YWAM Urban Health Care School

Receive TRAINING & CERTIFICATION’S to prepare you for an amazing career in MISSION’S or the MARKETPLACE

JULY 1  -  DEC. 17, 2010

The San Francisco Bay Area

Training you to become a Community Health Advocate

Students will be trained to assess, plan and implement strategies that will minister to individuals, provide health resources to the community and develop long lasting relationships and networks that seek to improve the physical, mental, social and spiritual health of a neighborhood.

As a Community Health Advocate, student’s will be:

  •  Certified as CPR, First Aid, and A.E.D instructors (plus more) 
  •  Certified as Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT) 
  •  Certified as a Community Emergency Response Team member 
  •   Recognized as a Safety Officer for YWAM bases & programs 
  •   Recognized as a Community Health Transformation coach 


Students will also learn:

  • How to assess the health of a community and engage it with solutions 
  • The biblical mandate for mercy ministries and advocacy work 
  • The keys to starting a ministry at your local base, church, city, workplace 


Topics include:

  • How to provide preventative training on the most common medical topics of today that affect infants, children, adults and the elderly 
  • Counseling: domestic violence, police chaplaincy, disaster relief, child abuse, elder abuse, teen violence, the new immigrant, trafficking, hospice and more….. 
  • Disaster relief services around the world 
  • Special module on home health for the sick, aging or dying 

This Urban Health Care School is a partnership with The YWAM Network of City Initiatives & YWAM San Francisco. The city will be our classroom and the neighborhoods our outreach location. YWAM San Francisco is strategically located in the downtown section of the city in a neighborhood of 22,000 people that speak more than 12 languages with ministry opportunities at their front door and at all around their neighborhood. You will be engaged in ministry to a diverse population of people instantly.

If you’d like to host this program in your YWAM city, just send a student(s) and we will teach them what they need to know in order to reproduce this curriculum where you live and minister!

For more information contact Lori Matthias loriywamsf@aol.com

To learn more about this course visit http://www.ywamsanfrancisco.org/communityhealthadvocateschool.html

Foundations in Counselling Ministry

The Foundations in Counselling Ministry School (FCM) is focused on the restoration of the human heart. Restoring it, that is, from its fallen and broken state into one which can reflect freely the love and power of God into a needy world.  It is about being equipped to carry His healing to the nations of South East Asia. 

The FCM is an exciting new school specially designed to train you to minister to people in Asia. The 12 week classroom phase takes us through core topics such as defining Christian counselling, God as Father, His grace and forgiveness, the Cross, healing, deliverance and more. We practice skills like active listening, how to renew our minds and how to pray with authority.

We also learn how to give this away.  The classroom phase is punctuated with a 2 week mid term outreach, where, under supervision, we apply these skills in a real life prayer clinic. 

It's then back to the classroom to focus on specific issues: family, sexuality and abuse, cross cultural counselling, anger, depression and loss. At the end of this we transition into a 6-10 week field assignment.

As a team, we go to another South East Asian country to apply what we have learnt, and witness the transforming power of God's healing love in peoples' lives.

Lecture:    27th January, 2010 to 7th May 2010
Outreach:    10th May 2010 to 18th June 2010

The Abolitionist Academy

  • Date: 27 December 2009
  • Venue: San Franciso

For YWAM Trainers partnering with Not For Sale Campaign - December 27, 2009 to January 8,  2010

Held in the heart of San Francisco, The Abolitionist  Academy is an in depth two week training session for those desiring to become Abolitionist Investigators of modern slavery. Attendees will be educated on how to properly record, document, and map all of the various types of human trafficking through hands on education, training, and meetings with experts in the field. They will learn how to identify probable cases of human trafficking, how to properly record cases of human trafficking, and how to effectively confront slavery in supply chains. By certification, attendees will be equipped with the knowledge and tools they need to become investigators of modern slavery in their own backyards.

