Resources for Students
Since the founding of our school, we have focused on creating a program that is accessible to our local Oakland community and to our local Chinese community in Oakland Chinatown. This means offering a robust DAOM program, offering a MAcCHM in both English and Chinese, having more Chinese faculty and admin, being the most affordable program, accepting VA/Veteran’s financial aid, offering a Black Lives Matter scholarship for local activists, providing tutoring services for students without strong academic backgrounds, accommodations for students with disabilities, preparing our students for licensing exams and their future careers, and providing alumni services geared towards helping our graduates achieve stable careers.
Current students and alumni: For information on tutoring, study groups, student groups, cohort meetings, campus events, student council, wellness and mental health referrals, housing and food insecurity resources, career services, and more, join the school Slack channel or email studentsupport@acchs.edu. For academic advising, email advising@acchs.edu for the MSTCM program or daom@acchs.edu for the DAOM program.
Disability Services
Current students are eligible for reasonable and appropriate accommodations depending on the specific nature of their disabilities. Disability verification in the form of a certified document from a qualified, credentialed medical professional must be provided to the ACCHS administration office. Please meet with the dean of students or program administrator for more information on how to request accommodations based on your medical care provider’s recommended accommodations.
Title IX and Grievance Procedures
ACCHS is committed to providing a work and academic environment that is free of discrimination. In keeping with this commitment, the Academy vehemently prohibits sexual, racial, and other forms of harassment by its faculty, staff, and students. The Academy maintains a policy that prohibits harassment on the basis of sex, race, religion, color, national origin, disability, medical condition, marital status, age, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local ordinance or regulation. The Academy maintains a strict policy prohibiting any form of unlawful harassment, including sexual harassment in any form, as well as including verbal, physical, and visual harassment.
ACCHS staff members responsible for Title IX reporting, investigations, hearings, and appeals receive extensive training to ensure all processes are thorough, efficient, and unbiased. The content and materials used for staff training can be found in the ACCHS Title IX Training Manual. Students receive training in Title IX, grievance procedures, and preventing sexual harassment.
Per our open door policy, students can approach any admin/staff member with an unofficial complaint to be offered support services and be informed of the grievance processes. Students can seek assistance from the Title IX Coordinator, who can guide the student through the reporting process and provide access to important resources and support services. If it is determined that any of the individuals involved need immediate medical care, the first priority is to make sure those individuals receive the necessary medical attention. If a student wishes to pursue internal action within the college, an Anonymous Complaint Form should be completed and submitted to the Title IX Coordinator. The accused also has a right to submit a counter-complaint by completing an Anonymous Complaint Form.
Questions, concerns, or reports regarding harassment and discrimination should be directed to the ACCHS Title IX Coordinators:
Anonymous Complaint & Incident Form
, Acting Title IX Coordinator
Email (@acchs.edu) or
Diversity and Inclusion
Our community at ACCHS celebrates the diversity of our students, faculty, staff and board members. The mission of ACCHS since our founding has centered around connection to our local community. Our school was and remains the most affordable acupuncture school in California as part of our mission to be accessible to that local community. In the words of our President, Andres Bella, “Our aim has always been to pursue, through the medium of medical learning, the goal of an ideal society and civilization, and to make a significant contribution towards the development and prosperity of mankind”.
We believe that diversity and cultural humility improve not only our learning environment, but the communities that ACCHS serves and that our students will go on to serve themselves. We aim to create an inclusive school for people of all identities. This includes, but is not limited to sexual orientation, gender identity and presentation, racial identity, nationality, citizenship status, ability, religion, socioeconomic status, and veteran status.
As one of the few acupuncture schools focused in Classical Chinese Medicine, we seek to honor and restore the roots of this medicine as it was meant to be practiced. We honor not only the medicine itself, but also the Chinese culture that it comes from–this is why we are the Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences.
ACCHS sits on the territory of Huichin, the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo speaking Ohlone people. We not only honor this history, but also recognize that their descendants, members of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, still live and thrive here today. We recognize that our school and community benefit from the use and occupation of this land and as such place great importance on honoring our connection to this place.