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Catholic Ministries and Organizations
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National Catholic Partnership oN Disability
Council on Mental Illness And WellnessAssisting the Catholic community by providing resources and education for spiritual and pastoral support.
Sanctuary ministries Course For CatholicsThe Sanctuary Course for Catholics is designed to raise awareness and start conversations in local parishes regarding mental health. The sessions are accompanied by compelling films that feature the stories of Catholics living with mental health challenges, along with the insights of archbishops, theologians, and psychologists. Partners with the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Sanctuary Mental Health Ministries is a registered charity in Canada and the United Kingdom.
Catholic Institute for Mental Health MinistryOur method is to develop, provide and facilitate an effective and responsive network of trained mental health ministry leaders in Dioceses and parishes throughout the United States.
University of Notre Dame - Fiat Program on Faith and Mental HealthRooted in the efforts of the McGrath Institute for Church Life to form faithful Catholic leaders, the Fiat Program on Faith and Mental Health generates research, teaching, and formation opportunities to inform and strengthen sacramental and pastoral care for persons with mental challenges and their families. By uplifting the dignity and goodness of each person, the Fiat Program assists dioceses, parishes, and communities in fostering a culture of communion wherein the whole person is embraced and can experience the grace of Christian friendship and the sacramental life.
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Our Mission: We offer a special spiritual care ministry for those who suffer from the “Illness of the Human Mind”
St. Luke Institute ConnectSLIconnect is the education ministry of Saint Luke Institute. SLIconnect offers resources for Catholic clergy, religious and lay leadership designed by experts in psychological and spiritual health. Our programs are affordable, accessible worldwide and consistent with Catholic teaching. Online learning through monthly live webinars and on-demand courses offers convenient opportunities for individual skill development as well as group learning and discussion.
Red Bird was founded on helping parents address the profound healing that needs to happen while also honoring the memory of the child. Our unique value is in the attention given to protect the individual, the marriage, and other relationships from a spectrum of issues that can compound and lead to dysfunction. Red Bird Ministries partners with dioceses and parishes to provide the tools and resources to support families who have experienced the loss of a child from pregnancy through adulthood.
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Our mission is to help young adults and adults with divorced and separated parents give voice to their pain and find deep spiritual healing. We do this as a Catholic, peer-led ministry by providing unique means for Christ to transform their life-draining wounds into life-giving resources of faith, hope, love, and joy for themselves, their relationships, and the Church. We also seek to help them make and sustain a life-long gift of love in either the vocation of marriage or consecrated life.
Pax in Familia is an international Catholic organization dedicated to peace, and to the prevention of violence and abuse in Catholic and Christian families.
Pax in Familia offers workshops, conferences, online courses, and educational materials in print, online, and for download on intimate partner violence in Catholic and Christian families to pastoral agents worldwide.
Calix is an association of Catholic alcoholics, drug addicts, and family members and friends affected by addiction, who are maintaining their sobriety through participation in their Catholic faith and a 12-step program. Our first concern is to interest Catholics with these problems in the virtue of total abstinence. Our second stated purpose is to promote the spiritual development of our membership. Our gathering today is an effort in this direction.
The Hem of Christ is a ministry of care that supports those living with dementia and their professional and family care partners, to re-discover and continue the practice of the faith, regardless of the stage of dementia one is living in, or the physical and financial limitations one might experience.
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Catholic Mental Health Professionals
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Many Dioceses have trained and licensed therapists and counselors on staff in their Office of Catholic Charities or Catholic Social Services. You can contact your Diocese for more information.
Below is a list of private practitioner organizations that have expressed their commitment to the Catholic faith that you may want to evaluate. (Note: This listing is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation.)
The mission of the Catholic Psychotherapy Association is to support mental health practitioners by promoting the development of psychological theory and mental health practice which encompasses a full understanding of the human person, family, and society in fidelity to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church.Catholic Psychotherapy Association
A private resource provided to help you find a qualified therapist of the Catholic faith in your area. Our mission is to provide therapy referrals and information that are faithful to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.
St. Raymond Nonnatus Foundation - Offers pastoral accompaniment for families in crsis.
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Organizations with Mental Health Resources for Faith Communities
- Pathways to Promise - Interfaith Assistance and Resource Center
- National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) - FaithNet interfaith resource network
- National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention - Faith, Hope and Life
- American Federation for Suicide Prevention - Soul Shop
- American Psychiatric Association - Mental Health and Faith Community Partnership
- Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health - Duke University
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