Training Religious Leaders and Faith-Based Resources

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Nason-Clark ◽  
Barbara Fisher-Townsend ◽  
Catherine Holtmann ◽  
Stephen McMullin
Keyword(s):  
Social Issue ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Critical Social

Few religious leaders feel well equipped to respond to the needs of families impacted by abuse, and neither do recent seminary graduates. There is a chasm between the needs of pastors for preparation to respond to this critical social issue and current levels of training and preparation. This chapter explores the process and content of training religious leaders to respond compassionately and with best practices to abuse in their congregations and the communities in which they serve, with reference to both empirical data and experience in offering such seminars and workshops. The chapter also examines the factors associated with the reluctance of many seminaries to equip their students for this area of ministry.

Identifying the best practices for critical social thinking and metacognitive thinking training

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth H. Lazzara ◽  
Marissa Shuffler ◽  
Michael Rosen ◽  
Luiz Xavier ◽  
Samuel Wooten ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Social Thinking ◽  
Critical Social

scholarly journals Factors associated with retention in faith-based drug treatment centers in the Mexican-American border

Salud Mental ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 169-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ietza Bojorquez ◽  
◽  
Daniel Rodríguez ◽  
Olga Odgers ◽  
Ramiro Jaimes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Residential Treatment ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Religious Orientation ◽  
Retention Rate ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Treatment Facilities

Introduction. Faith-based centers are major providers of residential treatment for substance use problems in Mexico, but relatively few studies have been conducted in this context. Objective. To explore factors associated with treatment retention in two faith-based (with different religious orientation) residential treatment facilities for male drug users in Tijuana, Mexico. Method. We conducted an exploratory follow-up study of 328 clients admitted during 2014-2015 to either an Evangelical Pentecostal center or a faith-based center without a specific religious affiliation. The main outcome was retention, defined as remaining in treatment for at least three months. Results. Among participants, the retention rate was 38.7%. Multivariate logistic regression models showed that age (OR 1.04; 95% CI [1.01, 1.06]; p = .002) and having used heroin or opioids in the past 30 days (OR .50; 95% CI [.25, 1.00]; p = .049) were associated with retention. Having a personal religious affiliation was associated with retention in the Evangelical Pentecostal center, but not in the center without a specific religious affiliation. Discussion and conclusion. The retention rate was low, but within the previously reported range. The interaction of personal religious affiliation and the religious orientation of the center suggests that a match between a person’s religious convictions and those of the center could be important for retention. More research is needed to clarify the utility of faith-based centers for religious and non-religious drug users.

scholarly journals Powerful Influencers: Kenyan & Zambia Religious Leaders Advocate for Family Planning

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
M Bormet
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Faith Communities ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Culturally Appropriate ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Low Literacy ◽  
Family Planning Services ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
A Value ◽  
External Stakeholders

Abstract Faith-based organizations (FBOs) provide approximately 40% of healthcare in Kenya and 30% in Zambia. Promoting healthy families is a value at the heart of faith communities. This intervention focused on equipping and encouraging religious leaders (RLs), whose churches own and operate faith-based health facilities, to advocate for family planning (FP) within their congregations, communities, governments. This project included baseline assessments, FP sensitization, and media trainings. Religious leaders were trained through an adaptation of the AFP SMART training by ensuring culturally appropriate messaging for religious audiences were included (i.e. using scripture to discuss and develop messages on families, planning, having children, etc.). Training RLs provides an entree into government fora as culturally respected leaders in positions of power. In order for external advocacy to take place outside of church settings, it is crucial to identify how each church defines FP before meeting with external stakeholders. Creation of low-literacy terms in English and local languages that equipped RLs to interact with community members in-person (i.e. church services, weddings, funerals, community barazas, etc.) and via TV and radio shows was key in addressing myths and misconceptions. Eighty-six religious leaders from 16 denominations in Kenya and Zambia were engaged to sensitize communities and advocate with their Ministries of Health on behalf of the faith community to ensure family planning services reach communities. Equipping RLs in culturally and language appropriate contexts builds stronger advocates for healthy families and communities. Key messages To demonstrate how religious leaders in Kenya and Zambia are equipped to advocate for family planning from a faith perspective. Words and definitions and messengers matter in Family Planning Advocacy from a faith perspective.

