Co-Founder
Abdul Akbar Muhammad (Kurt Cargle) is the co-founder of The Salaam Community Wellness Center, which will provide a novel, creative, integrative, and holistic paradigm of primary care, addictions, mental health, and nutrition. Individual and group therapy, as well as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), acupuncture, yoga, tai chi, and chi gong, will be used.
In response to the health and healthcare disparities that have long plagued Chicago’s Black and Latino communities, the Salaam Community Wellness Center (SCWC) was created. This awareness was only heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on people of color. The South Side of Chicago once experienced the highest incidence of COVID-19 infections and fatalities in the entire state of Illinois.
Our hardworking team came together with the goal of using a fresh strategy to address some of these enduring disparities. Since April 2020, we have come a long way toward realizing our vision of creating a distinctive, cutting-edge, integrative, holistic model of health and wellness in the Chicago neighborhood of Woodlawn on the South Side. We have concentrated our efforts on addressing three urgent needs: nutrition, mental health, and addiction treatment.
The integrative medicine paradigm combines the best elements of western and non-western medicine. It applies both non-western principles of “prevention and wellness” as well as those of the western disease model, which emphasizes “disease and cure.” Each individual’s distinct physical, mental, and nutritional status will be assessed. They will get a treatment plan that is unique to them, and it will help point them in the direction of the best care options.
