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Paid Urban Ministry Internships Starting in February 2009

AmeriCorps volunteer mentoring Starting this winter TechMission Corps' AmeriCorps program is offering one-year full-time paid internships serving in urban ministries in Boston, New York, Chicago, Denver, and Los Angeles.

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Course 414 - Counseling Alcoholics

Course 414 - Counseling Alcoholics (3 credits ) Provides a complete road map for assessing, diagnosing, and treating alcoholism. Topics include recognizing alcohol problems in clients, understanding the critical concepts of the treatment of alcoholism, the 12-step approach, relapse prevention, and recognizing primary or secondary psychiatric disorders in clients who are chemically dependent.

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Course 419 - Family Issues and Recovery

Course 419 - Family Issues and Recovery (3 credits) (Understanding the importance of family dynamics in recovery, including youth issues, codependency, plus God given resiliency and self repair.)

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Course 413 - Drugs of Abuse

Course 413 - Drugs of Abuse (3 credits) How to identify the most commonly abused drugs, recognize patterns of use and develop approaches for treatment.

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Course 412 - Counseling Foundations

Course 412 - Counseling Foundations (3 credits) (Focuses on various aspects of counseling theory, human development and the core counseling functions.)

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Course 416 - Mental Illness and Addiction

Course 416 - Mental Illness and Addiction (3 credits ) An overview on Counseling the Mentally Ill Substance Abuser: clients who have both chemical dependency and mental health issues. Students will learn the most significant predictors of treatment success, how to provide an empathic and continuous treatment relationship, how to distinguish between the criteria of substance abuse vs.

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Programs

AC4

The Association of Christian Community Computer Centers (AC4) is a program of TechMission to support any program using technology to serve at-risk communities. There are over 500 centers that have joined AC4, and in 2003 they served 108,865 participants in technology programs with budgets totaling over $16.5 million.

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City Vision College

City Vision College is a fully-accredited distance learning institution offering a certificate or Bachelor of Arts in Missions to urban ministry leaders. Ten-week courses are available in the following topics: Urban Ministry, Missions, CFRE Fund Raising, Accounting, Nonprofit Management and Counseling, among others.

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TechMission Corps

The TechMission Corps is an AmeriCorps program that provides a one-year internship experience in urban ministries using technology to serve at-risk communities.

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TechMission Safe Families

The TechMission Safe Families program assists parents in protecting their children from pornography and other dangers on the Internet.

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TechMission Volunteer Network

The TechMission Volunteer Network matches volunteers to volunteer opportunities and helps organizations recruit volunteers through online volunteer matching at www.christianvolunteering.org. Individuals can find opportunities as a local volunteer, virtual volunteer (volunteering from home), short term missionary, or intern at organizations across the US and internationally. Organizations can post volunteer opportunities to recruit volunteers online.

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TechMission UrbanMinistry.org

UrbanMinistry.org is TechMission's "Web 2.0" destination site for workers in urban ministry and Christian community development: a website designed to connect individuals and Christian ministries, empowering them to bring social justice in Jesus' name. Users can listen to MP3 podcasts; share resources via the UrbanMinistry wiki; and browse an extensive library of sermons and lectures, recommended books, justice-related videos, and Christian workshops and presentations.

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TechMission Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York & Denver

TechMission city hub programs provide resources to all TechMission's regional partner sites which are focused on serving at-risk youth.

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TechMission Christian Freeware CD

TechMission’s Christian Freeware CD is a collection of freeware and open source software that would be of use to Christians.

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Homegrown Fund-Raisers: City Vision College Partners with CFRE, AFP and CSA

by Barbara Clemenson, CPA, CFRE

Fund raising—building relationship with our donors—is the financial lifeblood of our ministries. Yet many of us came to our positions from diverse pursuits, none of which prepared us for the ministry of fund raising.

Nevertheless, we must be successful fund-raisers in order to minister to our clients who cannot pay for services themselves.

There are two prerequisites for becoming successful fund-raisers: attitude and knowlege. New programs at City Vision College can help us become skilled in these areas so we are wise steward-leaders, bringing glory to God with our donors, clients and communities.

