Volunteer and Donations Annex - ECHO: Bob DiegelmanVFemergency
Participants will learn how volunteers, resources and monetary donations will be managed after a Fairfax County disaster. The workshop outlines how volunteer and donation management is collaborated between faith and community based groups, non-profit organizations, business and government during and after a disaster. Community organizations responding to disasters will also learn how they can become a part of this Annex to secure additional resources such as volunteers and donations.
On Wednesday, March 8, 2017, Episcopal Migration Ministries hosted Love in Action: Episcopal Churches Welcome Refugees, a free, one-hour educational webinar. Attendees learned about community efforts born out of Episcopal congregations to create a welcoming community for refugees and immigrants. Three faith communities shared stories about their local community and interfaith initiatives to create a ministry of welcome. Presenters were West Virginia Interfaith Refugee Ministry, Northern Virginia Friends of Refugees, and Refugee Community Center, Allentown.
"Dèyè chak timoun gen yon fanmi e yon kilti" - Behind Every Child Is A Fami...Université de Montréal
Working with children and their families across cultures, especially during periods of cultural transition, is a complex and challenging task requiring knowledge of children’s normal growth and change under stable circumstances in their culture of origin and their host culture. While child specialists often express interest in families, differential rates of adaptation among the members of a family confound the perception and origins of children’s problems.
Furthermore, the difficulties of adaptation during times of cultural transition are inadequately conceptualized, poorly documented, and often trivialized as transitional problems of adaptation or ignored altogether under the rubric of youthful resilience. In the vocabulary of psychology, psychiatry and other professional discourses, these problems can be summed up through three complex lenses: children (development), family (attachment, relationships, transmission) and culture (the context for the first enculturation and subsequent acculturations of children).
The author examines several vignettes of children from Haitian families in Montreal experiencing serious mental health problems. The challenges of identifying patterns of cultural adaptation with these children are identified as are the requirements for an approach that is sensitive to all three crucial aspects of their predicaments—healthy growth, family relationships and cultural adaptation.
The features of Cultural Family Therapy (CFT) are outlined to demonstrate its responsiveness to the complex task of working with children across cultures. The clinical tools of CFT are summarized to guide practitioners. Vignettes highlight children coping with psychosis and trauma. The presentation concludes with a summary of gaps in current thinking and practice in working with children across cultures and a call for more studies of children in cultural transition.
Learning Objectives
1. To identify the challenges and rewards of working with Haitian children and families in cultural transition.
2. To present a model for conducting Cultural Family Therapy with families in cultural transition, adapting to living in Montreal.
3. To sensitize clinicians of the need for cultural understanding and review the clinical tools available to guide practitioners in their work across cultures.
References
Di Nicola, V. (1996). Ethnocultural aspects of PTSD and related stress disorders among children and adolescents. In A. J. Marsella, M. Friedman, E. Gerrity, & R. Scurfield (Eds.), Ethnocultural aspects of posttraumatic stress disorder: Issues, research, and clinical applications (pp. 389-414). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press.
Di Nicola, V. (1997). A stranger in the family: Culture, families and therapy. New York, Norton.
Di Nicola, V. (1998b). Children and families in cultural transition. In Clinical methods in transcultural psychiatry (S. O. Okpaku, ed.) (pp. 365-390). Washington, DC: America
Exploring the Mindfulness Understanding Its Benefits.pptxMartaLoveguard
Slide 1: Title: Exploring the Mindfulness: Understanding Its Benefits
Slide 2: Introduction to Mindfulness
Mindfulness, defined as the conscious, non-judgmental observation of the present moment, has deep roots in Buddhist meditation practice but has gained significant popularity in the Western world in recent years. In today's society, filled with distractions and constant stimuli, mindfulness offers a valuable tool for regaining inner peace and reconnecting with our true selves. By cultivating mindfulness, we can develop a heightened awareness of our thoughts, feelings, and surroundings, leading to a greater sense of clarity and presence in our daily lives.
