Our team
Trevor Starchuk
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Trevor is Métis and the Founder and CEO of Loud Voice Society. He holds an Associate of Arts Degree with an emphasis in Sociology and is currently completing his Bachelor of Social Work.
Trevor is the recipient of the Best Abstract Award from the Canadian Association of Social Work Educators, a nationally recognized honour awarded for the design of a five-phase full continuum of care model addressing substance use, housing instability, and systemic barriers to recovery.
His leadership integrates lived experience in recovery with academic training in social work and sociology, grounding Loud Voice Society’s programming in ethical practice, accountability, and systems-informed approaches to community-based recovery support.
Jon Matthies
Community Healing Advocate
Jon our Community Healing Advocate provides one-on-one, relationship-based support to individuals navigating recovery, gender-based violence, housing, health care, justice, child and family services, immigration-related challenges, and other complex systems.
Jon, our Community Healing Advocate, brings lived experience alongside BC Mental Health peer training, helping him provide practical, compassionate, and relational informed support to people facing complex life circumstances.
The Advocate works alongside each person to identify goals, connect with appropriate services, reduce barriers, strengthen natural and cultural supports, and build practical pathways toward safety, healing, stability, and wellbeing. Support may include systems navigation, recovery support, advocacy, referrals, connections to settlement and newcomer services, and culturally appropriate community resources.
Our approach is grounded in respect, lived experience, cultural humility, inclusion, advocacy, and the belief that every person should have a meaningful voice in the decisions that affect their life.