The Healing WELL received a grant for their leadership program including participant stipends, food for meetings and training for materials for wellness programming and for transportation, admission and food expenses for off-site programming and activities. “The Healing WELL offers calm in the storms of poverty and prejudice, mental illness, substance abuse and addiction. Inspired by ideals of compassion and justice, we love and guide one another so we can step further into brighter futures, healing ourselves and our greater community.” They promote healing and wellness by offering free daily sessions like meditation, yoga and 12-step support groups to an average of 160 low-income people each month. The Healing WELL is a fiscally sponsored (but financially independent) project of Community Initiatives.Through the strength and inspiration Carmen received at The Healing WELL she started volunteering at Koret House (with cancer patients). They are proud that participants in their program are inspired to go on and help others like Carmen did.