News and notes from AMD, 20 September 2019

Here are the highlights of postings this week from the Association of Ministers with Disabilities, Disability Ministries Committee, Mental Health Ministries, Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Ministries Committee, and UM Congress of the Deaf:

• October 5, 2019. Mental Health Symposium, Navigating the Path to Liberation and Healing, St. Luke "Community" UMC, Dallas TX.
  
• Blog: Seminary Students Learn Overdose Prevention
• Southwest ADA Center: ADA Impact 2020 Survey
  

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AMD

• Random Acts of Expression: Prayer for Peace
• Review: Sleep, Pray, Heal: A Path to Wholeness and Well-Being
• UM Insight: Pastors, Take Care of Yourselves
• Psychology Today: Religion and Mental Health 
  
• MWF: Mental Illness, My Thoughts
• Random Acts of Expression: Hildegard of Bingen
• Upper Room: Breaking the stigma 
  

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DHM/UMCD

• NAD: Dangerous Healthcare Changes
• HLAA tinnitus webinar
• Twenty Thousand Hertz: Deaf Gain 
  
• NPR: Untreated Hearing Loss and Isolation
• You Tube (captioned): Woman blamed for Deaf children starts ministry
• DHM website: workplace and ADA resources
• Hearing Health: Emotions and hearing loss
  

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DMC

• UMCOR in Zimbabwe
• Backbones: SCI burnout 
  
• NCCJ: Ableism
• Life of a blind girl: Explaining disability to children
• Jewish Journal: If Moses could lobby Pharaoh... 
  

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MHM

• Brochure from Mental Health Ministries: Addiction: How Congregations Can Respond
• Press-Enterprise Interview with Susan Schroeder: Harvest Ministries pastor's suicide
•  Video: FAITH LEADERS' GUIDE TO SELF-CARE AFTER A SUICIDE
  

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