Nikki (Nicole) LaRock is the health lead for Yakweakwioose and FNHDA Board member for Fraser Salish region Nikki (Qwe’to:llmelhet)has served as the health lead for Yakweakwioose since 2015 and was elected to sit on the FNHDA Board of Directors in 2020.

Maternally, Nikki is from Yakweakwioose and lives in the community. Paternally she is from Sts’ailes First Nation, and has three children and three grandsons and many adopted children and grandchildren that she has claimed as her own as she has worked with youth for more than 15 years.

Nikki strongly believes in her culture and cultural ways of healing. Over the past 22 years, culture has helped her overcome many mental health challenges, as she set about to learn everything she could about herself, in order to change the things she did not like and to mold herself into the person she wanted to become. Nikki has always had a passion to do all kinds of artwork which also became one of her healing methods; she teaches others about her own healing journey through a program she developed called Healing Through Art and Culture.

Nikki was brought into her leadership role on Council by her late Grandfather, Hereditary Grand Chief Frank Malloway from Yakweakwioose. Nikki brings to the table her knowledge and lived experience of the negative generational effects that haunt our families, generation after generation. She knew as a child what her purpose was, which is to change the cycles and teach this one generation at a time to help create brighter futures for our families, and uses her own journey to help others. Nikki gives thanks to her Great-Grandfather, the late Richard Malloway, and her late Grandfather Frank Malloway for keeping our culture and history strong and I promise to keep this going for the next seven generations to come.