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Mental Health
Tending to the Mental Health of Youth
Social Media Smarts: Helping Youth Use New Media in Positive Ways for Good Mental & Spiritual Health
Boundaries and Online Interactions with Youth
07:43
Discernment with Youth
02:50
How Parents Can Help and Model Healthy Social Media Usage
06:09
Social Media Platforms as Digital Spaces
04:39
Teaching a Healthy Public Witness Approach Online
05:29
Addressing Online and Other Bullying with Youth
04:41
Social Media Smarts: Helping Youth Use New Media in Positive Ways
01:09:59
Unmasking Racism in Anti-Racism Education: Youth Ministry
Unmasking Racism in Anti-Racism Education: Youth Ministry, Session 1
01:27:57
Unmasking Racism in Anti-Racism Education: Youth Ministry, Session 2
01:31:42
Unmasking Racism in Anti-Racism Education: Youth Ministry, Session 3
01:30:39
Unmasking the Racism in Anti-Racism Education
Unmasking the Racism in Anti-Racism Education
01:16:20
The Importance of Having Difficult Conversations with Youth
12:31
The Relationality of Youth and How that Works for Anti Racism Education
04:08
Anti Racism Work and Relationships across Racial Lines
10:32
Stagnancy in Anti Racism Education and Pacing for the Whole Church
04:36
Next Steps for Churches and Educators Who already "Talk the Talk"
03:57
Returning to the Christian Tradition for Inspiration
02:49
Where Hope Can Be Seen in Anti Racism Education
06:10
Breaking the Silence About Mental Health Challenges with Children and Teens
Creating a Theology of Mental Health Justice
15:31
Nurturing the Roots
08:41
Lack of Freedom in Faith Communities
10:11
Creating a Culture of Preventative Care
11:33
988 as a Resource
03:28
Definition of Mental Health
04:04
Blessed Youth Resources
09:34
Next Steps for Youth Leaders
09:04
Stay
05:20
Mental Health Resource Panel Discussion
50:05
Tending the Adolescent Soul: Offering Hope in an Age of Despair
Start with Love
10:19
Move Towards Hope
01:48
What Listening Does
01:11
What Does Sacred Presence Look Like
10:09
Setting the Stage
01:35
What Listening Means for Youth
02:56
Where Is Life for Teenagers
04:47
What Does Disconnect Look Like
13:38
How Do We See Our Youth
08:05
How to Help Youth Listen to Each Other
08:18
Developing Your Praxis for Building Diverse Youth Communities
Developing Your Praxis for Building Diverse Youth Communities with Dr. Brian Ragsdale, Ph.D.
01:08:34
Children and Youth Development Across Lines of Identity
08:03
Community Building and Relationships
07:33
Children Creating a World of Inclusiveness
03:04
The Nature of Systems and Power
09:16
Multiple Identities and Flexible Programming
01:55
Church Shoes: Thinking and Rethinking our Steps for Youth Ministry in the Black Church
Church Shoes: Thinking and Rethinking our Steps for Youth Ministry in the Black Church
01:09:54
Queer Black Youth Finding their Community
03:56
Asking, and not Assuming, Pastoral Care Needs in this Generation
06:50
What White Congregations Should Know
04:14
Leadership Possibilities
04:40
Letting Kids be Kids in Sacred Space
02:49
Hopes for Liberation and Flourishing
02:58
Internal Welcome and External Witness: LGBTQ Youth Ministry
Internal Welcome and External Witness: LGBTQ Youth Ministry
01:28:32
Who Are the LGBTQ+ Youth?
09:38
Values Determine Logistics 1: Forms
07:35
Values Determine Logistics 2: Bathrooms
02:19
Values Determine Logistics 3: Sleeping Arrangements
03:51
Values Determine Logistics 4: How Affirming Are Our Partners?
04:07
Public Witness Outside our Congregation
04:37
God as Beyond Gender
04:31
Queer Bible Stories
05:59
Pastoral Boldness in Advocacy
04:34
Creating Communities of Inclusion and Belonging for Youth with Disabilities
Creating Communities of Inclusion and Belonging for Youth with Disabilities
01:25:25
A 50 Year History/Current Sketch of Disabilities in Church and Society
09:04
What Does Belonging Look Like?
01:34
Statistics Regarding Faith and Youth with Disabilities
03:01
Employment Opportunities for Youth with Disabilities
07:40
Focusing on the Guest
05:23
Friendships across All Abilities
05:53
It All Starts with Connection
04:48
Nuts and Bolts - How to Foster Belonging
05:33
The Danger of the Single Story
05:20
Talking about Sex, Tech, and Faith with Teens
Talking with Teens about Sex, Tech, and Faith
01:22:37
Creating a Sexual Ethic in a Christian Community
06:55
Defining Terms - Pornography vs Sexually Explicit Materials
04:51
Healthy Online Sexual Community Engagement
05:21
Helping Youth Become Ethicists
07:08
Sex and Self-Worth for Youth
00:04
Sex and Tech
03:31
What Is Sexuality
05:24
Cultivating Communication Skills
03:50
How to Educate Parents about Technology and Sex
03:16
The Storm Isn’t Over: Ways to Support the Social Emotional Needs of Youth
The Storm Isn’t Over: Ways to Support the Social Emotional Needs of Youth
01:04:55
Tending to Youth and Tending to Ourselves
02:50
How to Help Youth Act On Their Feelings
07:23
Helping Youth Have Permission to Give
03:24
Resilience, or Anti-Fragility?
03:33
Stress Gets a Bad Rap
04:34
Pressure as Misplaced Anxiety about Success
04:23
Safe Space
03:46
Frustrated Parenting as Experiencing Fear
04:07
"Back to Normal" as a Very Unhelpful Phrase
03:09
Why Ministries Innovate and How to Start: Knee Deep in Flotsam
God as the Innovator, Pastors as Co-Creators
04:54
One Church's Story of Innovation
18:45
Tips and Practical Advice for Innovation
01:28:59
Status of the Church and the Need to Innovate
24:49
Church Impact from Pandemic
01:15
Shipwreck and Potential, Jetsam and Flotsam
06:23
Mental Health Needs
03:51
What's next for the church? Who does the innovation?
10:38
Framing Questions for Innovation
01:38
The Pastor's Role
02:52
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