Mission/Goals

The mission of the Consortium is to advance the principles and practices of integrative healthcare within academic institutions. The Consortium provides its institutional membership with a community of support for their academic missions and a collective voice for influencing change.

Goals

1. Support and mentor academic leaders, faculty, and students to advance integrative healthcare curricula, research, and clinical care.
2. Disseminate information on rigorous scientific research, educational curricula in integrative health and sustainable models of clinical care.
3. Inform health care policy.   

Core Values

Every individual has the right to healthcare that:

• Provides dignity and respect
• Includes a caring therapeutic relationship
• Honors the whole person - mind, body, and spirit
• Recognizes the innate capacity to heal
• Offers choices for complementary and conventional therapies.