Community Health
The IHC’s Indigenous spiritual leaders and traditional medicine practitioners designed a community health direct-services model, including a mobile clinic component, to provide multilingual (English, Spanish, Maya Kaqchikel, Maya K’iche’) culturally relevant health services.
Utilizing indigenous medicine-an integrative medicine approach, that for thousands of years has aided humans in the preservation and restoration of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health, the IHC’s Indigenous practitioners have been providing care to individuals and families struggling with trauma, mental health issues (i.e. anxiety, depression, grief, anger chronic stress), and an array of physical ailments.
Consultations have included counseling, nutritional guidance, plant medicine, and other mind-body therapies. Both the in-house and mobile clinics have provided care to 150 individuals, 85% of whom are majority women, low-income, immigrant, Indigenous BIPOC families.