Soul Shop for Black Churches (11/9/24)

Soul Shop

Date: November 9, 2024
Time: 9:00 am - 11:00 am and 2:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location: Bethlehem Chicago French SDA church

Specifically designed for pastors, church staff, faith-based clinicians and other lay leaders in the Black and African-American churches, Soul Shop for Black Churches focuses on:

• The role of societal discrimination in suicide rates among black and brown young people
• The prominent role of the church in African-American communities and how that can be leveraged towards public health
• Statistics, trends and rates of suicide among people of color
• Challenges of and ideas for engaging issues of mental health and suicide in black churches

This program equips leaders who are on the front lines of cummunity mental health crises to minister to those impacted by all the faces of suicide. This training will not equip you to be a mental health specialist.