Integrative Healers Action Network

Integrative Healers Action Network (IHAN) provides the structure and support needed for integrative health practitioners to offer safe, effective, and vital trauma-informed care to evacuees and first responders during major disasters in California and beyond. IHAN-trained site coordinators establish integrative medicine clinics in emergency shelters and first-responder base camps through our community partnership with the American Red Cross. We collaborate with and organize local practitioners to volunteer their integrative medicine services and ensure the practitioner and patients safety by providing systems for oversight such as verifying licenses, malpractice insurance, and providing trauma-informed care training. Examples of the types of modalities offered in our emergency integrative medicine clinics include but are not limited to: massage therapy, naturopathic medicine, chiropractic care, acupuncture, homeopathy, osteopathy, functional medicine, and mind body medicine. Integrative medicine is uniquely able to address the multiple layers of trauma that occur during disasters because it addresses the whole person, the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual pillars of wellbeing. Integrative medicine, practiced both immediately and over the long-term, can help individual survivors, first responders, as well as entire communities, build resilience. Through integrative care, IHAN seeks to support the innate human capacity to survive and thrive during times of challenge and stress.