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At Oakland’s Freedom Community Clinic, Culture is Part of ‘Whole-Person Healing’- KQED News
The nimble organization led by Dr. Bernie Lim looks beyond treating symptoms to promote wellness in Oakland.
Oakland’s Freedom Community Clinic offers free medicines and other healing resources daily and host community events that invite people — especially Black, Indigenous and immigrant folks — to reconnect with the land at their Ancestral Healing Farm.
Community Organization Addresses Medical Mistrust - KALW 97.1 Bay Area
For some BIPOC people, dealing with the healthcare system can be tough. Discrimination, lack of cultural understanding, and mistreatment can lead to skepticism of the medical system.
In Oakland, health organizations like Freedom Community Clinic are responding to this long-standing issue.
At Ancestral Healing Farm’s Harvest Festival in Orinda, ‘Land Is Medicine’- KQED News
Freedom Community Clinic is all about connecting people with ancestral healing approaches from Indigenous, African and Asian traditions. At their two apothecaries, one in Fruitvale and one in downtown Oakland, they offer free and sliding-scale herbal remedies, massage services, workshops and community gatherings. And now, Freedom Community Clinic is getting ready to welcome the public to its newest resource: Ancestral Healing Farm.
As Oakland reels from gun violence, yoga instructors and acupuncturists seek to help a community heal - SF Chronicle
A park in East Oakland offered a healing respite Sunday from the gun violence that’s racked the city in recent weeks, including a shooting that injured six people at Rudsdale Newcomer High School, and the fatal shootings of two Berkeley High School students Saturday and an East Oakland resident on Sunday.
Freedom Community Clinic offers whole-person healing in Oakland - ABC7 News
OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- The Freedom Community Clinic combines western medicine with the strengths of indigenous traditional healing.
Bernadette Lim, who is in her last semester of medical school at UCSF, founded the clinic about a year and a half ago and serves as the director.
"We bring community-centered, whole-person healing to underserved communities in the Bay Area and beyond prioritizing Black, indigenous and undocumented communities," Lim said.
Rather than have residents visit an unfamiliar office or hospital, the Freedom Community Clinic goes to the neighborhoods for free. They currently provide weekly services in West and East Oakland.
Bay Area clinic serves BIPOC communities through holistic health care - SF Chronicle
Inspired by her immigrant mother’s struggles with the health care system, UCSF medical student Bernadette Lim created Freedom Community Clinic in 2019, a health and healing service that brings traditional holistic healing methods such as acupuncture, massage and Reiki to Black, brown and indigenous communities in the Bay Area. According to Lim, at least 2,300 people have been served through their pop-up clinics.