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 […]
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 […]
ACEs Science Champion Series: Dr. Angela Bymaster: This Faith-Based Physician Integrates ACEs Science with Healing Arts
We’re proud to share a profile of our co-founder, Dr. Angela Bymaster, featured in PACEs Connection’s ACEs Science Champion series. Dr. Angie runs her family medicine clinic out of a portable unit at Washington Elementary in San Jose, serving low-income, predominantly Latino families. Because the clinic faces the school’s drop-off line, she gets to “pick […]
Healing Grove Doctor Co-Authors Important Profile in Scholarly Journal
The Roots of Homelessness Run Deep — and So Does Our Response In “A Pediatric Profile of Homeless Patients in San Jose, California,” published in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, our co-founder Dr. Angela Bymaster helped document what so often comes before life on the street. The study found most […]