- Friday
Morning, 10:30 am, 9-24-10
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- 1. We
CareFaith and Mental Health Rev. Craig Rennebohm
- Exploration of the
connection between faith and mental health in our
faith communities.
- The Rev.Craig
Rennebohm, worked for 23 years on the streets of
Seattle with individuals who are homeless
struggling with serious mental illness, substance
abuse issues and PTSD. He is the author of Souls
in the Hands of a Tender God.
- 2. A2A: Any
Body, Every Body, Christs Body Rev. Peggy Dunn
- This is an invitation to
be engaged in the congregational guide for faith
communities becoming accessible to all.
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- The Rev. Peggy Dunn
is the current chair of the UCC Disabilities
Ministries Board and isMaine the director of the
Conference Academy for Congregational Life and
Leadership.
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- 3. Bringing
them All Back Home and Whole: Helping those
affected by war to spiritually heal Rev. Peter
Bauer
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- The Rev. Peter Bauer
is Lieutenant Colonel, Medical Service Corps
Officer and Chief, Marriage and Family Therapy
Program, Department of Social Work, Carl R.
Darnallo Army Medical Center, Fort Hood, TX.
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- 4. In Our Own
Voice, (IOOV)
- Presented by National
Alliance on Mental Illness--NAMI St. Louis, In
Our Own Voice is a unique public education
presentation that offers insight into the hope
and recovery possible for people living with
mental illness. Trained individuals living with
mental illness lead a brief, yet comprehensive
and interactive, presentation about mental
illnesses.
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- 5. Spiritual
Support Group
Nancy Kehoe, Ph.D., RSCJ
- What does spirituality
bring to the process of recovery? How can you
offer one in your context.
-
- Nancy Kehoe, Ph.D.,
RSCJ, is a clinician with more than 25 years of
experience incorporating religious belief and
spirituality and their role in treatment with
persons who have a mental illness/brain disorder.
Her book is, Wrestling with our Inner Angels:
Faith, Mental Illness, and the Journey to
Wholeness.
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- 6. Ask the
Professional
Dr. Kim Johnson, Psy.D
- What questions do you
bring to explore in the interaction between brain
disorders and behavior? You will learn about what
a neuropsychologist does.
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- Dr. Kim Johnson,
Psy.D., is a clinical neuropsychologist and
Licensed Specialist in School Psychology who
specializes in understanding and evaluating the
relationship between brain disorders and
behavior. She evaluates individuals 4 years old
through senior adult for a wide range of learning
problems, developmental delays, autism, ADHD,
traumatic brain injury, complex medical and
neurological problems, emotional-behavioral
disorders, brain injuries, strokes and various
neurodegenerative disorders.
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- 7.
Disabilities and mental illness/brain disorders
in worship and supportive resources for clergy
and church members: A Panel Rev. Dr. Jane
Fisler Hoffman, Rev. Bob Molsberry, and Rev.
Martie McMane
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- The Rev. Dr. Jane
Fisler Hoffman, has served in the United of
Christ as lay leader, pastor, Association and for
10 years as a Conference Minister in two
conferences.
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- The Rev. Bob
Molsberry is Conference Minister for the Ohio
Conference of the United Church of Christ. A
wheel-chair user is the author of two books on
adjusting to the culture of disability: Blinded
by Grace: Entering the World of Disability and
Tour de Faith: A Cyclists Lessons for
Living.
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- The Rev. Martie
McMane is the Senior Minister of The First
Congregational Church, Boulder, CO, where she
initiated a Mental Health Ministry and encouraged
the church to vote for the Accessible to All
(A2A) covenant.
- Friday
Afternoon, 2:00 pm, 9/24/10
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- 1. We
CareBuilding a Mental Health Team in a
Local Congregation. Rev. Craig Rennebohm
- What are the practical
steps you can take in addressing mental health
issues in your congregation? What are the
barriers and the strengths?
