STEPS FOR CREATING A MENTAL HEALTH MINISTRY 1. Make a commitment — before you begin, do some soul searching. Starting a Mental Health Ministry may take considerable time. You need to decide if you are ready to take on a long-term project. 2. Educate yourself — Learn about mental illness. You probably already have people in your faith community who have lived experience with mental illness, which will help you be understanding and compassionate with others. But if you have not already done so, we recommend you take the NAMI Family-to-Family class if you are a family member or the NAMI Peer-to-peer program if you are a person in recovery. You do not have to be an expert in mental illness to start a Mental Health Ministry, but it is helpful to have a basic understanding of the problems people are likely to face when they are dealing with various diagnoses. 3. Get buy-in from your clergy/board of d...
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