State of Tennessee Faith-Based Initiatives- The state offers free trainings on: adverse childhood experiences and building strong brains, trauma-informed care, suicide prevention trainings, mental health 101, The Addicted Brain, and Overdose Reversal Training to houses of faith throughout the state. There is an online portal of resources for faith and community leaders that includes podcasts, on-demand trainings, and video discussions. They have held 6000 education forums, with 900 certified recovery congregations in place.

Tennessee Recovery Congregations – A How-To Tool Kit

Common Table Collaborative – stewarding connection among people and organizations who are called to clergy and congregational well-being. Offers excellent webinar trainings. Co-led by Thad Austin

Center for Clergy Renewal at Holy Wisdom Monastery (Madison, Wisconsin) offers opportunities for pastors to experience contemplative renewal through a 2-year cohort experience of individual renewal retreat. This is a Lilly Funded program.

Clergy Health Initiative, Duke Divinity School

Emotional Well-Being, Wespath

Well-being: The Five Essential Elements, Tom Rath and Jim Harter

Clergy Resilience, Margaret Clarke

A Lifelong Call to Learn: Continuing Education for Religious Leaders, Robert E. Reber

• Common Table Collaborative – stewarding connection among people and organizations who are called to clergy and congregational well-being. Offers excellent webinar trainings. Co-led by Thad Austin, TWK Clergy.

• The Church as Frontline Mental Health Workers, Common Table

• Ethical Storytelling – seeks to gather nonprofits to develop a new standard of storytelling that honors and protects those impacted by trauma

• Spirituality Mind Body Institute, Columbia University – exists to integrate spiritual life into our society in order to see a more loving, spiritually aware, and positive society. One pillar is around mental health and wellness. Grants and trainings are available.
• Well-being: The Five Essential Elements, Tom Rath and Jim Harter
• A Lifelong Call to Learn: Continuing Education for Religious Leaders, Robert E. Reber
• The Church and the Response to the Mental Health Crisis, Lewis Center for Church Leadership
• Compassion in Action: A Guide for Faith Communities Serving People Experiencing Mental Illness and Their Caregivers, The Partnership Center, Center for Faith and Opportunity Initiatives, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Trauma-Informed Care in Churches and Faith-based Programs, Urban Alliance
• Mental Health: A Guide for Faith Leaders

• Soul Shop – a faith-based suicide prevention

• Faith. Hope. Life. – a campaign aimed at involved every faith community in the U.S., regardless of creed, in suicide prevention.

• Trauma-Informed Evangelism, Charles Kiser and Elaine A. Heath

• Sacred Series Toolkit: Becoming a Trauma-Informed Faith Community, North Carolina Council of Church

• Trauma-Informed Ministry Series, West Ohio Conference

• Creating Trauma-Informed Congregations, Office of Women’s Health at the U.S> Department of Health & Human Services

• Unspeakable: Preaching and Trauma-Informed Theology, Sarah Travis

• Best Practices for Trauma Informed Speaking, Rodney A. Palmer

• A Biblical Perspective on Trauma, Lewis Center for Church Leadership
• 4 Promises for Church Leaders Healing Trauma in Congregations, Lewis Center for Church Leadership
• Adverse Community Experience and Resilience, Prevention Institute
• Trauma-Informed Pastoral Care 101 Training, by Rev. Dawn Bennett, The Table Nashville

• Study: Religion and spirituality can aid youth mental health crisis, Religion News

• Youth Mental Health and Well-Being in Faith and Community Settings, Health and Human Services

• Campus ministries, counselors join to tackle mental health, Associated Press

• Trauma-Informed Children's Ministry, Michigan Conference