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 the effects of toxic stress during childhood is so profound that it actually changes one’s DNA.
Harvard Professor of Epidemiology
Dr. Tyler VanderWeele
“Americans’ growing disaffection with organized religion isn’t just bad news for churches; it also represents a public health crisis, one that has been largely ignored but the effects of which are likely to increase in coming years.”
We’re in a strange transition period right now. Americans are spending $4.1 trillion per year in health care: $12,530 per person, 19.7% of the GDP, more than twice the national average of OECD nations. And by almost every measure, we have the worst outcomes. Why? We’ve created an industrial healthcare machine that forces patients & physicians into an assembly line factory model of healing; as if we were iPhones in need of repair. We know it doesn’t work, we know it’s a waste of money, but no one can seem to change it.
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Healing Grove has built a new model based on Health Care, Soul Care, and Culture Care with a proven track record of effectiveness that scales. We’re taking these new scientific breakthroughs, and actually putting them into action. The result: HEALING. It’s amazing how well it works in individuals and communities!
Why A Place Based Clinic?
Each Healing Grove is designed to transform a particular community and a particular people group. We plant Healing Grove centers in urban inner city communities where there are a high percentage of people living in poverty, and then empower the community to transform their holistic health. Here’s what the research tells us: western medicine is helpful, but limited. Most of our health problems are rooted in individual behavior and community factors. In other words, if you want people to get better, focus on the health of the individual, the family AND the community!
Social Determinants of Health Research has shown that only 10% of your overall health can be addressed through health care, whereas 60% can be addressed through individual and community factors.
Healing Grove staff is unique! Our staff has lived in the Washington/Guadalupe community (the lowest income census tract in Silicon Valley) for a combined 90 years! All of our kids attended Washington Elementary, one of the lowest income schools in Silicon Valley. That’s our “secret sauce” of being a place based clinic practicing social determinants of health — and it’s what makes us so effective at transforming lives & communities!
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We’re all feeling the challenges of the current financial situation. Poor people in San Jose and Sacramento are being hit hard by the increasing cost of food, gas and transportation. We need your help! Donate today!