Your monthly update on resources and events to support the well-being of people in your congregation and community.
December 2019
Bulletin Insert Focus:
Universal Human Rights Month
Bulletin inserts on many other topics are available in our  archive .  
Mental Health & Substance Abuse Resources
Health & Wellness News and Opportunities

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We hope you find this update helpful as you promote the health of your members and community.

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Advocate Aurora Health News

Advocate Aurora Health announces $50 million commitment to invest in underserved Illinois and Wisconsin neighborhoods. See article .

Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center and other hospitals across Chicago are addressing patients' mental health needs beyond their visit to the hospital. Learn more .

How victims of sexual assault are cared for at the Healing Center at Aurora Sinai. See video .

A group of 48 health systems, hospitals and other healthcare organizations, including Advocate Aurora Health, have penned a letter to Congress urging them to pass a law to combat shortages of critical drugs. Read more .

Advocate South Suburban Hospital launches training program for local unemployed, underemployed Southland residents. See article .

Thinking differently about chronic disease with Mobile Integrated Health. See the details.
Register for Jan. 30 Event
"Convening at the Intersection of Trauma, Faith and Resilience to Connect, Learn, Heal and Serve"

8:00 a.m - 4:00 p.m.

Chicago Teacher's Union Foundation, 1901 W. Carroll Ave., Chicago

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Iva Carruthers, a founding trustee and General Secretary of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference.

Clinical Pastoral Education
Register today - spots are filling quickly for January programs!

Interested in enhancing your pastoral skills, discerning a vocational change, or meeting seminary, ordination and/or board-certified chaplaincy requirements?

Advocate Aurora Health offers Clinical Pastoral Education programs in and between Green Bay, Wisconsin and Bloomington, Illinois in a range of contexts from inner city medical centers to rural community hospitals. Learn  more .




New resources available
Danielle J. Buhuro, CPE Supervisor at Advocate Aurora South Suburban and Trinity hospitals, Chicago, wrote “Spiritual Care in an Age of #BlackLivesMatter: Examining the Spiritual and Prophetic Needs of African Americans in a Violent America.” Rochelle Johnson, Faith and Mental Health Program Specialist for Advocate Health Care, contributed to the book.

Intended for anyone in academia or the helping professions, this comprehensive work benefits those seeking to provide spiritual care to African American hospital patients, counseling clients, church congregants and parishioners, military veterans, or returning service members. 
Rev. Kirsten Peachey, Director of Faith and Health Partnerships for Advocate Aurora Health, and Co-Director for the Center for Faith and Community Health Transformation, recently co-authored "Generative Leadership: Releasing Life in a Turbulent World,"which is the fruit of 18 months of intensive, lively collaboration by 23 people from seven countries on five continents.
Wishing you a happy and blessed Thanksgiving!
Faith and Health Partnerships | AdvocateAuroraHealth


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