Upon Completing the Academy, Attendees Will:
  • Understand the various forms of human trafficking inside the United States and beyond
  • Have personal experience and knowledge of how to work with victims and those at risk for trafficking
  • Know how to best document cases and map human trafficking in their area
  • Have an understanding of how to effectively address forced labor in supply chains
  • Be able to investigate forced labor in specific product and supply chains
  • Be certified as an investigator who can document cases nationally and internationally for Not For Sale

 

Details:
December 28, Monday, 9:00 am - day 1 of week 1
(Participants can arrive on Sunday the 27th of Dec)

January 8, Friday, last day of Academy 
(Participants can stay until Saturday, January 9th

Where: Urban House, corner of Lyon and Fell in San Francisco...just blocks from Haight/Ashbury, Golden Gate Park, and the University of San Francisco

Costs: $499 for two-week academy
Housing: $40/day for room and board - optional...participants can find alternative housing

Limit 25 people - we will first offer this to YWAM leaders/trainers, then open it up if YWAM does not fill it up.

By mid-week next we will have set up a registration page. A non-refundable 50% deposit ($250) assures a participant a spot in the Academy

Now more details.....

We'll do 2 weeks, one focused on investigation, documentation, mapping, and building networks of police/shelters/services that will give opportunities for the victims.

The 2nd week will focus more on free2work and documenting the supply chain of products, inviting companies how to pledge for a slave-free operation and giving transparency so that we can support their efforts. 

The January Academy will give the early adopter leaders the tools to go back to their respective communities to put into practice all that they learned. We then certify them as Level 1 Investigators. Then we will schedule in major metro centers where these leaders hail from a follow up a mobile academy - Bangkok, Capetown, Amsterdam, Perth, etc - where our senior trainers will teach WITH the YWAM team and give them the experience preparing the network, experience, and training experiences that are appropriate for their locale (about 60% of the Academy is hands on in the local community). 

Then we will schedule with the YWAM team follow up Academy Investigator Level 1 courses that they will be able to teach on their own. At some point, the Level 1 Investigators can pursue a Level 2 and Level 3 accreditation (additional one-week courses) that equips them to investigate live trafficking rings and work with law enforcement to shut down trafficking rings.

This lays the groundwork for us to offer follow up courses to equip potential abolitionists in "Innovative Aftercare", Social Venture Entrepreneurs, Health Care Advocates, as well as courses specially designed for law enforcement officers (The Justice League). 
For more details: ywammercy@gmail.com

ECHO Agricultural Conference

  • Date: 24 September 2009
  • Venue: Chiang Mai, Thailand

The 2nd ECHO Agricultural Conference will be held at the Empress Hotel in Chiang Mai, Thailand from September 21-25, 2009. Geared towards enabling persons serving Asia’s poor to network solutions related to alleviating hunger and poverty, this ECHO conference will offer:

  • Three mornings of plenary sessions featuring knowledgeable and experienced speakers. Slated speakers include Dr. Norman Uphoff (researcher and advocate of SRI rice production worldwide), Salinee Tavarana (director of the Border Green Energy Teamthat provides hands-on appropriate technology training and financial support to village innovators in ethnic minority areas on both sides of the Thai/Burma border) as well as Jon Jandai and Peggy Reents (founders of Pun Pun, organic farm, seed-saving operation, and sustainable living and learning center known especially for its promotion of earthen houses).
  • Dozens of afternoon and evening workshops and discussion groups led by regional agricultural development workers and experts (possibly including you).
  • A day of post-conference tours (September 25) to notable venues which offer excellent examples of sustainable agriculture, appropriate technology and outreach to the poor.
  • Members of the ECHO team based in Ft. Myers, Florida, including Stan Doerr (President/CEO of ECHO), Beth Doerr (Intern Manager/ Agricultural Consultant who brings expertise related to the Moringa tree and Appropriate Technologies), Dr. Tim Motis(Director of ECHO’s Agricultural Resources Department and Seed Bank Director) and others. Excellent and affordable conference-related accommodation and meals at Chiang Mai’s Empress Hotel http://www.empresshotels.com/empress_hotel.html
  • A resource fair featuring displays and booths by various development organizations and businesses.
  • Unlimited networking opportunities with fellow conference participants and resource persons. Additional information, including on-line registration and payment, will be made available via the ECHO website (www.echonet.org) by early 2009.

For more information please contact Rick Burnette at rburnette@echonet.org. We’re looking forward to seeing you at the conference!

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