Programs and Partnerships
Trauma-Informed, Healing-Centered Learning Communities
We help faith communities learn how to use restorative approaches and resources from their own faith traditions to develop trauma-informed and healing-centered practices, policies, and culture.
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Healing Congregations: Nurturing Love, Life, and Hope in a Hurting World
Healing Congregations is a resource book rooted in real people’s stories of journeying hopefully through times of adversity or suffering. The book is a resource to help ourselves and other people of faith better see, share and connect to the practices and stories that we are already living that create love, life and hope in a hurting world.
Chicagoland Trauma Informed Congregations Network
We convene a multifaith learning network of people and organizations to use our collective wisdom to respond to facilitate and deepen the role of faith communities in recognizing and creating “safe and brave spaces” that support the healing of trauma experienced by individuals and communities.
Courage to Love: Thriving Moms and Babies
We work to improve the health and well-being of women, childbearing persons, and babies by building positive, loving connection among individuals and in the social structures that support our communities. We partner with BECOME to support a Mom’s Mentor Network and developed a curriculum for Community Health Workers that draws on the power of relationships to protect parenting persons and their babies.
LAMP (Love Asset Mapping and Planning)
LAMP is a series of interactive workshops in which community members, religious leaders and service providers share their experiences of where they see beauty and love at work in their congregations and communities and craft a common vision for taking action to help it grow. Learn more about LAMP.
Just Eating? Practicing Our Faith at the Table
Just Eating? Practicing Our Faith at the Table is a seven-session curriculum for congregations that connects how we eat with the practices and commitments of our faith. The study uses scripture, prayer and stories from the local and global community to explore five key aspects of our relationship with food:
- the health of our bodies
- the challenge of hunger
- the health of the earth that provides our food
- ways we use food to extend hospitality and enrich relationships
- opportunities for action, renewal and transformation in our eating practices – as individuals and as faith communities.
Just Eating? is available to download for free. You can also order printed versions through the Presbyterian Church Store – type “Just Eating” into the search box.
Download copies of the Curriculum
- Just Eating? Adults and Youth Leader Guide. Detailed instructions to guide you in teaching the program.
- Just Eating? Reading Book. A book with scriptures, meditations, and action ideas for each topic.
- Updated Links. Download a page of links that have been updated or corrected.
Just Eating? has been so successful that we created several adaptations. We now also have the curriculum for:
- African American Audiences (adapted to be culturally appropriate by Tanya Lane and Veronica Kyle from Faith in Place). Leader Guide | Reading Book
- Middle School Students (in English and Spanish), written by Rev. Holly Johnson. Middle School Leader Guide (English) | Alimentadose Justamente Guia de Lider
- Latino Audiences (adapted to be culturally and language appropriate), adapted by Rev. Neddy Astudillo. Alimentandose Justamente Guia del Lider | Alimentandose Justamente Libro de Reflexiones
- Multifaith Audiences. Healthy Body, Community, Planet, and Spirit. Prepared by Faith in Place.