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From Disaster to Development
The Barefoot Approach to Community Trauma
How we do the work is as important as what we do.
We accompany communities in their recovery as they take control of their healthcare.
We accompany communities in their recovery as they take control of their healthcare.
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Community Health Workers offer NADA ear acupuncture
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El Paso - Shooting Response
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DisasterUnderserved Groups facing disaster, trauma, violence, and climate change confront a challenging road ahead as global disparities increase.
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ReliefBarefoot Clinics offer trauma-informed care as stress management support for survivors and first responders. We mobilize disaster response by setting up group based acupuncture.
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PartnershipWe walk with local leaders and humanitarian aid projects as they learn how to offer acupuncture as a support to their culture and economy. We train their community health workers on how to offer healthcare on their own feet.
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CommunityAs we step back, we teach community health workers how to step forward and offer their own trainings. Each partnership allows us to identify social strengths, to build on local capacities, and to support their initiatives for long term recovery.
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Why train Community Health Workers in Acupuncture and Acudetox?
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50% of the world lacks access to basic healthcare, and depend on local community workers for their healthcare. Barefoot Acupuncture Movement’s proven, step-by step curriculum, and hands-on training puts best practices in the hands of these essential workers. We teach them to offer basic, simple, and safe protocols for the most underserved people in their community.
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 Barefoot Community Acupuncture
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
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"I used to just be a housewife. But now I am a health promoter. Now I can learn other things to improve on myself.
Now I take time for myself, to love myself, so I can be there for anyone who needs my help” – Cecy, Student of our Barefoot School |
In the News
Acupuncture for displaced and incarcerated populations
How can acupuncture help communities who are incarcerated, displaced, imprisoned or facing migration? Since the late 20th century immigrants, international aid groups trained refugees and disaster relief workers in acupuncture in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Prisons have even trained their correctional staff in […]
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Culturs Magazine Features the Barefoot Collective
"To give something that can be passed on is an act of love, to teach communities to fish rather than giving out fish dinners is a demonstration of solidarity."
- Rhonda Coleman @blacupuncturist In this article, you'll meet some of the amazing acupuncture providers and teachers that are at the heart of our Barefoot Acupuncture Movement. |
Qiological Podcast: Michael Max interviews the Barefoot Acupuncture Movement
Acupuncture is a portable medicine. In the 1960’s the barefoot doctors in China took Chinese medicine into the countryside. Over the years acupuncturist’s response to natural disasters has show us that acupuncture can be practiced in makeshift shelters or tents. […]
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