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FOUND ON THE NET
Alcoholism and Borderline Personality Disorder
Learn about the prevalence of alcoholism in BPD, the reasons that alcoholism and BPD occur together so often, and how to get help for yourself or a loved one with alcoholism and BPD.

A Family Guide To Keeping Youth Mentally Healthy & Drug Free
Public education web site developed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to communicate to parents and other caring adults about how they can help promote their child's mental health and reduce his or her risk for becoming involved with alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs.

Borderline Personality Disorder in the Internet Age
The Internet can be useful for people with borderline personality disorder, since they can join virtual support groups and read about their disorder. However, social networking sites and e-mail also make it easier for them to act out on some of their more dangerous tendencies.

Give the Gift of Recovery
Do you have a friend or know of someone who just lost a job, is struggling with life, addiction or relationships, has a new baby, etc.? Don't do something that matters little after a day or two. Make a difference!
There are many ways to give the gift of recovery to a friend or loved one.

ANSWERS
Why "Christian" Recovery?

Two Questions Can ID Youth At Risk of Smoking
Researchers say youth at risk of becoming smokers can be identified by asking two simple questions: "Would it be easy for you to get a cigarette?" and "Do you have friends who smoke?"

TOOLS THAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Life Journal - Award winning personal journal software for you to write, reflect, and review securely and privately

Christian Life Journal - Inspires you to write, to organize your writings within the context of your Christian life, and track your journey

Sober Life Journal - Designed especially for those who want to stop drinking alcohol or abusing drugs for good.

DID YOU KNOW?
Recovery is sanctification
Using the concept of recovery emphasizes the fact that it is a process, and not something that happens in an instant. This is just how the Bible refers to sanctification -- the continuing process of growth into the image of Christ. In Romans 12:2, the Apostle Paul refers to sanctification as a process. In this passage the word translated "transformed" is in the Greek present passive indicative tense, which implies an on-going activity, rather than a one time act. Paul, then, exhorts believers to actively and consciously engage in an on-going process of separation from their old sinful way of life and to increasingly set themselves apart to God through a continual renewal of their minds.

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CHRISTIAN RECOVERY READING
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders: A Complete Guide to Getting Well and Staying Well
Morbid obsessions with sex, germs, or with one's appearance, and uncontrollable compulsions to hoard objects, to check and recheck locks, or to pull one's hair are just a few of the symptoms of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders, which afflict over ten million Americans. Many suffer in isolation, not knowing that their disorder has a name, how to seek help, or how to help themselves.

Destination Joy: Moving Beyond Fear, Loss, and Trauma in Recovery.
This book offers help and answers. Whether you've hit an obstacle in your recovery from addiction, you're experiencing periodic relapse, or you're simply longing for something more, here is a true and certain guide to living more abundantly in recovery.

Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous
The difinitive book on sex, love and pornography addiction by SLAA (Sex And Love Addicts Anonymous). This book will change your life.

I Deserve Respect: Finding and Healing Shame in Personal Relationships
Relationships can be built around respect and trust. This pamphlet offers us solutions if we are in a shame-based relationship. Included is information about becoming aware of how we are shamed and may be shaming others, connecting our shaming behaviors with our internal shame and self-hatred, and confronting shaming behavior directed at us.

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WISDOM FROM A CIR MEMBER
Just because it seems like the war never ends it does 
not mean we are losing. It means that  we have something 
to defend.   --jazzdoc007

RECOVERY EVENTS & CONFERENCES

** Listing of Worldview Conferences
(CIR Member's Only Area)

** Pure Life Ministries 2008 Conference Schedule
Sexual Sin Recovery

** Exodus International Events
Freedom from the bondage of Same Sex Attraction and Homosexuality

** If you know of a Christian recovery event in your area and
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HELP FOR RECOVERY
x3watch
Whenever you browse the Internet and access a site which may contain questionable material, the program will save the site name on your computer in a hidden folder. A person of your choice (an accountability partner) will receive an email containing all possible questionable sites you may have visited within the month. This information is meant to encourage open and honest conversation between friends and help us all be more accountable.

Accountable 2 You
Designed for people wanting to be held accountable for time spent online. This software is not intended to fight online addictions but rather to prevent the temptations by accountability. Our software helps the process of accountability by allowing your time online to be transparent to your accountability partner(s).

FOR RECOVERY PROFESSIONALS 
Smokers of Strong Marijuana May Be at Greater Risk of Psychosis
British researchers say that users of a potent strain of marijuana nicknamed "skunk" were 18 times more likely to have suffered a psychotic episode than other marijuana users.

Homelessness Resource Center website designed to support individuals working to improve the lives of people affected by homelessness who have mental health conditions, substance use disorders, and histories of trauma.

Course 304 - Ministry Management and Leadership (3 credits) Practical principles to assist leaders to more effectively manage nonprofit organizations. The assignments explore the four primary tasks for successful management: planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. A major portion of the course is dedicated to the process of leadership development and an understanding of the various stages of the formation of a Christian leader.

Course 306 – Managing Residential Recovery Programs (3 credits) - A study of effective strategies for working with addicts in a live-in setting which includes topics such as ethics and policies, multicultural sensitivity, and a general knowledge of addiction and addiction counseling’s twelve core functions of counseling.

Course 311 - Theology & Strategy of Urban Mission (3 credits) The urbanization of the world presents the church with the unprecedented opportunity and challenge to recognize and plant “signs of the kingdom” in settings that include great change, extraordinary human diversity, centered power, creativity, heightened temptations and many forms of dysfunctionality, both personal and institutional. This course is a historical and Biblical study of the role of the City in ministry and its insights on understanding God’s purposes for effective and transformative change in the City.

Course 405 - Nonprofit Financial Planning (3 credits) An analysis of the principles of financial planning, including such topics as: basic planning and leadership principles, underlying organizational issues involved with planning and budgeting, financial planning principles and practices (including in-depth analysis of one organization’s planning process) and knowledge of how organizational ethics, norms, strategic planning and direction influence both its income and expenses.

Course 415 -Professional Counseling Practices (3 credits) An overview of the professional practices that counselors utilize in the treatment of clients with substance use and abuse issues. To prepare for effective counseling, several steps must be performed, including screening, assessment, and treatment planning. Students will learn to select and implement various screening and comprehensive assessment instruments to best determine client pathology and severity of addictions. Students will also be able to plan the proper course of treatment for individual clients which includes identifying and defining the client’s problems and devising goals, objectives, and interventions to help return the client to normal functioning.

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