Slide 3: Benefits of Mindfulness for Mental Well-being
Practicing mindfulness can help reduce stress and anxiety levels, improving overall quality of life.
Mindfulness increases awareness of our emotions and teaches us to manage them better, leading to improved mood.
Regular mindfulness practice can improve our ability to concentrate and focus our attention on the present moment.
Slide 4: Benefits of Mindfulness for Physical Health
Research has shown that practicing mindfulness can contribute to lowering blood pressure, which is beneficial for heart health.
Regular meditation and mindfulness practice can strengthen the immune system, aiding the body in fighting infections.
Mindfulness may help reduce the risk of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes and obesity by reducing stress and improving overall lifestyle habits.
Slide 5: Impact of Mindfulness on Relationships
Mindfulness can help us better understand others and improve communication, leading to healthier relationships.
By focusing on the present moment and being fully attentive, mindfulness helps build stronger and more authentic connections with others.
Mindfulness teaches us how to be present for others in difficult times, leading to increased compassion and understanding.
Slide 6: Mindfulness Techniques and Practices
Focusing on the breath and mindful breathing can be a simple way to enter a state of mindfulness.
Body scan meditation involves focusing on different parts of the body, paying attention to any sensations and feelings.
Practicing mindful walking and eating involves consciously focusing on each step or bite, with full attention to sensory experiences.
Slide 7: Incorporating Mindfulness into Daily Life
You can practice mindfulness in everyday activities such as washing dishes or taking a walk in the park.
Adding mindfulness practice to daily routines can help increase awareness and presence.
Mindfulness helps us become more aware of our needs and better manage our time, leading to balance and harmony in life.
Slide 8: Summary: Embracing Mindfulness for Full Living
Mindfulness can bring numerous benefits for physical and mental health.
Regular mindfulness practice can help achieve a fuller and more satisfying life.
Mindfulness has the power to change our perspective and way of perceiving the world, leading to deeper se
HANUMAN STORIES: TIMELESS TEACHINGS FOR TODAY’S WORLDLearnyoga
Hanuman Stories: Timeless Teachings for Today’s World" delves into the inspiring tales of Hanuman, highlighting lessons of devotion, strength, and selfless service that resonate in modern life. These stories illustrate how Hanuman's unwavering faith and courage can guide us through challenges and foster resilience. Through these timeless narratives, readers can find profound wisdom to apply in their daily lives.
Volunteer and Donations Annex - ECHO: Bob DiegelmanVFemergency
Participants will learn how volunteers, resources and monetary donations will be managed after a Fairfax County disaster. The workshop outlines how volunteer and donation management is collaborated between faith and community based groups, non-profit organizations, business and government during and after a disaster. Community organizations responding to disasters will also learn how they can become a part of this Annex to secure additional resources such as volunteers and donations.
On Wednesday, March 8, 2017, Episcopal Migration Ministries hosted Love in Action: Episcopal Churches Welcome Refugees, a free, one-hour educational webinar. Attendees learned about community efforts born out of Episcopal congregations to create a welcoming community for refugees and immigrants. Three faith communities shared stories about their local community and interfaith initiatives to create a ministry of welcome. Presenters were West Virginia Interfaith Refugee Ministry, Northern Virginia Friends of Refugees, and Refugee Community Center, Allentown.
"Dèyè chak timoun gen yon fanmi e yon kilti" - Behind Every Child Is A Fami...Université de Montréal
Working with children and their families across cultures, especially during periods of cultural transition, is a complex and challenging task requiring knowledge of children’s normal growth and change under stable circumstances in their culture of origin and their host culture. While child specialists often express interest in families, differential rates of adaptation among the members of a family confound the perception and origins of children’s problems.
Furthermore, the difficulties of adaptation during times of cultural transition are inadequately conceptualized, poorly documented, and often trivialized as transitional problems of adaptation or ignored altogether under the rubric of youthful resilience. In the vocabulary of psychology, psychiatry and other professional discourses, these problems can be summed up through three complex lenses: children (development), family (attachment, relationships, transmission) and culture (the context for the first enculturation and subsequent acculturations of children).
