Faith-Based Health Resources
Here is a list of resources that will be useful in getting a faith-based health program started. Some resources will assist you in thinking about programs to develop. Other resources will be useful in thinking about ways to sustain your program.
You will find additional resources that you might find useful on this website under the "Educational Resource" pages. Take a look and find links to many useful resources.
Capacity Building Toolkits for Faith-Based and Community Organizations
This website provides links to tools and resources that might be useful to faith-based organizations.
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Center for Faith-based and neighborhood Partnerships
This website provides information for faith-based and community organizations to serve individuals, families, and communities.
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Church Health Survey Questionnaire
At this website, you can locate some surveys and other information that might be useful to your church as you develop your health committee and faith-based health ministry.
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Clergy Health Research and Reports
This website was updated in 2011 and has links to many studies about clergy health concerns. Take a look at these reports and consider their value in the lives of churches today.
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Faith and Health Connection
This ministry was founded to teach people an integrated spirit, mind and body approach to wellness and living a healthy life, all based on Christian principles. They bring the perspective that spirit, mind, and body are inseparable and all are important aspects of life. A number of resources that might be useful in programs and activities for local churches can be found here.
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Health Ministries Association
This website has information about an organization that aims to develop whole person ministries that integrate faith and health. Unfortunately, it appears this website has not been kept up to date.
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In My Backyard
This neighborhood-based health and education initiative promotes HOPE (Healthy Options for People Everywhere). The back yard is used as a platform for activities that include exercise, nutrition, and health education.
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International Parish Nurse Resource Center
This website provides information about the parish nursing role in local churches or congregations. The focus of the work is to assist faith communities to maintain or regain wholeness in body, mind, and spirit. If you are a nurse or a health professional, you will likely find some useful information at this website.
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Institute for Local Government
The Institute for Local Government's Healthy Neighborhoods Project provides support and resources local officials can use to protect and improve community health by integrating health considerations into their planning, land use and other decisions. This might be a resource local communities can use to plan the development and use of healthy environments.
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Let's Move Faith and Communities: Toolkit for Faith-based & Neighborhood Organizations
This program was started by First Lady Michelle Obama to address childhood obesity within this generation so that children can have a healthy adulthood. This program involves churches, schools, families, and communities. Look through the website and find information that you can use locally. The program will be useful in finding ways to think about and improve the quality of life for young and old. You will find link to additional resources that you can use to partner with others in your county and make important changes.
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Let's Move for Health care Providers
Health care providers directly influence the health of children's and adults. This is a good place for local people working in your community to learn ways to help others have healthier lives.
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Let's Move in Indian Country
Many people that live in the Appalachian region of the USA have a shared history with the nations Native Americans. Obesity is a special concern for those with Native American ancestry. Why not spend some time learning about those that lived in your area in the past? What kinds of traditions, celebrations, foods, and activities were part of the past? Learn some new things to explore at this website.
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Let's Move Museums and Gardens
The USA has about 17,500 museums that host about 850 million people each year. Find ideas about museums, zoos, public gardens, historic sites, and science or technology centers to visit.
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Let's Move Outside
This website has some good ideas about ways to get moving outside. You can find ideas about where to go and what to do. Find new things to do outside with your family members, friends, neighbors, and church family.
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MinistryWatch.COM
Each year MinistryWatch.com produces a list of 30 Christian ministries that we believe are among the most exemplary of the many great ministries doing the Lord's work. We refer to this list as our "Shining Lights Ministries" as these organizations allow their good works to shine.
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Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships
The White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships works to build bridges between the federal government and nonprofit organizations, both secular and faith-based, to better serve Americans in need. The Office advances this work through 11 Agency Centers across government and a Strategic Advisor at the Corporation for National and Community Service.
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Parish Nursing
This website can provide you with many resources that can assist you to move forward and assist your local church members to integrate ideas about faith and health. Ideas about a Faith Based Health Ministry and parish nursing bring the elements of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health into focus so that congregational activities become meaningful and relevant for today's communities. Through a Health Ministry, congregations are transformed into dynamic agents demonstrating God's love for one another and the community at large. Scripture records the messages that belief and faith in God bring healing and wholeness. Following the example of Christ's ministry of healing, and understanding the principles of whole person health, congregations develop vibrant ministries for health and wholeness. In partnership with community healthcare entities, congregations can apply wholistic health promotion and disease prevention across the age span of the congregation, and reach out to care for those in need. You can find a parish nurse job description at this website.
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Partnerships for the Common Good
This toolkit provides a guide for working together to improve the places where we live. Churches and their local members can work together with others to strengthen the common good and the quality of life for all living in a community. This resource can supply useful information for developing partnerships and building local capacities.
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Public Health
This website has a number of links that might be useful as your health committee and congregation begin developing health programs.
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Rural Assistance Center
At this website you can locate answers to common questions about faith-based initiatives and links to places to find other information.
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United States Department of Veterans Affairs
This website provides links to many VA and federal programs that offer benefits for veterans and others.
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White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity Report to the president (2011)
President Barack Obama established the first-ever Task Force on Childhood Obesity to develop and implement an inter-agency plan details a coordinated strategy, identifies key benchmarks, and outlines an action plan to end the problem of childhood obesity within a generation. The goal of the action plan is to reduce the childhood obesity rate to just five percent by 2030 – the same rate before childhood obesity first began to rise in the late 1970s. In total, the report presents a series of 70 specific recommendations, many that can be implemented right away.
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