Your monthly update on resources and events to support the well-being of people in your congregation and community.
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Ask the Experts: Back-to-School Edition
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Advocate Aurora Health recently hosted a Facebook Live event, focused on all things related to kids’ health. Jim Skogsbergh, President and CEO, was joined by a panel of top pediatric physicians and experts from Advocate Children's Hospital and Aurora Children's Health who answered questions from viewers, offered tips to keep children safe and eased parent's fears about kids returning to school and sports.
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Get Safe Care for You and Your Family
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Whether your kids are ready for their back to school vaccinations or you’re due for an annual checkup, you don’t have to delay care any longer. Our
Safe Care promise provides extra safety measures, including virtual check-ins for visits, screening, masking, social distancing and enhanced cleaning – all so you can feel safe when you visit our clinics and hospitals.
In addition, you can schedule your child’s appointments, get information on pediatric care, immunization schedules and more through the LiveWell with Advocate Aurora Health app. Learn
more.
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August is National Immunization Awareness Month
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August is National Immunization Awareness Month, a time set aside to highlight the importance of vaccination for people of all ages.
Help spread the word by sharing this bulletin insert and worship slide with your faith community:
Additional Resources:
The Chicago CareVan
is a mobile immunization clinic that provides no out-of-pocket cost to all children from birth through 18 years of age. The clinic provides all immunizations that are recommended by the CDC, with the exception of varicella (chickenpox) vaccine.
Find more information and resources on flu immunization at Advocate Aurora's
Health eNews site
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Racial Healing Circles:
Racial Healing Circles are designed for brave and rich conversations about racism and how we want to respond.
These facilitated conversations offer space where we can share, listen and remember our common humanity. By the end of the session, the hope is that you will be moving to a different relationship with yourself, your community and the world. These sessions are offered at no cost. Sign up soon because the groups are intentionally small.
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The Companionship Model Workshop
Join us for the first of four workshops designed to build faith leaders' toolkit as they support the emotional well-being of their communities. Session one will cover the Companionship Model, a relational practice of presence, rooted in our natural capacities as human beings to be sensitive, compassionate and concerned for another in isolation or distress.
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HIV & Faith in Resilience and Renewal
This webinar series kicks-off with a conversation between long-time HIV activists Pernessa Seele and Cary Goodman of the Balm in Gilead. Pernessa is the founding CEO of the Balm and Cary has served for many years as the Balm’s Program Director. They will talk about the impact of the National Week of Prayer for the Healing of HIV and their vision for the role of the Black Church for ending the epidemic.
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Addiction Ministry Webinar
July 29, 6:00-9:00 p.m. and August 5, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
The need for addiction and recovery ministry has never been more needed than during this pandemic and racial tension. Liquor sales have skyrocketed during the past months. Isolation, anxiety and increased symptoms of depression and other mental health illnesses are prevalent for many. For more information and/or to register, contact Drew Brooks at
drewbrooks@faith-partners.org or at 512-417-2307.
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Community Conversation: Minority Mental Health
This virtual conversation will lead us through dialogue around mental and behavioral health stigma and facts in minority communities, COVID-19 and its impact on mental health and much more. The event will feature a distinguished panel of mental and behavioral health experts from both Wisconsin and Illinois. Panelists include:
- Dr. Munther Barakat, Psy.D., Director of Behavioral Health Therapy (Aurora Psychiatric Hospital)
- Dr. Blaire Lewis, Psy. D., Manager, Trauma Recovery Center (Advocate Christ Medical Center)
- Dr. Lakeia Jones, MS, Ph.D., LPC, CSAC, CCTP, Chief Executive Officer, Director and Psychotherapist, AMRI Counseling Services, LLC
- Jameila Hand, MHS CADC CODP, CEO, Vantage Clinical Consulting LLC.
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NAMI FaithNet Bridges of Hope Presentation
Advocate Aurora Health is partnering with The Kennedy Forum and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Chicago for the second of four workshops, designed to build faith leaders' toolkit as they support the emotional well-being of their communities.
The NAMI FaithNet Bridges of Hope presentation includes:
- The red flags or warning signs that someone needs help
- What to do when someone exhibits the warning signs of a mental illness
- What faith communities can do to help people and families touched by serious mental illness
- What resources NAMI Chicago can offer to individuals, families and faith communities
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Human Trafficking Webinars
While some of the issues of our day seem beyond our healing/helping touch, there is one issue in which a few commonsense steps can have lasting impact on our families, neighborhoods and communities: human trafficking. By participating in this webinar series, you will become more aware of what trafficking can look like in your area, access tools to guard your loved ones, and be part of bringing hope and healing to those trafficked.
