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Workshops

ADNet representatives present workshops  in various settings.  Here you will find handouts and other resource materials we have developed for these workshops.

Workshops on these themes can be readily adapted and presented in additional settings.  Contact ADNet if you are interested.

  Supportive Care Revisited  

ADNet presented "Supportive Care Revisited" at Mennonite Health Assembly 2009. It grew out of our ongoing review of the booklet, Supportive Care in the Congregation , and how the model in proposed has been implemented since the booklet was first published in 1986. The following are handouts developed for this workshop.

Supportive Care Revisited Workshop Outline

Essential Ingredients in the Supportive Care Model

Supportive Care Recommended Resources

Supportive Care Compared to other movements

Theology underlying Supportive Care

Feedback Form for Supportive Care PDF

  A Healing Community in an Overstimulated World  

A Healing Community in an Overstimulated World is a workshop first presented at Mennonite Health Assembly 2008.

Responding thoughtfully to the needs of our brothers and sisters with sensory differences may give our congregations new ways to build a truly healing community for all people in the midst of bombarding stimulation in our modern world.

Related materials include:

  Mental Health and Mental Illness: A Vision for Community  
Mental Health and Mental Illness Resources,  Christine Guth and Paul Leichty 
2010 update. Mental Health resources for Christian faith communities. Includes books, videos, online resources, and training resources.

Beliefs That Contribute to the Stigma of Mental Illness,  Christine Guth 
Two-page chart showing a number of stigmatizing beliefs, the scripture sometimes misused to reinforce stigma, and additional perspectives that take the focus off stigma.

Top Ten Myths About Mental Illness,  NARSAD 
Reprint from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD), laying out clearly and concisely the facts behind the myths about mental illness.

Stigma and Silence in Congregational Worship,  Gayle Gerber Koontz 
Suggestions for dealing sensitively with mental health issues in public worship. Reprinted with author's permission from "Leader" magazine, Winter 2006-2007.

Mental Health and Mental Illness: A Vision for Community,  Christine Guth 
List of ideas and models for including persons with serious mental illness into the life of the church community.

  Empowering Families in Crisis  

Read materials compiled by Sherry Wenger and Paul Leichty for a workshop presented March 11, 2005.  The workshop was designed for persons who work with families where there is a family member with disabilities and/or mental illness. Contact us if you would like to have this workshop in your location.   

Bibliography

Questionnaire Helps Church Meet Needs of Parents from CCPD

Pastoral Care for People with Disabilities and Their Families by Bill Gaventa

  Speakers Bureau  

Would you like a speaker for a sermon, class, or workshop?  Download a list of ADNet speakers and suggested topics.  Then send us an with your invitation.

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