-
- The Rev.Craig
Rennebohm, worked for 23 years on the streets of
Seattle with individuals who are homeless
struggling with serious mental illness, substance
abuse issues and PTSD. He is the author of Souls
in the Hands of a Tender God.
-
- 2.
Disabilities Ministries: Doing Disability
Theology in the Local Congregation. Dr. Debbie Creamer
- We will explore the ways
that theology has been helpful and/or a hindrance
as congregations engage in embracing our own
disabilities.
- Dr. Debbie Creamer is
Assistant Professor of Theological Bibliography
at Iliff School of Theology and co-chair and a
founding member of the Religion And Disability
Studies Group of the American Academy of
Religion. She is the author of Disability and
Christian Theology: Embodied Limits and
Constructive Possibilities.
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- 3. Family to
Family. Liz
Birchen and Rev. Alan Johnson
- This National Alliance on
Mental Illness (NAMI) program is for families,
partners and friends of individuals with serious
mental illness. We will share personal stories,
be invited to share in an exercise, and to learn
about the resources for help us all cope when we
are affected by mental illnesses/brain disorders.
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- Liz Birchen will talk
about this program and will offer practices as
well as resources on the emotional responses
families have the trauma of mental illness. Liz
will start by telling her story as a parent of
two adult children with mental illness. Liz has a
bachelors degree in Christian Education and
Psychology and Masters in Religious
Education from Eden Seminary. She has served as
Christian Educator at two UCC congregations and
directed a seven-county Head Start program.
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- The Rev. Alan Johnson
has participated and then co-facilitated the
Family to Family program because of his
familys experience of mental illness/brain
disorders. He is a cofounder of the Interfaith
Network on Mental Illness in Boulder, CO, and is
chair of the UCC Mental Illness Network. He is a
graduate of Yale Divinity School and was a
chaplain at University Hospital and then retired
from The Childrens Hospital, both in
Denver. He served for 16 years on the national
staff of the UCC. His book is Encounters at the
Counter: What Congregations can learn about
Hospitality from Business.
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- 4. Spiritual
Guidance and Practices. Rev.
Tom Haller and Rev. Donna Smith-Pupillo, RN, and
a Pastoral Counselor (TBA)
- We all need some direction
when we are facing crises in our life and/or in
the lives of those we love or those in our
congregations. We will explore ways you gain
strength of spirit as you live with these crises.
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- The Rev. Tom Haller
is chaplain at St. John's Mercy Hospital,
Washington MO. Tom has a heart felt passion to
work with the mentally ill and their families.
His life experiences include being associate UCC
pastor, chaplain/counselor in a behavioral
health/detox unit, staff supervisor at Emmaus
Homes for the Developmentally Disabled, and
volunteer with Suicide/Crisis intervention. Prior
experiences to those include social worker,
teacher, military intelligence analyst, marketing
manager, and stock broker. He experienced having
a mother who was a dual diagnosis of
alcoholism/depression and he personally
experienced three clinical depressions and a
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). He is a Survivor by
God's grace.
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- The Rev. Donna
Smith-Pupillo, RN is the Executive Director of
the Deaconess Parish Nurse Ministry Network. She
is registered nurse for over 30 years and has
worked as camp nurse with adults with
developmental disabilities for seven years. She
has worked nine years at SSM-DePaul in behavioral
medicine specializing in adults with
developmental disabilities and geriatrics. Her
love of parish ministry and nursing has led her
to work currently with parish nurses in St Louis
who serve in a variety of parishes and faith
based organizations.
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- Pastoral Counselor.
(TBA)
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- 5.
Childrens Mental Health Issues. Betty Kramer and Dr. Kim
Johnson
- The National Alliance on
Mental Illness offers a class on childrens
mental health that you can use in your context.
Learn about the many ways that mental health
issues can be addressed with children.