Redeeming Time

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Mirola
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Labor Conditions ◽  
Civic Duty ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Protestant Clergy ◽  
Religious Cultures ◽  
Civilized World

During the struggle for the eight-hour workday and a shorter workweek, Chicago emerged as an important battleground for workers in “the entire civilized world” to redeem time from the workplace in order to devote it to education, civic duty, health, family, and leisure. This book explores how the city's eight-hour movement intersected with a Protestant religious culture that supported long hours to keep workers from idleness, intemperance, and secular leisure activities. Analyzing how both workers and clergy rewove working-class religious cultures and ideologies into strategic and rhetorical frames, the book shows how every faith-based appeal contested whose religious meanings would define labor conditions and conflicts. As it notes, the ongoing worker–employer tension transformed both how clergy spoke about the eight-hour movement and what they were willing to do, until intensified worker protest and employer intransigence spurred Protestant clergy to support the eight-hour movement even as political and economic arguments eclipsed religious framing. A revealing study of an era and a cause, this book illustrates the potential—and the limitations—of religious culture and religious leaders as forces in industrial reform.

Improving Measures to Reduce Earthquake Casualties

1992 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael E. Durkin ◽  
Charles C. Thiel
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Case Series ◽  
Policy Formation ◽  
Medical Services ◽  
Demand Side ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Protective Actions ◽  
Earthquake Casualty ◽  
New Framework

Current earthquake casualty reduction measures are examined and recommendations made for needed changes. Key new approaches are outlined and a new framework for understanding casualty reduction measures presented. The framework considers both issues of demand for medical services and supply within primary, secondary and tertiary prevention aspects of each. It is used to assess current measures against recent empirical data and to suggest changes that incorporate new data and methods. Issues include the management of emergency medical services, messages for individual protective actions and assumptions about the nature of injuries. Research has tended to consider primarily the demand side of earthquake injury prevention, focusing on the injured rather than the uninjured. Case series investigations have tended to be descriptive rather than analytical and be undertaken from a clinical rather than an epidemiological perspective, documenting medical aspects of earthquake injuries. Linking these injuries to the risk factors associated with them has not been as systematically studied. Proposed here is an approach for casualty reduction research to fill knowledge gaps. It includes steps to integrate future casualty data and assessment efforts into casualty modeling and into ongoing earthquake policy formation.

scholarly journals Implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on market orientation in retail banking

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannele Haapio ◽  
Joel Mero ◽  
Heikki Karjaluoto ◽  
Aijaz A. Shaikh
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Market Orientation ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Banking Industry ◽  
Retail Banking ◽  
Modus Operandi

AbstractThis qualitative study examines the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on the implementation of market orientation (MO) in the context of retail banking. The findings show that MO was significantly reflected in the behaviors of banks upon encountering the COVID-19 situation, with the banks increasing their MO in response to the crisis. This study finds subcategories based on the empirical data that explain the implementation of MO in more detail. Overall, the findings provide valuable conceptual and managerial insights into the modus operandi of banks during a crisis and offer new best practices for the banking industry.

scholarly journals Insights into Student Engagement - Best Practices and Empirical Support

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Gentemann ◽  
Zhicheng Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Learning And Development ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Specific Research ◽  
Data Source

Student engagement in college impacts their learning and development. Currentresearch advocates a broad-based approach to promoting student engagementthrough high-impact practices on the part of faculty, students, and institutionalenvironment. During this session, presenters will share specific research-basedbest practices that faculty can adopt to promote student engagement andintroduce an empirical data source, including highlights from reports, availableto the Mason community based on the National Survey of Student Engagementto inform faculty and staff on Mason’s strengths and challenges in studentengagement, growth, and satisfaction within the context of a national landscape.

Diplomacy and Religion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
The Political ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Global Era ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Religious Actors

Religion has long been seen as an obstacle to diplomacy, especially in disputes and conflicts that seem to be related to or motivated by religion. The very nature of religion—its concerns for dogma, truth, and certainty— would seem to be contrary to the nature of successful diplomacy, with its emphasis on empathy, dialogue, understanding, negotiation, and compromise. However, religion and diplomacy have become more interrelated since the end of the twentieth century. Globalization and the changing nature of conflict have exposed the limits of conventional diplomacy in resolving these new conflicts in a global era, and this has opened up new opportunities for religious actors involved in diplomacy. A so-called “faith-based diplomacy” has emerged, which promotes dialogue within and between religious traditions. Particularly in the Islamic world, with a new generation of theologians and politicians, it is recognized that there is a key role for religious leaders and faith-based diplomacy in the Middle East. Faith-based diplomacy can be distinguished from the traditional models of peacemaking and conflict resolution by its holistic approach to the sociopolitical healing of a conflict that has taken place. In other words, the objective of faith-based diplomacy is not only conflict resolution but also the restoration of the political order that has suffered from war and injustice, and the reconciliation of individuals and social groups.

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