About Us
Our Clients
We are located on Milwaukee’s Near Southside in Walker’s Point -- the hub of Milwaukee’s Latino community, including many first-generation immigrants.
In 2020, the typical client at our Walker’s Point Clinic reported as female (77%), Latino (81%), and was 43 years of age. She utilized two of our services and was most likely to live in 53215 or 53204 (38% & 18% respectively), reported a household income of less than $20K (54%), and lived in a household with 2-3 other people (65%). Many of our clients are referred by family and friends (50%) or Aurora Walker’s Point Community Clinic (12%) in the same building.
We also partner with the Sojourner Family Peace Center on 6th and Walnut to provide natural healing therapy on Milwaukee’s Northside. Overall, the typical client in 2020 reported as female (95%), African American or white (38% & 30%, respectively), and was 34 years of age. She utilized 1 service, reported a household income of less than $30K (59%), and lived in a household with 1-3 people (80%). Most of our clients at this location were referred by S-FPC advocates (50%) or FPC staff (39%).
The primary reasons for visit are similar each year. Pain (of any kind) is the primary reason people come for visits, with anxiety and depression the next most frequent. When people begin a journey to resolve pain or depression, they often notice how their emotional, physical, and spiritual selves are intertwined. Our services, then, honor and treat the whole person to help clients to heal in body, mind, and spirit. This is a deeper kind of healing – healing our core – so that we are free to seek healthy patterns and live full lives.
Over the years, CORE El Centro has seen trends in the kind of healing and support that people seek, and we are able to design treatment, counseling, and other activities around these unique needs:
Trauma and Healing: Since CORE El Centro opened in 2002, we have worked with many survivors of physical, sexual and emotional trauma. What we have seen is that trauma wreaks havoc on an individual’s body and psyche. Every traumatic experience an individual has is embossed into the nervous system and cells of the individual which may cause physical, emotional and spiritual challenges. To heal from trauma the human body needs to release the experience physically and emotionally in a safe environment. In October of 2019, CORE began a partnership with Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) which helps to fund treatment for individuals who qualify.
Thriving with Cancer: CORE El Centro offers the services of the Thriving with Cancer Program at no cost to individuals living with cancer as well as the caretakers of those individuals. Thriving with Cancer compassionately augments conventional cancer treatment with affordable, natural, integrative, and holistic therapies specifically tailored to help those diagnosed with cancer, and those around them, live whole, healthy lives. Read more about our Thriving with Cancer program. This program is funded in large part by our Whole-in-One Golf Outing and Fundraiser every August.