 | | You can enroll now and become a Certified Mental Health Coach! | | | | Nearly 25,000 now enrolled!! | | | Introducing the 2022 "Dare2Care" Global Church and Mental Health Initiative. Our intial goal in 2021 was to engage 750 churches and train 7,500 Mental Health Coach First Responders in and through these congregations. We had no idea what was going to happen. God did! Nearly 10,000 Churches and 25,000 students are now enrolled. Get enrolled now! | NO cost to the Church and tuition is FREE for YOU!
(One-time tech support fee $54. Regular tuition $2400) | | | | Our 2022 mission is to reach an additional 2,000 CHARTER churches and to train 34,000 students in and through those congregations. | |  | "It's just amazing to see what God is doing!!"
— Dr. Tim Clinton | | | Dear Colleague and Friend:
Prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic we had a mental health crisis. However, since the pandemic hit with the lockdowns, racial trauma, the riots, the vaccine rollout, and more, it has turned into a mental health disaster. According to the CDC mental health issues are skyrocketing, 40% of U.S. adults now report struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues. The numbers are staggering. - Anxiety/ Depression Symptoms – 31%1
- Started or Increased Substance Use – 13%1
- Trauma/Stressor-Related Disorder Symptoms – 26%1
- Seriously Considered Suicide – 11%1
People everywhere are exhausted, emotionally shot, and in need of hope! That is why we launched the:
Dare2Care Global Church and Mental Health Initiative
Enroll Now!
| Go to LightUniversity.com/MentalHealthCoach to inquire and enroll NOW, or call 800-526-8673. Nearly 10,000 churches are already locked in, and 25,000 students have started classes. Don't miss this one!! | |
In light of the widespread mental health crisis, our 2022 expanded mission is to educate, equip, engage and reach an additional 2,000 churches/congregations to join in this effort and to train 34,000 Mental Health Coach First Responders through our 42-hour, three-course, biblically-anchored and evidenced-based program. Our focus is on serious mental illness, and the courses are taught by some of the world's leading mental health and ministry experts. To our knowledge, this is the first faith-based peer counseling/coach program available in America and around the world.
The video-based instruction is available 24/7/365 through our innovative and robust ON-DEMAND platform and comes complete with lecture notes and exams. Nearly 7,000 have already graduated and are serving others. Students will receive a certificate of completion for each course completed. After completing the three classes, each student will also be eligible to become certified as a Mental Health Coach through the International Board of Christian Care.
Since we announced the launch of the program, the response has been extraordinary! Nearly 10,000 churches have enrolled, and 25,000 students have signed up to begin taking classes.
| God is up to something big here! |
Part of our mission is to help eradicate the silence, shame, and stigma around mental health issues, and to develop mental health ministries in and through these local congregations. The one place where people need to feel "safe and cared for" should and must be the Church. We are praying that God will use this work to help take a huge step in that direction.
We are pleased to announce that the "Dare2Care" Global Church and Mental Health Initiative is being anchored by the following CHARTER churches: | Jack Graham
Prestonwood Baptist Church, Dallas, TX
| Jentezen Franklin
Free Chapel, Gainesville, GA
| Greg Laurie
Harvest Christian Fellowship, Orange County and Riverside, CA
| Samuel Rodriguez
New Season Worship, Sacramento, CA
| Rick Bezet
New Life Church, Conway, AR
| Gregg Matte
Houston First Baptist, Houston, TX
| Todd and Julie Mullins
Christ Fellowship Church, West Palm Beach, FL
| Robert Jeffress
First Baptist Dallas, Dallas, TX
| Jonathan Falwell
Thomas Road Baptist Church, Lynchburg, VA
| Robert Morris
Gateway Church, Dallas, TX
| Jerry Lawson
Daystar Church, Cullman, AL
| Paula White
City of Destiny, Apopka, FL
| Phillip Green
Mountain Top Church, Cisco, TX
| Ted Cunningham
Woodland Hills Family Church, Branson, MO
| And a network now of nearly 10,000 churches and ministry groups all across America... which is increasing every day!
Do not miss this opportunity to be a part of what God is doing in and through the "Dare2Care" Global Church and Mental Health Initiative. Getting started is easy. For more information on how you can enroll your church and get started, go to LightUniversity.com/MentalHealthCoach, or call us at 800-526-8673.
NO cost to the Church and tuition is FREE for YOU!
(One-time tech support fee $54. Regular tuition $2400) |
| We cannot wait to see what God is going to do for such a time as this. We would love to be a part of your church and life. | | | Sincerely,
Tim Clinton, Ed.D., LPC, LMFT, BCPCC
President
American Association of Christian Counselors | | | P.S. – Go to LightUniversity.com/MentalHealthCoach to inquire and enroll NOW, or call 800-526-8673. Nearly 10,000 churches are already locked in, and 25,000 students have started classes. Don't miss this one!!
Endnotes
1. Czeisler MÉ , Lane RI, Petrosky E, et al. Mental Health, Substance Use, and Suicidal Ideation During the COVID-19 Pandemic — UnitedStates, June 24–30, 2020. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2020;69:1049–1057. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6932a1external icon. | AACC is committed to assisting Christian counselors, the entire 'community of care,' licensed professionals, pastors, and lay church members. Our goal is to equip clinical, pastoral, and lay caregivers with biblical truth and psychosocial insights that minister to hurting people and help them move to personal wholeness, interpersonal competence, mental stability, and spiritual maturity.
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