Develop Ministry Knowledge and Skills to Assist All in Your Community
These courses provide the awareness of mental health issues, along with best practices and effective strategies, and resources to better serve your community members. Provide the leadership in your work place that benefits all members by expanding your skills to include those suffering from mental illness and disorders and communicate acceptance within your community by others.
Who Should Attend
These courses provide continuing education for lay ministers, religious priests, deacons, and school administrators interested in implementing mental health ministries in their parishes or schools.
Benefits
Completing courses in this series is a way to enhance your leadership skills and earn professional development credits.
Additionally, the opportunity to make an important difference in the life of a community member is a compelling reason to learn how to intervene and support those struggling with thinking, mood and behavior challenges, and to educate other community members as well to how they can also provide support.
Program Details
Enroll in one or more courses in this series to earn graduate level extension credits.
You can expect the following from Online Fixed-Date courses:
- You can go online when convenient each week, completing weekly course assignments
- As long as you have access to the Internet (and any text book requirements stated, if applicable), you can complete assignments
- You'll read articles and watch videos, and interact with resources provided within the course
- Discussion board and group assignments may be part of the curriculum allowing for interaction with your fellow classmates
- Completed assignments are submitted and then evaluated by assigned instructor
- Instructor interaction and feedback are provided between assignments
See each course page for required materials
- Develop basic mental health literacy as an understanding of common mental health problems
- Differentiate mental health treatment from mental health ministry
- Discover educational resources and other supports to mental health ministry
- Learn about liturgical resources for mental health ministry
- Develop a plan for implementing a mental health ministry in your faith community