Steiner Health Annual Review and Appeal

Dear Friends and Supporters,
Greetings from the Rudolf Steiner Health Center!

This year marked a very important milestone for us: our 10-year anniversary! To celebrate this wonderful event, we held an open house in September, with demonstrations, tours, music and refreshments in the garden. With around 70 attendees, it was a busy and exciting day. Amazing to think of all the patients we were able to serve, the people who volunteered and worked here to make the last 10 years possible.

We also held our second Learn-Work-Share program in July, which brought many young adults full of life to our center. They learned so much in their first week with us, and worked through many questions about the life of healing professions in such lively conversations of which the threads could have carried on for a long time. Ten of the students stayed to help us care for low-income patients during our Support Retreat the following week to get real hands-on experience in their field of interest.

During the third week students help run a health and wellness camp for pre-teen girls, with an emphasis on learning how to cook healthy meals, keeping up their self-esteem, singing and games, and a good dose of simple health care guidelines to last a lifetime.

The program is designed to give attendees a wonderful foundation for and understanding of anthroposophic health care. Many of the past Learn-Work-Share attendees found that they learned a great deal more than they had initially imagined.

2014 will be the 3rd Learn-Work-Share youth program and we are hoping to make it a yearly occurrence as long as funding is available. Throughout the program, students are housed at the Rudolf Steiner Health Center and work closely with the staff, patients, girls, and fellow students as they learn and work with the Anthroposophic health care concepts.

Our bi-annual Fasting Weekends are going strong, and there has been such enthusiasm by participants that some have requested we extend their length to 5 days. The bees and garden are doing well thanks to Lin Schaye, Dr. Molly, and the many volunteers that assist them.
Looking ahead, we are planning to make some further improvements and re-organization on our website, as well as using Steiner Health as our overarching identifier, so that the connection between Community Supported Anthroposophic Medicine and the Rudolf Steiner Health Center is more clear and easily recalled.

We hope that you will join us in making our mission yours as well: keeping this center for anthroposophic inpatient care, education, and research going strong well beyond another 10 years. We have done so much with many helping hands, and yet have so many more hopes for improvements and expansion as well as better accessibility for those with financial needs. As a non-profit organization, your financial contributions help us to do this much needed work.
With love and gratitude,

The Staff and Board of the Rudolf Steiner Health Center and Community Supported Anthroposophical Medicine

You may make a contribution through PayPal by clicking the button above or on our website at www.steinerhealth.org/donate.
If you would like to send us a check or mail your credit card information instead, please post it to:

CSAM, 1825 W. Stadium Blvd., Ann Arbor, MI 48103

P.S. This is our first year sending out an annual appeal letter online. We are hoping to save time and resources by using this form of technology. We would appreciate hearing back if there are reactions or suggestions!