Suicide Prevention Tips

Post by Richard G. Burns, J.D. (author Dick B.)

What a Christian Recovery Resource Center Requirements to Do and Be

Dick B.
Executive Director, International Christian Recovery Coalition
© 2010 Anonymous. All rights reserved

A participant, at no cost, in the International Christian Recovery Coalition http://www.ChristianRecoveryCoalition.com.

A voluntary, listed Christian Recovery Resource Center of the International Christian Recovery Coalition.

Furnish our International Christian Recovery Coalition office in Maui with the following:

Your full name as an individual or as an entity.

Your mailing address and, if various, your Center’s street address, city, state, and zip.

Your telephone number and—if you have one—your email, website, and Facebook page.

Your main region of Christian recovery interest and service

The Christian recovery services you supply now—taken from our list, which includes
Assessment and Qualification of newcomers Interview Intervention Detox, and medical aid medical supervision Christian counseling Christian treatment Christian Track treatment Christian residential treatment family problems Christian following-care Christian sober living Christian recovery fellowships Chaplain-Recovery Pastor-Licensed Christian counselors individual and group Christian counseling and therapy Bible teaching and study individual and group prayer sessions, and Quiet Time alcoholism and addiction education orientation to the origins, history, founding, original program, successes, and later modifications in the A.A.-12 Step movement the original Akron A.A. “Christian fellowship” program and 14 practices of the A.A. pioneers in Akron Instruction in the Big Book and how to “take” the 12 Steps a Christian recovery Library Training in discipleship and sponsorship A.A./N.A. meeting attendance Christian and Christ-Centered group attendance Christian recovery speaker meetings relapse Prevention music and singing medical aspects of alcoholism and addiction physical exercise, nutrition, and wholesome recreation fellowship with like-minded believers witnessing and carrying the Christian recovery message routing the alcoholic and addict to wellness, job, housing, financial, veteran-military rewards and care, vocational and educational training, and social agencies and services in the community and area church services, sermons, pastoral and recovery assist, religious convocations, seminars, conferences, church fellowships and study groups and membership activities Follow-up help with continuing communication, Christian centers, youth centers, retirement centers, rehabs, athletic activity, volunteer work, sober clubs, sober centers, sober activities, athletic and fitness function, new hobbies and interests wholesome dances, picnics, camp-outs, beach activities, sports events, movies and plays, musical events and concerts, winter sports and activities, golf, tennis, football, baseball, soccer, rugby, basketball fishing and hunting travel and sight-seeing activities participating in community services via the YMCA, Scouts, Massive Brothers, Red Cross, the Salvation Army, Toys for Tots, Little League, service clubs, food distribution continuing and adult education continuing job training and education and organizations like Future Farmers, bands and choruses and orchestras, hiking clubs, hobby clubs, surfing and canoe clubs, horseback riding, swim clubs, marathons, racing, bicycling and motorcycle
clubs.

Literature, flyers, brochures, tapes, CD’s, DVD’s, newsletters, program data

Names of Christian recovery resources in your community and area or organization
to whom you will refer newcomers and families

Charges, fees, expenses and costs to other people in connection with your services

Other centers, agencies, programs, leaders, facilities, and people we really should contact or
whom you will contact to assist us expand the network of resource centers.

Be a message-carrier in and to your community and location, disseminating data about Christian recovery, Christian recovery resources, Christian counseling, and Christian Recovery Resource Centers, notifying:

Schools and colleges prisons and jails hospitals and mental institutions churches and clergy charitable agencies (like the American Red Cross), the neighborhood office of the American Medical Association, nursing associations, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, the United Way, the YMCA, athletic teams, clinics, newspapers, radio shows, Television shows, columnists, producers, reporters, editors, visitors bureaus, service clubs, womens clubs, trade associations, unions, company and skilled associations, bar associations, chaplains, the Salvation Army, health organizations, religious associations, government offices, legislators, government well being agencies, police, fire departments, suicide prevention, visitor centers, educators, scientists, researchers, speaker groups, nearby offices of other national organizations, dentists, and psychologists and psychiatrists.