Community Acupuncture Links
- To learn more about community acupuncture and locate community clinics around the country visit Community Acupuncture Network
- To find out more about how community acupuncture works and to learn about the purpose of Community Acupuncture Network, check out this video produced in Maryland.
- How Community Clinics Can Transform Acupuncture - an article by Pam in the Winter 2008 issue of California Journal of Oriental Medicine includes many testimonials from clients and practitioners.
- Community Acupuncture was featured in a radio piece on Marketplace by America Public Media.
- Community Acupuncture featured in a great story on Word of Mouth by New Hampshire Public Radio.
- "Acupuncture for All", Pam's article about Community Acupuncture was originally printed in Yes! Magazine, for which she is a regular contributor. Read it online or in the July-August 2008 issue of Utne Reader.
Other Helpful Resources
- Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic in Oakland and San Francisco provides free acupuncture, Chinese herbs, Western herbs, homeopathy, massage, and therapeutic imagery to low-income women with cancer.
- Healing Muses is a group of local musicians that bring a peaceful sound environment for hospitals, clinics, hospices, convalescent homes, retreat centers and homebound individuals.
- Women’s Cancer Resource Center works to empower and support women with cancer through referrals and education, a resource library, workshops and classes, support groups, peer counseling and other services.
- Wild Goose Qigong draws on traditional Chinese breathing and movement techniques. These practices were found to vitalize the body, mind and spirit, and were passed down from teacher to student for almost two thousand years. See this website for a list of Bay Area teachers, classes and free group practice sessions.
- The Healthy Skeptic is a great blog dedicated to debunking mainstream myths about nutrition, health and disease.