AWB began in 2005 in response to Hurricane Katrina, when we took a team of acupuncturists to New Orleans to treat victims of that disaster with the NADA protocol.

The Vision for AWB emerged from that experience. Over the past 20 years, our work has grown way beyond disaster relief with an emphasis on creating long-term programs to address acute, chronic, structural and intergenerational trauma.

HOW AWB fulfills its mission:

We provide acupuncture and other integrative medicine services for communities affected by disaster, human conflict, environmental devastation, systemic trauma, etc.

• Community-style acupuncture (treatments are done in a group, with clients sitting fully clothed in a circle, receiving ear acupuncture) to relieve stress and trauma and promote hope, calm, determination, and healing. Other integrative modalities are often included in our clinics. 
• We only go to places where we are invited to work! We always work with local organizations to aid recovery, rebuilding, and trauma resolution. Alliances with local, community-based organizations. We try to build sustainable relationships over time !
• Training acupuncturists and health care workers to treat stress and trauma, and develop disaster relief and trauma treatment projects in their own communities, is a primary part of our mission!