Church Mental Health Readiness Assessment

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Church Mental Health Readiness Assessment

Take this assessment to determine your church’s level of mental health readiness. After completing the assessment, explore the Church Mental Health Readiness Next Steps resource to find the best next steps for your church to take in getting more equipped.

Email *

Your First & Last Name *

How would you describe your church's level of mental health readiness?
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Level 1 ELITE: Our church provides clinical services with licensed clinician(s) as well as an equipped team of other Mental Health First Responders with a wide array of skills to engage, connect, de-escalate, triage, refer, case manage, and offer a variety of need-specific support groups. We are a HIPAA compliant covered healthcare entity.

Level 2 EXCELLENT: Our church provides clinical services but has no lay team of extenders.

Level 3 ENHANCED: Our church has a clinical staff member in charge of a multi-person non-clinical team providing triage, referrals, discipleship, and support groups.

Level 4 ENGAGED: Our church has a trained non-clinician person in charge of a multi-person team providing triage, referrals, discipleship, and support groups/services.

Level 5 ENTRY: Our church has a non-trained non-clinical person in charge.

Level 6 EAGER: Our church realizes the mental health need, wants to be in the battle and help, and is motivated and excited to grow in its equipping, services, and impact.

Level 7 EVASIVE: Not antagonistic, but unaware of the church’s need or the opportunity mental health ministry has for evangelizing and making disciples and improving the spiritual health and maturity of their body and staff.

Level 8: ENTANGLED/ENTRAPPED: Our church has no interest in bringing in any psychological expertise and sees this scientific field as distracting and un-Biblical.

Does your church have an official congregational care ministry that engages with and intentionally helps people with behavioral health issues? *

Official ministry in our church org chart.

Nothing organized, only organic process with lead pastor as default lead because no-one else in place.

We don't have a congregational care ministry, organized or organic.

Does your church have a behavioral health residential component of some kind for addictions, sex trafficking, trauma survivors, homeless, etc? *

Residential Behavioral Health ministry or retreat providing clinical services.

Residential Behavioral Health ministry or retreat with non-clinical services.

No residential Behavioral Health ministry.

Does your church have a referral list of clinical options outside of your organization? *

Robust list of outside Christian options that are vetted

List for usual counseling

Sparse list

List but not vetted

Non-Christian list

What is your church's level of training for your lay volunteers? *

AACC Mental Health Coach First Responder

Stephen’s Ministry, Hope Made Strong, Spiritual First Aid, Grace Alliance or other BH training

Addiction Ministry Training (Recovery Alive, Celebrate Recovery, Addiction Victorious, etc)

No training for lay volunteers

Other

Required

What is your church's level of mental health DNA? (select all that apply): (i.e. mental health awareness, discussion, prevention, skills, and help incorporated into other church ministries.) *

Pulpit (sharing inner space, teaching topically about mental health issues, unpacking Bible stories and examining the psychological elements of the stories or characters as part of the overall lesson)

Prayer groups praying for people with Behavioral Health issues

Small Groups

Youth Ministries

Child Ministries

Young Adult Ministries

VBS

Premarital Integration

Congregational Care Team (hospital visits, shut ins, meals, and other non-Behavioral Health care situations as many needing these services usually have some Behavioral Health need or vulnerability)

Other

Required

How many support or affinity peer-led groups does your church have? (i.e. Divorce Recovery, addiction support/recovery group, Grief Share, etc.) *

1-4

What is your church's crisis response time of getting back to the person in need? *

0-1 Hour

1-4 Hours

4-24 Hours

1-3 Days

4+ Days

What are your church's policies, procedures, and administrative process around your behavioral health ministry/services? *

Procedures and policies in place, intake, documentation, and tracking

No overt procedures and policies but has formal intake, documentation and tracking process

Loose intake, documentation and tracking process

No formal administrative elements in place but we would like to

No formal administrative elements and we don’t want to develop any

Does your church have individuals with mental health training? (Biblical Counselors, Pastoral Counselors, Chaplains, etc) *

Yes

No but we plan to

What types of Explorers can your church engage, triage, and help move toward healing?
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Those experiencing mild situational stress or emotional difficulties, but no significant distress or impairment in daily functioning (work and/or personal life).

Those experiencing minor behavioral health issues, with mild distress or minimal impairment in daily functioning.

Those experiencing more serious mental health issues or addictions - with moderate distress and impairment in daily functioning.

Those experiencing very serious mental health issues or crisis situations (suicidal, abuse), with high levels of distress or impaired functioning.

None of the above

A copy of your responses will be emailed to the address you provided.

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