Twin Lakes College of the Healing Arts Community Outreach Programs

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Community Outreach Programs

The Twin Lakes College of the Healing Arts community outreach programs provide opportunities for our students to share the benefits of healthy touch with various groups in our community. We are proud to support our community by providing information about massage and by providing massage to seniors, students, farm workers, and other health care practitioners.

We have worked to develop outreach programs with under served groups in our community including people living with mental illness, women in prison, women living with domestic violence, nursing home residents, people living with HIV/AIDs.

"Becoming part of our outreach volunteers offers students the opportunity to earn credit by accumulating externship hours while developing their skills in many different levels and most importantly being of service to humanity in a meaningful way."
Maria Teresa Woythaler, Outreach Programs Coordinator

Senior Citizens Outreach Massage: Massage and Healthy Touch

Senior Citizens Massage Outreach has been part of our Level I Massage Practitioner 200 Hr Certificate program since 1982. One afternoon a week, beginning students, under faculty supervision, share massage with seniors in our community. Students have the opportunity to practice their newly learned skills and the seniors receive the benefits of healthy touch at several local Senior Centers.

High School Outreach: Massage and Healthy Touch

Incorporating healthy touch into high school health education is a step towards fostering self-assurance, positive self-image, and self-acceptance. Twin Lakes College of the Healing Arts intermediate and advanced students, under faculty supervision, participate in health fairs and career fairs at high schools in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties. We share information about healthy touch and the healing arts profession, and provide seated massage for students attending the fairs.

Hospital Outreach: Massage and Healthy Touch For Care Givers

Our Hospital Outreach program gives intermediate and advanced students at Twin Lakes College an opportunity to experience a clinical setting (under supervision) where the healing arts are incorporated in a medical setting. Our internship program at a local hospital provides the nursing staff at the Intensive Care Unit with 15-minute seated massage sessions.

UCSC University Outreach: Massage and Healthy Touch For Educators

Intermediate and advanced students share massage with all the employees of the University of California system at their annual retreat. We provide seated massage and provide information about the healing arts as preventative care.

Farm Worker's Outreach: Massage and Healthy Touch Education

Our Farm Worker's Outreach provides education about stress release and basic seated massage strokes that this population can use for each other and their families.