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Prayer Support Line
The Prayer Support Line allows us to come together in unity to release our burdens, receive comfort and express our gratitude to God for holding us close during this pandemic. The Prayer Support Line is a place where we can join with others in prayer for health, healing and spiritual care with the expectation that God will meet us and provide us with encouragement.
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Grief Support Group
The effects of grief and loss interrupt meaningful connections in our lives. This path can lead to broken hearts, painful detachments and unmet desires. These sessions will offer tools of reconstruction. We will learn how to embrace various feelings associated with loss with courage and anticipation toward wholeness.
See flyer.
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The Latest COVID-19 Resources
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Web Resources
The spread of COVID-19 is a rapidly evolving situation. Continue to check the
CDC website for up-to-date information and guidance.
Hotline and App
The COVID-19 hotline at
1-866-4-HEALTH is staffed by clinicians who can answer questions about symptoms and determine the next steps in care.
The
LiveWell app offers virtual appointments and virtual visits with physicians 24-hours a day.
Flyers to Share
How to Protect Yourself and Others While Traveling in
English
E-Newsletters to Share
A
COVID-19 resource in Spanish
that shares important tips to stay safe, flyers you can share with your community, links to the Advocate Aurora Health COVID-19 Resource Center and more.
Worship Slides
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Save the Date: September 21
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September 21,
Keeping Faith: Empowering Faith Communities to Recognize and Respond to Child Abuse
Madison Christian Community is pleased to announce an important training, Keeping Faith: Empowering Faith Communities to Recognize and Respond to Child Abuse, on September 21. This interfaith training is co-sponsored by the Wisconsin Conference United Church of Christ and endorsed by Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
This is an interfaith workshop with Victor Vieth of the Zero Abuse Project in Minnesota and Honorable Rev. Everett Mitchell, Dane County Circuit Judge and Senior Pastor of Christ the Solid Rock Baptist Church.
Learn more
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Aurora Family Counseling Clinic
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The Aurora Family Service Counseling Clinic is currently accepting new admissions for virtual sessions [via Zoom, Skype and other platforms] and telephone sessions. The clinic provides counseling, education and support to individuals, families and couples, including those with young children and adolescents. In addition, Spanish-speaking therapists are available.
The clinic accepts Medicaid, Medicare and private insurance and has a sliding-fee scale for uninsured patients. Most appointments can be scheduled within 5-7 business days, Monday–Friday with daytime and evening availability. To make an appointment, call 414-345-4941. Learn
more.
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Health and Wellness Resources
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- Find a Behavioral Health Specialist
- Services and Treatment
- Programs for Adults, Children and Adolescents
- And More!
- Weight Management Programs
- Integrative Health Coaching
- National and Local Resources
- Fitness and Wellness Centers
- And More!
Stroke Risk Assessment
Up to 80 percent of strokes are preventable, and many of the risk factors are controllable. Take Advocate Aurora Health’s online
Stroke Risk Assessment
to estimate your chance of experiencing one and learn about the ways you could minimize it.
If you are interested in starting a health ministry or health council in your congregation, contact
Kirsten Peachey
, Director of Faith and Health Partnerships for Advocate Aurora Health
. She'd love to talk with you about getting started.
Advocate Aurora Health eNews Service
Get daily articles on a host of health topics that come to you via email. Subscribe to our
Health eNews service
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August Holidays and Observances
1: Lammas - Christian
1: Lughnassad - Imbolc - Wicca/Pagan
1: Fast in Honor of Holy Mother of Jesus - Orthodox Christian
3: Raksha Bandhan - Hindu
3: Narali Purnima - Hindu
6: Transfiguration of the Lord - Orthodox Christian
9: International Day of The World’s Indigenous Peoples
10: Waqf al Arafa - Islam
12: Krishna Janmashtami - Hindu
13-15: Obon (Ulambana) - Buddhist/Shinto
15: Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary - Catholic Christian
15: Dormition of the Theotokos - Orthodox Christian
20: Hijra - New Year - Islam
22: Ganesh Chaturthi - Hindu
29: Ashura - Islam
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