-
- Betty Kramer is a
foster parent, adoptive parent, and family member
of person with mental illness. Professionally
trained as a nurse, she currently is a hospice
nurse, volunteer with NAMI, leads a new NAMI
class they offer on children's mental health. She
also leads a support group for families with
children with mental illness.
-
- Dr. Kim Johnson,
Psy.D., is a clinical neuropsychologist and
Licensed Specialist in School Psychology who
specializes in understanding and evaluating the
relationship between brain disorders and
behavior. She evaluates individuals 4 years old
through senior adult for a wide range of learning
problems, developmental delays, autism, ADHD,
traumatic brain injury, complex medical and
neurological problems, emotional-behavioral
disorders, brain injuries, strokes and various
neurodegenerative disorders.
-
- 6. Shared
Challenges, Shared Gifts: Coping with Mental
Illness/Brain Disorders and Disabilities in the
Family of Faith. Rev. Ellen H.
Hiatt, Rev. Joan Murray, and Dr. Marc A. Wessels
- There are difficult times
in our lives when we turn for spiritual support,
especially we hope in our faith communities. In
contexts as in a state hospital, with those who
are homeless, and those who are in prison, you
will learn about ways of offering help.
The Rev. Ellen H. Hiatt is
the chaplain at Anderson Hospital, Maryville, IL. She
formerly served as Spiritual Care Director at
Deaconess/Forest Park Hospital in St. Louis and as
Community Liaison chaplain at St. Louis State Hospital
where she developed MORNMI: Missouri Religious Network on
Mental Illness. She also is a cofounder of UCC MIN and
began her ministry in a St. Louis congregation and
currently is an active member at First Congregational
Church of St. Louis, UCC.
The Rev. Joan Murray is a
community chaplain at Chaplains on the Way
(www.chaplainsontheway.org), a ministry she founded in
June, 2008 in Waltham, MA. As community chaplain, she
provides a ministry of presence and spiritual care to
poor and homeless people at programs and on the street.
Until this past April when the hospital closed, Joan also
spent a day a week as a chaplain at Westborough State
Hospital. Prior to being a chaplain in Waltham, Joan was
minister of common cathedral, the outdoor church of
Ecclesia Ministries in Boston. Joan is a long-time member
of Wellesley Congregational (Village) Church, UCC, in
Wellesley, MA.
Dr. Marc A. Wessels is
Associate Conference Minister with the Missouri Mid-South
Conference of the United Church of Christ. Dr Wessels
served for nearly a decade as a chaplain in
medium-security adult male institutions with the Kentucky
Department of Corrections and as a full-time member of
the Kentucky Parole Board. He served at the Kentucky
State Reformatory (KSR) which houses the Correctional
Psychiatric Treatment Unit where inmates who have been
adjudicated and convicted of crimes or crimes and have
been diagnosed with a mental illness are housed. KSR
provides substance abuse and sex offender treatment
programs, as well as meeting the medical needs of the
general and geriatric population, hospice patients and
the largest segregation unit in the Commonwealth of
Kentucky. Dr. Wessels is an ordained UCC minister with
dual standing with the Disciples of Christ and has worked
in international and national settings. He is a published
author and is the Founder and Director the Space
Exploration Archive, a non-profit educational
organization committed to the peaceful uses of Outer
Space.
- 7. Losing
Heart? Chaplain
Bridget Smith
- Help and Hope for persons
struggling with the realities of substance abuse
and addiction: Help is available and change is
possible. Learn more about how people of faith
arehelping others increase their motivation for
change and are using coaching as a method for
helping persons enter and sustain recovery.
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- Chaplain Bridget
Smith will lead the presentation along with her
colleagues from the substance abuse treatment
community. Bridget has a passion for ministry
with those who are in the midst of trauma, change
and transition. She has served in the inpatient
psychiatric setting, hospice, general hospital,
parish and state government settings helping
those who suffer with mental illness, addiction
and homelessness find hope and healing.
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- Saturday
Morning, 10:30 am, 9/25/10
-
- 1. We
CareCompanionship Training.
