Adverse Child Experiences
Experience TRUE HEALING from childhood trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences. The Adverse Childhood Experience Research In the mid 1990’s a group of Kaiser physicians who were working with patients with severe chronic diseases noticed that they all had the same stories of terrible childhood events. They started studying this and found a strong relationship with […]
How to have great sex!
Follow these tips to improve your sex life! Sex is like an orchid I have this amazing purple orchid in my kitchen. Someone gave it to me years ago, and I keep watering it and moving it to the place with the right amount of light. I have read about how to repot it, and […]
NBC Bay Area: Youth Center Renaming in Memory of Maria Marcelo
Remembering Maria Marcelo, Our Co-Founder and Champion for the Community We mourn the loss of Maria Marcelo, who co-founded Healing Grove Health Center to bring mental health care, homeless assistance, and counseling to San Jose’s low-income, largely immigrant community. Maria was struck and killed by a car while leading a religious holiday pilgrimage. Tireless and […]
Healing for New Neighbors: Caring for Sacramento’s Afghan Refugees
In the past year, an estimated 85,000 Afghan refugees were resettled across the United States. Roughly 15,000 of them now call the greater Sacramento area home, and thousands more are still expected to arrive. About 70% are children. The average family arrives with five or six of them. These are not strangers from a faraway […]
A clinic that prevents violence
Almost every day, it seems, we’re hit with another heartbreaking story of violence and mass shootings. Buffalo, Uvalde, Philadelphia, Tulsa, and close to home with 5 dead in a shooting near Healing Grove’s upcoming Arden-Arcade site as well as a shooting this week at a Safeway near Healing Grove’s San Jose site. As Christians, we can’t […]
Heal Like Jesus
The essence of the Messiah (Fit into a tweet?) In Luke 7, John the Baptist asks his cousin the ultimate question from prison’s death row and receives an incredible response in less than a tweet (162 characters in Greek). The miracles of Jesus didn’t end at the cross! Because of your support, at Healing Grove, the blind […]
Social Determinants of Health in Place Based Clinics
The science is powerful! Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Only about 15% of your overall health can be addressed through medicine —the other 85% are environment, education, community, economics, and genetics. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) One of the best predicators of bad health outcomes for adults is trauma experienced during childhood. Science has shown that […]
San Jose Inside: Healing Grove Featured In Wage-Replacement Report
Healing Grove Sounds the Alarm on a Broken Quarantine Safety Net When Santa Clara County offered wage-replacement subsidies so COVID-positive residents could afford to stay home, the help rarely reached the people who needed it most. A survey of our Healing Grove clientele found that fewer than one in five eligible patients ever received the […]
San Jose Spotlight: Silicon Valley leaders ask for help solving the ‘poverty pandemic’
When the Pandemic Hit Hardest, Our Founder Helped Rally Silicon Valley In the depths of COVID-19, our executive director, Brett Bymaster, formed the United Against the Poverty Pandemic coalition, uniting San Jose, faith communities, and local nonprofits to help families facing job loss and eviction. The need was staggering: more than 14,600 county families, including […]
Mercury News Features Healing Grove’s Community Impact
On the Frontlines of the Pandemic, Our Team Reached Neighbors Directly When COVID-19 shuttered schools and jobs, families in San Jose’s Washington neighborhood, one of the city’s poorest, were left scrambling for food and rent. Our Healing Grove Health Center stepped in. Partnering with the women’s empowerment group Madre a Madre, our team recruited neighborhood […]