The Mental Health Association of the Heartland

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• The Mental Health Association of the Heartland
• The Center for Practical Bioethics
• with funding from
• The Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City

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• Mission
• to promote the mental health of the community and
  improve the quality of life of
• persons with mental illness,
• through advocacy, education, and support

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• MHAH promotes mental wellness,
• improves care and treatment of
• persons with mental illness,
• and works to eliminate stigma
• associated with mental illness
• through grassroots citizen-action efforts
• and non-clinical support.

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Center for Practical Bioethics
Mission to raise and respond to ethical
issues in health healthcare to provide
practical guidance at the crossroads of
decision on difficult and complex biomedical
issues
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Center for Practical Bioethics
Vision A society world in which the
dignity and health of all people is
advanced through ethical discourse and action
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Funding for Sabbaths of Hope

• granted by the
• Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City
• MISSION
• to improve access and quality of health for the
  medically indigent and underserved individuals
  and communities by providing financial support
  and leadership directed toward all aspects of
  health in Kansas City, Missouri and a six county
  service area

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• was/is a multi-faith initiative of
• the Center for Practical Bioethics
• to provide faith community leaders
• with tools and resources
• to address the spiritual needs of dying people.

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Introducing . . .
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What is it?

• Sabbaths of Hope is a project that aims to
• enable clergy, seminarians, and other faith
  leaders to recognize types and symptoms of
  depression
• offer more effective support to congregants and
  clergy suffering from depression
• provide referral and linkage to treatment options
• address stigma, discrimination, and other
  barriers to treatment
• promote holistic approaches to depression
  treatment

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What is it?

• Faith community participants will receive
  training and resources to enable them to conduct
  educational events for congregants and
  colleagues.
• All depression related activities will culminate
  in a congregationally designated Sabbaths of Hope
  weekend observance in May 2007 and annually.

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What is it?

• Sabbaths of Hope EVENTS
• Jan 2007 Clergy Cohort Breakfasts
• 1/22 29 Depression Seminars (COR)
• Feb 12, 2007 Conference Workshops
• Ongoing Depression Hope workshops
• May 2007 Weekend Observances
• June 2007 Clergy Cohort Follow-up
• Jan-June 2008 CYCLE 2 . . .

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What is it?

• Congregational Clergy Cohort
• Attend (if possible) an orientation breakfast
  gathering
• Attend the Sabbaths of Hope Conference
  Workshops
• Receive a comprehensive depression response kit
• Prepare and implement a Sabbaths of Hope
  observance any weekend in May
• Submit Best Practices for the 2008 Sabbaths of
  Hope depression response kit and workshops
• Complete brief pre- and post- questionnaires

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Congregational Cohort(completed questionnaires
received, as of now)

• Amazing Grace International Church of God in
  Christ (COGIC)
• Beth-Judah Ministries (COGIC)
• Church of the Resurrection (UMC)
• Central Baptist Theological Seminary
  (ABC/CBF/ecumenical)
• Community Christian Church (DOC)
• Congregation Beth Shalom (Conservative Judaism)
• Crossroads Church
• First Baptist Church of Kansas City, KS (ABC)
• First Baptist Church of Lawrence (ABC)
• First Christian Church of Blue Springs (DOC)

• Friendship Baptist Church (NBC)
• Hillview Church of God (COG--AI)
• Holmeswood Baptist Church (CBF)
• Kaw Prairie Community Church (Willow Creek)
• Judson Baptist Church (ABC)
• Lao American Baptist Church (ABC)
• Linwood United Church (UMC/PCUSA)
• New Life Family Church
• Peace Mennonite Church (MCUSA)
• Prairie Baptist Church (ABC)
• Revolution (UMC)
• St James United Methodist Church
• ?

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Events

• 2007 Conference Workshop
• 830 AM 430 PM
• Monday, February 12, 2007
• The Holter Center
• Saint Paul School of Theology
• Introductory Remarks by Honorary Co-Chairpersons
• The Honorable Congressman and Reverend Emanuel
  Cleaver II
• Betsy Vander Velde, President/CEO, The Family
  Conservancy
• Keynote Address by the Reverend Kirk Byron Jones,
  PhD, DMin

