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In May each year, Mental Health Awareness month provides an opportunity for awareness and learning at the intersection of faith & mental health. We hold space for deepening our understanding, conversations and engagement with the CCDA community, with lived experience mental health survivors, licensed professionals and CCD practitioners.

Our CCDA Behavioral Health Affinity Network teaches how incorporating CCD holistic approaches to mental health can restore & transform community, life and ministry. Check this page often to learn creative ways to integrate the spectrum of behavioral health services into CCD philosophy and practice. View mental health resources & 2024 offerings below!

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The CCDA Behavioral Health Affinity Network is excited to share curated behavioral health resources as well as professional networking opportunities to help you on your journey of learning about behavioral health. Behavioral health includes the emotions & behaviors that affect holistic wellbeing, which includes the mind, spirit, body connection. Behavioral health considers how someone’s mental and physical functioning impacts their health.

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How do we understand ourselves in a way that brings healing? What does it look like to utilize wellness as resistance? It’s impossible to effectively help others if we don’t take care of ourselves.

Stephanie Moore, LICSW facilitates healing liberation-based practices and biblical principles to form a framework to understand how our experiences shape ourselves and our communities. Experience greater holistic wellbeing and the ability to bring their best selves into our work. Utilize skills learned as takeaways and tools for use in your organizations and communities.

Join CCDA’s Behavioral Health Affinity Network facilitator Lyndal Bedford on May 9 from 12-1pm EST to hold space for deepening our understanding, sharing experiences and engaging with one another around mental health. This event offers a space for participants to engage with one another and share their experiences, knowledge, and questions around mental health and CCD. Through this conversation, participants will gain a deeper appreciation for the interconnectedness of social, economic, and spiritual factors in mental health. We will explore practical ways to support mental health within a CCD context. 

Join CCDA’s Behavioral Health Affinity Network facilitator Lyndal Bedford and Sojourner’s Lauren Reliford, LCSW on May 30 from 6-7pm EST to participate in an open mic and creative expression event focused on mental health awareness. Express yourself, your experience, your art at this Zoom open mic night. This event offers a creative outlet for participants to express their experiences and perspectives on the topic of mental health.  

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Checkout Conversations with Lyndal Bedford, CCDA’s Behavioral Health Affinity Network co-leader, as he speaks with CCD practitioners Dr. Jeff Biddle & Turan Rush from Midian Leadership Project in Charleston West Virginia & Stephanie Ann Vander Lugt from Kinship Plot in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Mental Health Survey

Now Closed! Check back in May 2025 to take CCDA’s annual mental health survey.

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Grab your CCDA Mental Health Awareness Month Bundle. Get Alees Edwards’ week long devotional and 4 Free Mental Health Classes!

Click Here to check out a more comprehensive listing of Mental Health Resources.

Mental Health Toolkit

More information coming in October with our Mental Health Report!

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How do I register for classes?

Click on the event graphic above to register or visit ccda.org/events. Classes are at lower costs for CCDA Members. If you’d like to become a member, visit ccda.org/membership.

What is included in the Liberation-based Healing & Wellness series?

  • Three 1.5 hour sessions of teaching and conversational learning on Wednesdays between May 8-22, 2024, from 1-2:30pm EST
  • Opportunity to engage directly with the speaker and class during each session
  • Equipping attendees with the tools and evidence based practices to address the specific needs in their own contexts while still sustaining ourselves to prevent burnout
  • Participants will be able to utilize skills as tools for use in their organizations and communities
  • Please see individual class descriptions for more information here

What is included in the Mind My Space: A Talk About Mental Health event?

  • A one hour session of mental health awareness conversation within a CCD context including conversational learning and question/answer time on Wednesday, May 9, 2024 from 12-1pm EST
  • Opportunity to interact with others and share your experience
  • Discussion around mental health awareness within a CCD context, education, and discussion with conversational engagement with attendees to learn more about and address specific needs in their own contexts
  • Attendees will be able to ask questions and share in a confidential space, ask questions about community resources and ministry practices
  • This is a FREE event – Registration is required

What is included in the Free Your Mind event?

  • A one hour open mic and creative expression event focused on mental health awareness hosted by Lyndal Bedford and Sojourner’s Lauren Reliford, LCSW on May 30 from 6-7pm EST
  • The opportunity to share your experience, art, creative expression, poetry, liturgy, prayer, creations virtually
  • This is a FREE event – Registration is required

Who are the events and resources for?

Anyone interested in sharing their experience and learning more about, discussing, going deeper in their understanding of mental health and its impact, and expanding their understanding of Christian Community Development philosophy & praxis in relation to mental health.

Other questions?

Contact Mary Beth at marybeth@ccda.org

Behavioral Health Resources

Grounding Techniques to Help Regulate Your Nervous System

Resources for Support & Flourish

Mental Health Screening Tool

AAPI Mental Health Resources

Black Mental Health

Racial & Cultural Trauma Resources

Native American Mental Health Resources

Latinx Mental Health Resources

LGBTQIA+ Mental Health Resources

Non Carceral Mental Health Resources

Self Care

Trauma-Informed Care & Healing Centered Engagement

Trauma-Informed Ministry & Faith-Based Programs

BIPOC Mental Health & Supportive Resources

Child & Youth Mental Health

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We would love for you to join us! We meet to connect, share resources, provide encouragement & support, learning about opportunities for CCDA involvement, and share creative ways to integrate the spectrum of behavioral health services into CCD philosophy and practice. 

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Membership has always been a way for us to accomplish our mission and vision. We want you to succeed in your work, so we created a structure that will sustain our work of inspiring, training and connecting individuals and organizations just like you. We are constantly striving to update and scale the resources available to our members so that you have the tools you need to complete the good work to which God has called you. Many of these member opportunities you will see below! You can join for as low as $10/month.

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