Yanawana Herbolarios
Reclaiming our inherent sacred connection to live in agreement with the land
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
There is a direct correlation between lack of health insurance and health issues leading to death. Uninsured adults are 25% more likely to die prematurely than insured adults due to the delay in seeking medical care. This delay in treatment can result in late stage diagnosis which can lead to poor treatment results and death. The uninsured also have less health care access, often receive a lesser quality of care, and frequently experience worse medical outcomes than that of the insured. They suffer death at higher rates from accidents and chronic/acute conditions. Health issues experienced by the uninsured and underinsured often stem from roots deeper than inadequate health coverage. These issues relate to the loss of independent sustainable lifestyle skills once practiced by native peoples across the U.S. As the practice of growing, foraging, hunting, and preserving one's own food has drastically reduced, so has the ability to nurture and care for the health of one's self and family.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Sowing La Futura
Sowing la Futura is an interactive ancestral skills community educational program meant to empower and create sovereignty for vulnerable populations including Indigenous, Black, and other racialized people of color, as well as LGBTQ, working-class, and houseless communities. Past programming has included adobe oven building, fire-building skills, emergency shelter building, food foraging, medicine making, water purification, weaving, and gardening. Sowing la Futura programming is open to the public and is free, donation-based, or low cost depending on the program being offered.
Community Needs Pantry
Located at Yanawana Herbolarios Headquarters on the Eastside of San Antonio, TX is our Community Needs Pantry. Through our pantry, we offer non-perishable food, menstrual supplies, harm reduction supplies, hygiene items, books, plant seeds, diapers (infant - adult), and other community donated goods. The Community Needs pantry is free and open to everyone.
Feria de Resistencia
Feria de Resistencia takes place once a month, 10 months out of the year, on the grounds of Yanawana Herbolarios. The Feria is a community event that combines education (Sowing la Futura mini-workshops), healthcare (The People's Clinic), local commerce (pop-up market with local artisans), and community connection (through connection to community resources and special themed Feria events like Trans Day of Remembrance). The monthly fairs are free and open to the public.
Medic-Healer Program
This is a high-level 2 phase educational program consisting of approximately 3,500 hours of classes, labs, clinics, and intensive field training. The first phase is spent as an apprentice, gaining a strong foundation of skills and knowledge. The second phase is spent as a journeymxn, solidifying both skills and knowledge through advanced studies, student teaching, and remote field team missions meant to test competency and readiness.
A Medic-Healer must be able to care for their people in any situation or scenario. Therefore this educational program has been designed to equip the student with a high level of personal sovereignty. Classes include (but are not limited to) - Indigenous Plant Practices, Emergency and Acute Medicine, Clinical Herbalism, Clinical Nutrition and Cooking, Advance Medicine Making, Emergency birth work, Ancestral living practices, Defense, and Cultural Competency. The program is free for those accepted and prioritizes Indigenous, Black, Racialized, and LGBTQ.
Street Clinic
Every week, several times a week, members of the Yanawana Herbolarios Street Clinic team head out to provide free trauma-informed, culturally-appropriate care to our houseless relatives, meeting them directly where their needs are at encampments, shelters, and on the street. The Street Clinic team provides a variety of services, including wound care, foot care, preventative health, diabetes management, limpias, mental health, and needs distribution (clothing, food, harm reduction, menstrual, hygiene supplies, etc.) Yanawana Herbolarios Street Medic team comprises of herbalists, curanderas, nurses, mental health professionals, nurses, and doctors.
The People's Clinic
The People's Clinic is a donation optional botanically integrative twice-monthly holistic clinic that is open to the public and located at Yanawana Herbolarios headquarters on the Eastside of San Antonio, TX. Clinic services offered through The People's Clinic include herbalism, reiki, curanderismo, accelerated resolution therapy, family counseling, trauma-informed counseling, Womxn's healthcare, and more.
Indigenous Land Restoration Project
The 5-acres of creek access land that Yanawana Herbolarios is situated on is perfectly located to provide the communities YH serves with conveniently located access to an outdoor, educational, healing community sanctuary. Wild spaces within the city are precious and rare and provide a unique opportunity to observe and be with nature. The management, revitalization, and re-indigenizing of this land will provide for educational opportunities surrounding traditional Indigenous plant medicine and land management practices, food sovereignty, and Climate Change; as well as create community food forests and gardens that will provide food, healing sanctuary, and the space to learn how to live in agreement with the land.
Project Home
Housing is a human need and right. Through Project Home, we advocate for harm reduction and no-barrier houseless shelters, the overturning of harmful local housing policies, and work to create realistic, accessible, rapid housing solutions for those experiencing houselessness.
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Yanawana Herbolarios
Board of directorsas of 02/07/2022
Jennifer Garza
Yanawana Herbolarios
Term: 2021 - 2025
Jennifer Lopez Garza
Yanawana Herbolarios
Red Rojas
Yanawana Herbolarios
Jovanna Lopez
Yanawana Herbolarios
JJ Obledo
Yanawana Herbolarios
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
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CEO oversight
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Ethics and transparency
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Board composition
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Board performance
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Organizational demographics
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