LA Fires Volunteer Information
For practitioners in the Los Angeles area: If you would like to volunteer at the firefighter basecamp at the Rose Bowl Jan 17-19 (with possible extension TBA), please read the instructions in our latest newsletter at https://conta.cc/4fVxfyz, register with IHAN and do a background check.
We are in the process of establishing more AWB clinics throughout LA County. If you would like to volunteer, please email Carla Cassler at director@acuwithoutborders.org and ensure you have the following:
- Complete AWB Training - If you have not already completed Healing Community Trauma or Repairing the Shattered Heart, we do have AWB Emergency Training. If you would like access, please reach out to Christine Cronin at christine@acuwithoutborders.org. It is free, takes 6 hours and is NCCAOM approved for 6 ACU-BIO units.
- Current California Acupuncture License
- Current Malpractice Insurance
DISASTER RELIEF CLINICS
Visit the link below to see AWB trauma relief clinics related to disaster recovery for the Los Angeles Wildfires and Southeast Hurricanes.
What we do
Acupuncturists Without Borders (AWB) provides integrative, trauma-informed care to people who have experienced physical and emotional trauma, using therapies such as acupuncture, therapeutic massage, and plant-based medicine. To increase the impact of AWB’s trauma-healing work, we train volunteer acupuncturists, physicians, nurses, midwives and other health professionals to create sustainable, collaborative programs in their own communities.
Our Impact
To see the tangible effects of our work throughout the world, please check out our 2024 Impact Report.
OUR FOCUS
At AWB, when we are asked to help, it is because a traumatic event has occurred in the area - natural disaster or human conflict. We are also called to serve in communities where there are high levels of chronic trauma present. Our work focuses on WHY the trauma occurs, more than where it occurs. Our current priorities include:
- Supporting people in complex humanitarian situations as a result of poverty, disasters and violence, forcing many to seek asylum;
- Supporting people who have been significantly affected by war and human conflict;
- Supporting people who have been adversely affected by natural disasters.
OUR APPROACH
Our approach to service is centered on the following three pillars:
1. Training for healthcare providers in trauma-informed, integrative care & community building tools, so they can sustain or develop trauma-relief projects in their own communities;
2. Material, financial & personnel support for ongoing community-based trauma-relief projects; and
3. Direct trauma-relief services for communities impacted by acute traumatic events.
