Programs
Education
Public Education Program
1. Classes on various integrative health and healing related topics are offered to the public in the Choices Foundation classroom or other appropriate facilities. These classes are presented using a schedule that meets the needs of the material to be covered. Cost to the public covers the stipend for the teaching staff and teaching materials where possible. Scholarships will be available for students without the means to pay whenever possible in keeping with the spirit of a public benefit corporation.
2. Special seminars and conferences geared to local, national and international interest in topics of integrative medicine, health and healing practices will be offered to the public at the Choices Foundation facility, or at another appropriate facility when additional space is needed. Some programs may be offered in conjunction (co-sponsorship) with other local or national not-for-profit tax exempt educational organizations.
3. Free public awareness
talks on a broad spectrum of integrative medicine topics are presented by
experts in appropriate fields, and offered in hour long lecture format on
a monthly basis at Choices classroom facility.
Health Professional Continuing Education Program
1. Lectures on various integrative health and healing related topics will be offered to health care professionals at the Choices Foundation. Programs are offered in conjunction Joint or co-sponsorship) with other local or national not for-profit tax exempt educational organizations.
2. Special
seminars and conferences geared to local, national and international topics
of integrative medicine, health and healing practices will be offered to health
care professionals at the Choices Foundation facility or other appropriate
facility. Some programs may be offered in conjunction (co-sponsorship) with
other local, state or national not-for-profit tax exempt education
organizations.
Integrative Medicine Library Service
1. Choices
Foundation will develop a reference library dedicated to the acquisition and
dispensation of information and knowledge related to the field of integrative
medicine and related topics for use by the public and health care professionals.
This library is currently located at the World Research Foundation facility in
the Village of Oak Creek, Sedona, Arizona.
Research
1. The purpose of the intended research is to elucidate the usefulness of various approaches to diagnosis and therapy currently used in the integrative medicine field with regard to their impact on the health and well being of the human family.
2. Integrative medicine research study design analysis and development is the first research project at Choices Foundation. This program will facilitate the advancement of research study design needed to address the special research study needs of other systems of healing whose features are not amenable to conventional study, and the special needs of the integrative approach. It is the intention of Choices Foundation, through its research activities, to foster the development of international standards of integrative medicine research and assist in the development of an international integrative medicine database.
3. Outcomes,
efficacy, safety and cost-effectiveness studies on various modalities used in
treatment of patients in outpatient integrative medicine practice will be
performed using rigorous scientific standards appropriate to the modality being
studied. These programs will be carried out at integrative medicine clinics,
including, but not limited to the Choices Integrative Healthcare of Sedona
facility. Multi-center studies are planned in conjunction with other similar
clinics in the U.S. and internationally. These studies will include evaluation
of diagnostic and therapeutic techniques used in non-conventional systems of
healing (i.e. non-allopathic).