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Events

• 2007 Conference Workshop
• Keynoter
• the Reverend Kirk Byron Jones, PhD, DMin
• served many years at Andover Newton Theological
  School
• as Kelsey-Owens Professor of Black Ministries,
• and currently teaches courses in ethics.
• He is a respected preacher and speaker,
• and the author of several best-selling books,
  including
• Rest in the Storm
• Self-Care Strategies for Clergy and Other
  Caregivers
• and Addicted to Hurry Spiritual Strategies for
  Slowing Down

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Events

• 2007 Conference Workshop
• Depression Hope Workshop
• by pastoral theologians
• Rev Jeanne Hoeft, PhD, Saint Paul School of
  Theology
• Rev Judith Schwanz, PhD, Nazarene Theological
  Seminary
• Rev Ruth Rosell, PhD, RN, Central Baptist
  Theological Seminary

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Events

• 2007 Conference Workshop
• Breakout Sessions
• Depression in Particular Populations A Panel
  Discussion
• Depression in the African American Community
• Tom Copeland, PhD Ursula Copeland, MSW
• Cultural Diversity and Disparities in Mental
  Health
• Susan Crain Lewis, MSSW, President/CEO, MHAH
• Medications for Depression
• Dr Jessica Lea, PharmD, UMKC School of Pharmacy

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Events

• 2007 Conference Workshop
• Depression Hope
• Visual Arts Exhibit
• Resource Exhibitors
• Cokesbury Bookstore
• Depression Hope Book Sale

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Resources

• Depression Hope Response Kit
• Introduction
• Depression A Guide for Faith Community Leaders
• Signs Symptoms
• Causes of Depression
• Depression in Particular Populations
• Suicide and Substance Abuse
• How, When, and Where to Refer
• Treatment Options
• Multi-Faith Liturgical Resources
• Scripture Texts Sacred Writings
• Sermon Themes Titles
• Prayers Congregational Litanies
• Music Selections
• Depression Hope Bulletin Inserts
• Depression Hope Workshop Module

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Observance

• Sabbaths of Hope Observance
• When?
• any weekend in May
• (Mental Health Month)

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Why observeSabbaths of Hope?

• National epidemic 18.8 million adults per year
  experience depression (U.S. data)
• 9.5 of the adult population
• 17.6k men 38.1k women in Greater KC
• 10-fold increase in the past 50 years
• 31,500 suicides per year (U.S.)
• 535,000 ER visits for self-inflicted injury
• http//www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/suicide.htm

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Why observeSabbaths of Hope?

• I remember reading something a religious man and
  professor wrote. He recalled that in the worst of
  his depression a friend came to his house once a
  week and simply washed his feet. The friend
  didn't say anything or try to fix" anything.  He
  just reached out in a way that he knew how.
• Sarah R. King, Administrative Judge and mental
  health activist

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Why observeSabbaths of Hope?

• Depression Disparities
• for many minorities
• depression incidence is higher
• treatment access/usage is lower

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Why observeSabbaths of Hope?

• Depression treatment is 70-80 effective
• Yet only 25-33 of sufferers access treatment

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Why observeSabbaths of Hope?

• I have personally struggled with depression in
  the past, and when I was in the throes of it, I
  did not have the energy to pick myself up by the
  bootstraps, but was desperate for someone to
  reach out to me--and would have responded. . . . 
   
• Sarah R. King, Administrative Judge and mental
  health activist

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Why observeSabbaths of Hope?

• Also
• Stigma
• is a major barrier to treatment

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Why observeSabbaths of Hope?

• I have found that in this military community
  especially the families are afraid of expressing
  any perceived weakness or what they see as
  defeat. I hear a lot from the women thatthey
  don't want to "complain" because their husbands
  are deployed, yet at home they are overwhelmed .
  . . . There is so much pain in the military
  community and so much depression. 
• Sarah R. King, Administrative Judge and mental
  health activist

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Why observeSabbaths of Hope?

• In fact
• 31 of Kansas Citians
• turn first to their
• spiritual leader/clergy
• in times of mental health crisis
• http//www.machc.org/documents/12_20Employee20At
  titudinal20Survey20and20Community20Report.doc
  

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Why observeSabbaths of Hope?

• Depression is such an issue in our church that
  most of the Pastor's time is taken up by
  counseling right now. 
• Sarah R. King, Administrative Judge and mental
  health activist

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Why observeSabbaths of Hope?

• But to whom and where
• do those spiritual leaders
• and faith community leaders turn?

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• The Mental Health Association of the Heartland
• The Center for Practical Bioethics
• with funding from
• The Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City