- This hands-on training is
a dynamic way to extend your compassion to those
who are in need. Learn about being a companion on
someones journey.
-
- The Rev.Craig
Rennebohm, worked for 23 years on the streets of
Seattle with individuals who are homeless
struggling with serious mental illness, substance
abuse issues and PTSD. He is the author of Souls
in the Hands of a Tender God.
-
- 2.
Disabilities Ministries: Beyond Elevators:
Creating Inclusive Congregations.
- Now that you really get
it, what do you do with it? Explore ways that
congregations can take the journey to make
inclusion a reality.
-
- Dr. Debbie Creamer is
Assistant Professor of Theological Bibliography
at Iliff School of Theology and co-chair and a
founding member of the Religion And Disability
Studies Group of the American Academy of
Religion. She is the author of Disability and
Christian Theology: Embodied Limits and
Constructive Possibilities.
-
- 3. In Our Own
Voice, IOOV.
- Presented by National
Alliance on Mental Illness--NAMI St. Louis, In
Our Own Voice is a unique public education
presentation that offers insight into the hope
and recovery possible for people living with
mental illness. Trained individuals living with
mental illness lead a brief, yet comprehensive
and interactive, presentation about mental
illnesses.
-
-
- 4. Bringing
them All Back Home and Whole: Helping those
affected by war to spiritually heal. Rev. Peter Bauer
-
- The Rev. Peter Bauer
is Lieutenant Colonel, Medical Service Corps
Officer and Chief, Marriage and Family Therapy
Program, Department of Social Work, Carl R.
Darnallo Army Medical Center, Fort Hood, TX.
-
-
- 5. Spiritual
Support Group
Nancy Kehoe, Ph.D., RSCJ
- What does spirituality
bring to the process of recovery? How can you
offer one in your context.
-
- Nancy Kehoe, Ph.D.,
RSCJ, is a clinician with more than 25 years of
experience incorporating religious belief and
spirituality and their role in treatment with
persons who have a mental illness/brain disorder.
Her book is, Wrestling with our Inner Angels:
Faith, Mental Illness, and the Journey to
Wholeness.
-
-
- 6. Speaking
about disabilities and mental illness/brain
disorders in worship and supportive resources for
clergy and church members: A Panel
-
- The Rev. Dr. Jane
Fisler Hoffman, has served in the United of
Christ as lay leader, pastor, Association and for
10 years as a Conference Minister in two
conferences.
-
- The Rev. Bob
Molsberry is Conference Minister for the Ohio
Conference of the United Church of Christ. A
wheel-chair user is the author of two books on
adjusting to the culture of disability: Blinded
by Grace: Entering the World of Disability and
Tour de Faith: A Cyclists Lessons for
Living.
-
- The Rev. Martie
McMane is the Senior Minister of The First
Congregational Church, Boulder, CO, where she
initiated a Mental Health Ministry and encouraged
the church to vote for the Accessible to All
(A2A) covenant.
-
- 7. Ask the
Professionals.
Dr. Kim Johnson, Psy.D and Jennifer
Starks
-
- Dr. Kim Johnson,
Psy.D., is a clinical neuropsychologist and
Licensed Specialist in School Psychology who
specializes in understanding and evaluating the
relationship between brain disorders and
behavior. She evaluates individuals 4 years old
through senior adult for a wide range of learning
problems, developmental delays, autism, ADHD,
traumatic brain injury, complex medical and
neurological problems, emotional-behavioral
disorders, brain injuries, strokes and various
neurodegenerative disorders.
-
- Jennifer Starks is
a training specialist with Touchpoint Autism
Services in St. Louis and does in-home training
of parents. She is also the parent of a child
with disabilities. TouchPoint is a caring
community of professionals who are dedicated to
improving the quality of life for individuals and
families that are affected by autism. Jennifer
will give an introduction to Autism Spectrum
Disorders and share some strategies for working
with children with ASD in the congregation.
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