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City Vision College: Online Training for Urban Ministry

TechMission is excited to announce that City Vision College (formerly Rescue College) is now a part of TechMission. Its mission is to train those involved in urban ministry.

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Dale's Story: From Prison to Rescue Mission Chaplain

Dale HartmanIn December of 1990 I came to the Rescue Mission of Salt Lake in Utah. I been out of prison for about 6 months at this time. I was in prison for grand theft because I was supporting a drug habit. I had been homeless at times even before I had entered the mission in Salt Lake. While at the mission in Salt Lake I heard about the Spiritual Training Program and decided to see if I could get on it mainly because it was cold outside. After being there for about a week and hearing the Gospel I turned my life over to Christ.  

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Why should addicts avoid new relationships with members of the opposite sex in the first year of recovery?

Submitted by an UrbanMinistry Blogger on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 16:06

For addicts, real lasting change occurs only after a long and often painful process of self discovery.  Becoming involved in a romantic relationship too early is a sure fire way to short-circuit the process.  It is actually one of the most frequent causes of relapse.

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Course 414 - Counseling Alcoholics

Course 414 - Counseling Alcoholics (3 credits ) Provides a complete road map for assessing, diagnosing, and treating alcoholism. Topics include recognizing alcohol problems in clients, understanding the critical concepts of the treatment of alcoholism, the 12-step approach, relapse prevention, and recognizing primary or secondary psychiatric disorders in clients who are chemically dependent.

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Michael Liimatta's Spiritual Journey

Submitted by Michael Liimatta on Thu, 05/28/2009 - 15:08

Michael LiimattaMichael LiimattaI grew up in an alcoholic family. Both my father and my mother came from alcoholic homes, too. Because I grew up in such a very chaotic home, I was running the streets from an early age. My first drinking experience was when I was just twelve years old. I was "turned on" to pot at age fourteen, and went to jail twice for selling marijuana, hashish, and LSD, before I was eighteen years old.

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Course 419 - Family Issues and Recovery

Course 419 - Family Issues and Recovery (3 credits) (Understanding the importance of family dynamics in recovery, including youth issues, codependency, plus God given resiliency and self repair.)

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Course 416 - Mental Illness and Addiction

Course 416 - Mental Illness and Addiction (3 credits ) An overview on Counseling the Mentally Ill Substance Abuser: clients who have both chemical dependency and mental health issues. Students will learn the most significant predictors of treatment success, how to provide an empathic and continuous treatment relationship, how to distinguish between the criteria of substance abuse vs.

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Doesn’t the “medical model” help addicts avoid taking responsibility for their behavior?

Submitted by Michael Liimatta on Thu, 04/16/2009 - 15:58

The only people I’ve ever heard using the “disease concept” as an excuse are practicing alcoholics who have no real intention of changing.   I hear something totally different from Christian counselors and other professionals who subscribe to what is also called a “clinical approach” to treatment and recovery.  While recognizing the impact of factors like heredity and brain chemistry in the development of addiction, they know that real change happens only when addicts and alcoholics begin to take responsibility for their lives and truly “own” their own behaviors. 

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Homelessness & Addiction Recovery: A Lasting Solution

Submitted by Michael Liimatta on Sun, 04/26/2009 - 09:00

2_men_drinking_under_a_streetlightEvery substance abuse counselor has probably at one time or another pointed to the "skid row bum" and said, "You don't have to be like him to be an addict or alcoholic! " While this type of person may represent only 5% of all addicts, Christians who are in recovery have a lot more in common with him than they may think!

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Issues Relating to Clients who Stay at your Mission for Extended Times

ISSUES RELATING TO CLIENTS WHO STAY AT YOUR MISSION FOR EXTENDED TIMES, AND RECEIVE ROOM AND BOARD PLUS FUNDS.

 

ISSUE OF MINIMUM WAGE

 

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Course 413 - Drugs of Abuse

Course 413 - Drugs of Abuse (3 credits) How to identify the most commonly abused drugs, recognize patterns of use and develop approaches for treatment.

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Course 412 - Counseling Foundations

Course 412 - Counseling Foundations (3 credits) (Focuses on various aspects of counseling theory, human development and the core counseling functions.)

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