Is Your Church Trauma-Informed?
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The Accidental Social Worker
Transform Your Community for Jesus by Understanding Trauma, Poverty, and Addiction
Written by Suzanne Burns
Ministering to those in need can be a challenge -- especially when you watch them slip back into the same self-destructive habits and bad decisions.
What if you found out that there was a better way to help the people that you want to help? What if you could find a way to break through the cultural barriers that exist between those who “have” and those who “have not” and transform both your ministry and the lives of the people you assist?
Learn How Poverty Affects The Decisions People Make
When people live in long-term, generational poverty, they develop a different set of needs, values, and perspective on life than those in the middle class or upper class. This often creates cultural barriers between those ministering to the needy and the people they’re trying to help that actually hinders the ministry’s long-term goals.
Many impoverished people live firmly in the moment -- because they have learned to rely only on what they have right now. Anything else is too uncertain. That makes it very hard for them to conceive of having goals for the future. When you temporarily alleviate their condition with a handout but no plan for empowerment, it accidentally reinforces the idea that “now” is all they have.
How Can Your Church Make A Lasting Difference?
You can learn to reach across the cultural boundaries created by economic class and build strategic policies focused around empowerment. Your ministry then becomes a transformative experience for the disenfranchised who never before believed that they could escape the cycle of poverty. You will show them a real way out, with the grace of God to guide them.
Take the first step to educate yourself and your ministry and learn ways to make a lasting difference in people’s lives. Download your free copy of The Accidental Social Worker: Transform Your Community for Jesus by Understanding Trauma, Poverty, and Addiction by Suzanne Burns today.
Download your FREE COPY NOW!
The Accidental Social Worker
Transform Your Community for Jesus by Understanding Trauma, Poverty, and Addiction
Written by Suzanne Burns
Put My Expertise to Work for Your Ministry
Expert, Trainer & Speaker
I’m Suzanne Burns, and I’ve spent the last 20 years, after some seriously bad choices, working in service to Jesus.
I am also the founder and executive director of Foundation House, a maternity home for pregnant and homeless women. There, we also offer educational and job training programs.
What I have seen there, coupled with my advanced education and involvement with regional and national organizations serving needy populations has taught me a great deal. I’ve gained invaluable insights into the lasting impact of trauma on still-developing minds. And I’ve learned about dealing with the poverty mindset, drug culture, jail culture, opioids, violence, and gangs.
And you know what? By the grace of God, that range of experience is bearing fruit. Many of our maternity home residents are undergoing magnificent transformation.
Wouldn’t you like to see the same kind of results? You can. Begin by downloading your free copy of my book, The Accidental Social Worker. There you’ll find some of the same essential principles of trauma-informed ministry I have already shared with hundreds of ministry leaders. Why don’t you get your free copy today?
You want to do good. I can help you do good—well.
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"My relationship with my youth group has dramatically shifted now that I have a better understanding of the impact of trauma in many of their lives"
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