The Botanical Bus

We are a nonprofit mobile clinic that provides place-based, culturally-centered, collaborative healthcare services so that Latine and Indigenous immigrant communities experience healing justice.

Latine is a gender-neutral form of the word Latino, created by gender non-binary and feminist communities in Spanish-speaking countries.

The objective of the term is to remove gender from Spanish, by replacing it with the gender-neutral Spanish letter E, which can already be found in words like estudiante.

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What We Do

We expand access, reduce disparities, and improve health outcomes by advancing cultural belonging as a social determinant of health. Our mobile services, provided in partnership with Federally Qualified Health Centers and family service centers at community care hubs, include herbalism, nutrition, massage, acupuncture, foot care, art therapy, mindfulness, community circles, shared meals, food distribution and warm referrals into wrap-around care.

Access drives impact: 98% of participants report improved access to care. As barriers are overcome, trust, connection and self-determination grow. Nearly all participants report feeling recognized, respected, and connected to their culture and healing traditions, while gaining greater agency in caring for themselves and their families. Returning participants experience improved health outcomes, including a 20-percentage-point reduction in reported mental health symptoms. One participant shares, “At Botanical Bus clinics, I feel understood, accompanied, and empowered.”

Community-Driven Programs

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Promotoras

The Botanical Bus Promotora CHAs are a team of Latine and Indigenous women who provide trusted, culturally relevant health services to their own community through our clinic and wellness workshops as massage therapists, nurse practitioners, somatic therapists, artists, activists and herbalists.

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Wellness Workshops

The Botanical Bus Wellness Workshops, offered online, at family service centers, and as part of our clinics, empower indigenous knowledge of herbal medicine through the exchange of remedies, recipes and medicine made in community.
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Mobile Herb Clinic

The Botanical Bus Farmworker Clinics, located at vineyard worksites and family service centers, provide culturally relevant integrative health services.  Latine and Indigenous clients are welcomed with music, tamales and herbal aguas frescas.

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