon serves in an advisory capacity, contributing expertise in retreat operations, space planning, and infrastructure development to help operationalize healing environments in alignment with Healing Through Hope’s mission and stewardship responsibilities.
This leadership and governance structure ensures continuity of the organization’s founding vision while strengthening its capacity to steward healing environments responsibly, ethically, and sustainably for future generations.