New Orleans Hope

Current Status:

  • 80+ health, mental health & education professionals trained in mind-body medicine since 2007
  • Leadership Training and Mind-Body Skills for Children & Teens training offered 2008
  • The Mind-Body Center of Louisiana (MBCLA), an independent non-profit, established in 2009 , offering ongoing trainings for local health professionals, mind-body skills groups, research, and assistance with integrating mind-body medicine into local institutions

 
Since the Center’s initial visit immediately following Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, we have been devoted to helping the residents of Southeastern Louisiana by training local health providers in our model of population-wide psychological healing.

Since 2007, the Center has trained more than 80 clinicians and community aid workers in mind-body medicine. Center faculty and staff have provided guidance to help participants develop an infrastructure for their work, build relationships with organizations throughout the community, and identify those in the community—most particularly poor and disadvantaged children–who could most benefit from the Center’s model.

The Center-trained Leadership Team established The Mind-Body Center of Louisiana (MBCLA) in 2009, an independent non-profit offering ongoing trainings for local health professionals, mind-body skills groups, research, and assistance with integrating mind-body medicine into local institutions.
 


 

Among the organizations which are integrating the Center’s model in their ongoing work are:

Louisiana Public Health Institute
East Jefferson General Hospital (EJGH)
West Jefferson Medical Center
Touro Infirmary
FACES – Children’s Hospital
Louisiana State University Medical School
Tulane University Medical School
Rapid Evaluation and Action for Community Health in New Orleans, Louisiana (REACH-NOLA)
Louisiana Spirit Hurricane Recovery
Fleur de Vie Clinic
Common Ground Health Clinic
Odyssey House Free Clinic

 
For further information, contact: gtr@cmbm.org


 

In New Orleans, we have been steeping in grief, loss and trauma. Many of us are stuck in those places. This training has provided me with a path out and with a compass to also guide others out of despair and helplessness.

- Mindy Milam, MSW, Private Practitioner New Orleans, LA


 

This whole city as well as relief workers are over stressed and traumatized. By helping provide this training to so many providers, you have helped not just this city but this whole region on its path to becoming whole again … this is some of the strongest healing work I have seen while still presented in an easily understood manner.

- R. Noah Morris, BA, EMT-B, Co-Founder/Director Common Ground Health Clinic, New Orleans, LA