Volume 5, Issue 6 June 2009
June 2, 2009
To quote the REM song that surely dates me, “Everybody Hurts”. Yet sometimes with our kids, we fail to see their deepest needs – or maybe we see them, but have trouble facing them.
In this FYI E-Journal, we start our new series on “Hurting Kids and Families”. To kick off the series, we’re showcasing our new FYI video, a video that helps capture some of the pain of kids in your ministry. This E-Journal also includes new research-based resources on an issue that we are constantly asked questions about: self-injury. Plus given the buzz being created by our new book, Deep Justice Journeys, we offer a new resource on using social media to strengthen your short-term mission team.
As we continue our “Hurting Kids and Families” series over the summer, we’ll be sending you interviews with Dr. Chap Clark from Fuller, as well as Megan Hutchinson from Saddleback Church. So this is a great time to encourage another youth worker you know to subscribe so they can start receiving FYI’s free resources too.
Everybody does hurt. I’m so glad Jesus is with us – and our students – in the midst of our pain.
FYI Feature Video
Have you ever wondered what gets us out of bed in the morning to do what we do at FYI? Watch this new video that captures our passion for helping you get out of bed and do what you do more effectively and with deeper impact each day!
Beyond Skin Deep:
Responding to Kids Who Cut
For many of the youth we know, cutting and other forms of self-harm have become commonplace coping mechanisms for their pain. Learn more about the reasons behind — and helpful responses to — self-injury among adolescents.
Dale Ryan Self-Injury Seminar
Dr. Dale Ryan, addiction and recovery expert, trains youth workers on understanding and responding to teenagers who cut and perform other acts of self-harm. Dale offers helpful insights into the “whys” of self-injury and the “what now?” we face when we discover self-injury in the lives of kids we know.
I Think I’m Gay: Having Healthy Dialogue with Kids Who Struggle with Sexual Orientation
As the societal pendulum swings toward greater openness to the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) community, we are faced with the reality that it’s a growing struggle among more and more of the kids in our groups. Irene Cho shares insights from Andrew Marin’s research and new book, Love is an Orientation, and offers tools we can implement to respond.
Living More Than Mission Trip to Mission Trip:
Leveraging Social Media to Multiply a Missional Team
What happens to that incredible mission team a few weeks after the trip? Too often, nothing. If you’re no longer satisfied with that result, prepare yourself for this innovative and practical look into utilizing social media to catalyze a missional movement (Part 2 of a series).
©2009 Fuller Youth Institute