How Can a Church Care for the Trauma-Afflicted?

Michelle Stiffler 11/11/236:53 PM

(Article posted on Common Good Magazine, Written by MICHELLE STIFFLER, 11.09.2023)

The rate of opioid overdose in Maricopa County, Arizona, was exploding. So in 2018 Tracy Cruikshank, former director at the Maricopa County Department of Public Health, the third largest health department in the nation, began considering collaborative solutions within a large — and largely untapped — population: churches.

And why not churches? Nearly 2,000 faith organizations exist in Maricopa County alone. From a holistic perspective, faith organizations are already anchored to hope, flourishing, and transformation — the elements of any recovery or prevention program. Cruikshank knew that for an effort of this scale, faith organizations and government agencies would need to work interdependently...

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Sanghoon YooMember

Thank you Michelle for the great writing on our Creating Communities of Belonging Project! Our journey continues advancing!

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