Clergy and Faith Community Leaders
Mental health challenges and substance use disorders
Interfere with the capacity of addicted individuals and their family members to develop and sustain a healthy lifestyle, relationships, and a meaningful spiritual life. Clergy and other faith community leaders have a wide array of opportunities to address these problems and lead hurting families to recovery support and healing.
Churches and faith communities can provide essential support networks to individuals who need, or are considering, or undergoing treatment for their mental illness or substance use disorder.
Terros Health has assembled the resources on this page to help clergy and other faith leaders locate the tools and information to create awareness, acceptance, and support in their faith communities.
Terros Health can help ready your faith community for assisting individual members who need treatment. We offer the opportunity to partner on Mental Health First Aid training for key community leadership or members as well as the following resources for your use. To learn more about our Mental Health First Aid training, please contact Trish Bleth.
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How do you recognize when someone is struggling with mental illness or substance use disorder? What can you expect from treatment?
Help Raise Awareness and Increase Understanding:
Interfere with the capacity of addicted individuals and their family members to develop and sustain a healthy lifestyle, relationships, and a meaningful spiritual life. Clergy and other faith community leaders have a wide array of opportunities to address these problems and lead hurting families to recovery support and healing.
Churches and faith communities can provide essential support networks to individuals who need,
or are considering, or undergoing treatment for their mental illness or substance use disorder.
Is someone in crisis right now?
Contact Mobile Crisis
1-800-631-1314 or 602-222-9444 (Central Arizona);
Crisis Response Network,
1-877-756-4090 (Northern Arizona)
Community Wide Crisis Line,
520-622-6000 (Southern Arizona)
Teen Lifeline,
602-248-8336 (TEEN)
or 1-800-248-8336 (TEEN)
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline,
1-800-273-8255
National Association for Children of Addiction (NACoA) faith community addiction resources including webinar trainings https://nacoa.org/professionals/faith-community/
FaithNet is an information exchange network of National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) members, friends, clergy and congregations of all faith traditions who wish to create more welcoming and supportive faith communities for persons and families touched by serious mental illness.