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

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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What Makes A Mission A Rescue Ministry? by Dr. F. Dickson Marshall

Brief description of urbanministry.org/homelessness" class="" title="Homelessness Resources">homeless rescue ministry along with some practical advice.

The Founding Fathers of the IUGM by James M. Herriger

A short urbanministry.org/history-documentary" class="" title="History/Documentary Resources">history of the urbanministry.org/international-0" class="" title="International Audience Resources">International Union of Gospel Missions.

Course 414 - Counseling Alcoholics

Course 414 - Counseling Alcoholics (3 credits ) Provides a complete road map for assessing, diagnosing, and treating urbanministry.org/urban-addiction-recovery" class="" title="Addiction Recovery Resources">alcoholism. Topics include recognizing alcohol problems in clients, understanding the critical concepts of the treatment of urbanministry.org/urban-addiction-recovery" class="" title="Addiction Recovery Resources">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

Michael LiimattaMichael LiimattaI grew up in an alcoholic urbanministry.org/families-0" class="" title="Resources for Families">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 - urbanministry.org/families-0" class="" title="Resources for Families">Family Issues and Recovery (3 credits) (Understanding the importance of urbanministry.org/families-0" class="" title="Resources for Families">family dynamics in recovery, including urbanministry.org/youth-group" class="" title="Youth Resources">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 urbanministry.org/health" class="" title="Health Resources">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?

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

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 urbanministry.org/urban-addiction-recovery" class="" title="Addiction Recovery Resources">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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