Education & Medical
MBA is currently partnering with Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland (CHRCO) on one medical and one school-based project. On the medical side, MBA and CHRCO are jointly carrying out a pilot project at Camp Sweeney (Alameda’s long-term youth detention camp) that utilizes MBA’s intervention as a prescription for anxiety and insomnia for youth in detention. To our knowledge, this partnership represents the first instance nationally of adolescent physicians in the probation system writing a prescription for mindfulness training as a way to counteract conditions that have been traditionally treated with pharmaceutical interventions.
MBA is also partnering with CHRCO adolescent medicine physician Dr. Tomás Magaña and the Faces for the Future program to offer mindfulness, wellness, and emotional literacy training to youth in the Oakland and Berkeley Unified School Districts. The three-year FACES internship program introduces underrepresented minority high school students to the health professions, assists them in getting into educational programs of their choice, and equips them with the necessary personal skills to succeed in these and other demanding pursuits.
