because everyone deserves access to acupuncture

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Offering acupuncture is like
​“planting a

Msr Rene Blanco, Vicar, Diocese of Cd Juarez, Mexico

"I used to just be a housewife. But now I am a health promoter. Now I can learn other things to improve on myself.

– Cecy, Barefoot Health Promoter, Cd Juarez, Mexico

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Support barefoot acupuncture

Donations this year go to support the work of women in Latin America. We will be training grassroots volunteers working in some of the most underserved areas in the hemisphere how to offer care for their own people.

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We envision a more resilient world

​…where people have the tools and capacity to care for themselves and for their own communities.

breaking down

barriers

to integrative healthcare

As a 501-3-c non-profit organization, Crossroads supports the growth of clinics for the homeless, for people with addictions and psychiatric problems. We also train nurses and counselors how to offer acu based care within jails, hospitals, recovery programs, refugee care, and disaster relief.

Barefoot Acupuncture in action

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Safe space, solidarity & something more than air conditioning, OCOM Commencement address
Safe space, solidarity & something more than air conditioning, OCOM Commencement address

And he told me how frustrated he is to talk to journalists that come to write only about the problems. How all they want to do is write about the violence. And the cartels. And the war on drugs. About the corpses hanging from bridges in broad daylight. And he tells me what he really hopes for: A new story about his home town. That Juarez would become the city of peace

Valley of Sorrows: Rebuilding along the border, America Magazine
Valley of Sorrows: Rebuilding along the border, America Magazine

How can acupuncture help communities affected by war, violence and displacement?

Since 2006, the population the Valley of Juarez, a rural area outside Cd Juarez, Mexico, has dwindleed by 90% due to drug trafficking and human rights abuses. In response, local community workers have been offering Barefoot Clinics for survivors.

NPR: El Paso shooting response
NPR: El Paso shooting response

Las Cruces’ local National Public Radio station featured Crossroads’ Barefoot Acupuncture Movement’s disaster response efforts in August, 2019, at the first responder site outside of the Wal Mart where the shooting occurred.

In their story airing on KRWG Friday August 16th entitled El Paso Community, Volunteers Come Together To Mourn And Try To Heal, Reporter Anthony Moreno interviewed people receiving care at our Barefoot Clinics, with treatments like NADA ear acupuncture (Acudetox) groups.

The stories, the people, the spirit behind the work of Crossroads Acupuncture and our partners in the borderlands and beyond.

our mission

Global in scope, Crossroads Acupuncture is our local Las Cruces clinic within Crossroads Community Supported Healthcare, a 501c-3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to make bareefoot healthcare accessible and affordable to people of all income levels through the support of local communities.

donation only wednesday mornings

@ Dwell Yoga 424 N Main

These acupuncture groups are offered in community centers in our region. You will learn how to incorporate breathing, movement, and self-awareness into your life. Our acupuncturist will be available to apply simple acupuncture protocols as part of each group session. You'll leave each group with simple but powerful activities for you to take your healthcare back into your own hands.

What sets us apart from other regional clinics

  • Bilingual English/Spanish

  • We won’t require you to pay an expensive retainer in the $1000’s in order to get a single acupuncture treatment.

  • Our clinic subsidizes other free community clinics in the region.

  • We can integrate TRE, yoga and meditation training into your session

How we work

Crossroads Acupuncture partners with people and with communities to build resiliency through acupuncture.

"When you come in for acupuncture here at our clinic, you’re getting help for yourself, and you’re helping us help other community health workers who are on the front lines in their own underserved communities.”

Ryan Bemis, Crossroads Executive Director

July 2021's edition of Neighbors Magazine

Our leadership

Board of Directors:

Bob Quinn

Kelly Cook

Charles Clements

Vickie Hale

Even in a place like Juarez, Mexico

Listen to Ryan’s commencement Address at the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine’s Doctoral and Master’s graduation ceremony, where he tells the story of our Barefoot Movement