The author examines several vignettes of children from Haitian families in Montreal experiencing serious mental health problems. The challenges of identifying patterns of cultural adaptation with these children are identified as are the requirements for an approach that is sensitive to all three crucial aspects of their predicaments—healthy growth, family relationships and cultural adaptation.
The features of Cultural Family Therapy (CFT) are outlined to demonstrate its responsiveness to the complex task of working with children across cultures. The clinical tools of CFT are summarized to guide practitioners. Vignettes highlight children coping with psychosis and trauma. The presentation concludes with a summary of gaps in current thinking and practice in working with children across cultures and a call for more studies of children in cultural transition.
Learning Objectives
1. To identify the challenges and rewards of working with Haitian children and families in cultural transition.
2. To present a model for conducting Cultural Family Therapy with families in cultural transition, adapting to living in Montreal.
3. To sensitize clinicians of the need for cultural understanding and review the clinical tools available to guide practitioners in their work across cultures.
References
Di Nicola, V. (1996). Ethnocultural aspects of PTSD and related stress disorders among children and adolescents. In A. J. Marsella, M. Friedman, E. Gerrity, & R. Scurfield (Eds.), Ethnocultural aspects of posttraumatic stress disorder: Issues, research, and clinical applications (pp. 389-414). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press.
Di Nicola, V. (1997). A stranger in the family: Culture, families and therapy. New York, Norton.
Di Nicola, V. (1998b). Children and families in cultural transition. In Clinical methods in transcultural psychiatry (S. O. Okpaku, ed.) (pp. 365-390). Washington, DC: America
Exploring the Mindfulness Understanding Its Benefits.pptxMartaLoveguard
Slide 1: Title: Exploring the Mindfulness: Understanding Its Benefits
Slide 2: Introduction to Mindfulness
Mindfulness, defined as the conscious, non-judgmental observation of the present moment, has deep roots in Buddhist meditation practice but has gained significant popularity in the Western world in recent years. In today's society, filled with distractions and constant stimuli, mindfulness offers a valuable tool for regaining inner peace and reconnecting with our true selves. By cultivating mindfulness, we can develop a heightened awareness of our thoughts, feelings, and surroundings, leading to a greater sense of clarity and presence in our daily lives.
Slide 3: Benefits of Mindfulness for Mental Well-being
Practicing mindfulness can help reduce stress and anxiety levels, improving overall quality of life.
Mindfulness increases awareness of our emotions and teaches us to manage them better, leading to improved mood.
Regular mindfulness practice can improve our ability to concentrate and focus our attention on the present moment.
Slide 4: Benefits of Mindfulness for Physical Health
Research has shown that practicing mindfulness can contribute to lowering blood pressure, which is beneficial for heart health.
Regular meditation and mindfulness practice can strengthen the immune system, aiding the body in fighting infections.
Mindfulness may help reduce the risk of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes and obesity by reducing stress and improving overall lifestyle habits.
Slide 5: Impact of Mindfulness on Relationships
Mindfulness can help us better understand others and improve communication, leading to healthier relationships.
By focusing on the present moment and being fully attentive, mindfulness helps build stronger and more authentic connections with others.
Mindfulness teaches us how to be present for others in difficult times, leading to increased compassion and understanding.
Slide 6: Mindfulness Techniques and Practices
Focusing on the breath and mindful breathing can be a simple way to enter a state of mindfulness.
Body scan meditation involves focusing on different parts of the body, paying attention to any sensations and feelings.
Practicing mindful walking and eating involves consciously focusing on each step or bite, with full attention to sensory experiences.
Slide 7: Incorporating Mindfulness into Daily Life
You can practice mindfulness in everyday activities such as washing dishes or taking a walk in the park.
