The Village Health Foundation is a 501 ( c ) ( 3 ) nonprofit organization formed in 2001, by Jewel Thais-Williams. Our main mission is to provide affordable, accessible, and effective professional services in complementary medicine to the community. We originally began as a natural healthcare clinic offering nontoxic treatments for people with HIV/AIDS. Our activities have expanded to include treatments for a wide range of diseases. We treat clients who are at risk for, or who have already developed diabetes, hypertension, high blood pressure, arthritis, heart disease, chronic diseases, and/or have any variety of pain issues. Our patients come from all walks of life, and all are welcome. Many of them are Latino and African Americans who have a high risk for HIV/AIDS, diabetes, hypertension, prostate cancer and breast cancer. We provide innovative, culturally-relevant preventative health education as well as therapy. Our treatment and educational programs offer practical tools for reducing the risk of disease ; for those who have an illness, we offer tools for learning to live with it.