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.
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. Check back here soon for this year’s Mental Health Awareness Month events!
Resources
Grab your CCDA Mental Health Awareness Month Bundle. Get Alees Edwards’ week-long devotional and 4 Free Mental Health Classes!
Click here to see a more comprehensive listing of Mental Health Resources.
Click here for CCDA’s Mental Health Toolkit, featuring content to deepen understanding and engagement with the CCD philosophy and mental health.
Stream
Check out 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.
FAQ
How do I register for classes?
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.
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
Dive Deeper by learning from our amazing practitioners!
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The Power of Recovery Storytelling to Bring Collective Healing – Kenny House; Yolanda House -
Refocusing Youth Ministry – Chuck Hunt -
Healing Trauma through Elevating Stories – Lionel Latouche, LCSW -
Discover Persevering Power for Sustaining Healthy You, Family, and Ministry – Bruce Strom, Helen Strom -
Respecting the Line: Practices for Church Mental Health and Boundaries – Lyndal Bedford, LCSW -
Impact of Incarceration on the Psyche -
From Pieces to Peace-Healing the Fragmented Parts -
How to Keep the Fire without Burning Out
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