Adding mindfulness practice to daily routines can help increase awareness and presence.
Mindfulness helps us become more aware of our needs and better manage our time, leading to balance and harmony in life.
Slide 8: Summary: Embracing Mindfulness for Full Living
Mindfulness can bring numerous benefits for physical and mental health.
Regular mindfulness practice can help achieve a fuller and more satisfying life.
Mindfulness has the power to change our perspective and way of perceiving the world, leading to deeper se
HANUMAN STORIES: TIMELESS TEACHINGS FOR TODAY’S WORLDLearnyoga
Hanuman Stories: Timeless Teachings for Today’s World" delves into the inspiring tales of Hanuman, highlighting lessons of devotion, strength, and selfless service that resonate in modern life. These stories illustrate how Hanuman's unwavering faith and courage can guide us through challenges and foster resilience. Through these timeless narratives, readers can find profound wisdom to apply in their daily lives.
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way.pptxCelso Napoleon
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way
SBs – Sunday Bible School
Adult Bible Lessons 2nd quarter 2024 CPAD
MAGAZINE: THE CAREER THAT IS PROPOSED TO US: The Path of Salvation, Holiness and Perseverance to Reach Heaven
Commentator: Pastor Osiel Gomes
Presentation: Missionary Celso Napoleon
Renewed in Grace
What Should be the Christian View of Anime?Joe Muraguri
We will learn what Anime is and see what a Christian should consider before watching anime movies? We will also learn a little bit of Shintoism religion and hentai (the craze of internet pornography today).
In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile.
The Good News, newsletter for June 2024 is hereNoHo FUMC
Our monthly newsletter is available to read online. We hope you will join us each Sunday in person for our worship service. Make sure to subscribe and follow us on YouTube and social media.
The PBHP DYC ~ Reflections on The Dhamma (English).pptxOH TEIK BIN
A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma Reflections for the PBHP DYC for the years 1993 – 2012. To motivate and inspire DYC members to keep on practicing the Dhamma and to do the meritorious deed of Dhammaduta work.
The texts are in English.
For the Video with audio narration, comments and texts in English, please check out the Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF2g_43NEa0
The Chakra System in our body - A Portal to Interdimensional Consciousness.pptxBharat Technology
each chakra is studied in greater detail, several steps have been included to
strengthen your personal intention to open each chakra more fully. These are designed
to draw forth the highest benefit for your spiritual growth.
Kenneth Grant - Against the Light-Holmes Pub Grou Llc (1999).pdf
River house presentation
1. RIVER HOUSE
SHELTER
Alex, Amber, Kaitlyn, Nicole, Taylor
2. Overview
“Provides a safe place to sleep,
filling supper and fortifying
breakfast daily”
Provides emergency shelter to
homeless men
Have 34 beds
Offer 5 single rental units
3. Things Learned
They do not have their own
website- only a Facebook page
Their title is River House
Shelter (not River Street
Shelter)
4. Presented in the Media
Typically negative
“People drive by and yell
insults at people staying
at the shelter”
2 men arrested for
trespassing and camping
out on Roundy Street- The
address they gave was
River House Shelter
Positive media
Endicotts’ Young Alumni
Association volunteered at
the Shelter- painted and
landscaped
5. Perceptions
Some negative:
People yell insults passing
the shelter
Homeless residents feel
like they will be judged as
criminals
Some positive:
Community supports
shelter with donations
and supply food
Endicott College provides
volunteer services
6. Challenges
Overcrowding- only 34 beds
Financial struggles
Only receive about $50,000 from government
Have to raise the rest of their $200,000
budget from donations and grants
Temporarily closed (May 1, 2011)
Suspended evening meals (April 1, 2011)
7. Questions
What do you do to keep a good reputation
within the community?
What is done to help occupants within the
shelter to better their life situation?
How many people do you extend services to?
Where are most of your occupants from?
What are the life situations of most of your
occupants?
How was this organization started?
Where does most of the organizations
funding come from?
