2025 Annual Conference
2025 Seminar Resources
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Pre-Conference
Pre-Conference Counseling Intensive: Empowering Engagement Through Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Seminar Group 1
A Biblical Perspective on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Human Resources 101
Bridging the Skills Gap: Strategies for Workforce Development
Building Resilience: Addressing Provider Burnout Through Intentional Boundaries
CEO Engagement; a Critical Ingredient to Fundraising Success
Seminar Group 2
Navigating the Conversation: Addressing Problematic Marijuana Use in the Era of Legalization
Setting Your Board Up for Success
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy/Dialectical Behavior Therapy: A Christian Perspective
Seminar Group 3
Get Government Grants Without Losing Your Mission
Creating Pathways to Employment Through the Defense Talent Program
Seminar Group 4
Protecting Your Staff from Vicarious Trauma
How to Unleash the Power of Volunteers in Your Kitchen
Seminar Group 5
Supporting Recovery Together: Behavioral Couples Therapy for Substance se and Co-Occurring Disorders
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Client & Culture
Tracking Global Trends and Other Critical Ministry Topics
- A Biblical Perspective on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Hispanic Culture: Challenges and Opportunities
- How Do Our Actions Help or Hurt Our Client’s Perception of God
- A Roadmap for Nonprofit Partnerships
Leadership & Staff Development
Inspiring Intentionality and Growth for Ministry Leaders
- Ask Anything: Insights and Answers from Mission Leaders
- Setting Your Board Up for Success
- Leadership Lessons:Taking a Mission from Survive to Thrive
- Follow the Leader
Organizational Growth
Investing in the Team’s Capacity to Ensure Healthy Growth Across the Entire Ministry
- Bridging the Skills Gap: Strategies for Workforce Development
- Managing the Transition with New Staff
- Leader Care and the Impact on Trust
- Unlocking Potential: Understanding Your Team’s Nervous System
Transformational Programming
Inspiring Life-Changing Programs Toward Next-Level Outcomes
- Restoring Financial Hope Through Crisis
- Getting Unstuck in Client Relationships
- Cognitive Behavioral/Dialectical Behavior Therapies: A Christian Perspective
- Understanding Youth Homelessness
- Relapse: Growth Opportunity or Personal Failure?
- When Home Isn’t a Safe Place
- Aftercare: The Key to Long-term Recovery
- Creating Pathways to Employment Through the Defense Talent Program
Foundations of Counseling
Merging Clinical Approaches with Ministerial Heart
- Building Resilience: Addressing Provider Burnout Through Intentional Boundaries
- Navigating the Conversation: Addressing Problematic Marijuana Use in the Era of Legalization
- Challenging Relationships: Dealing With the Kinds of Personalities that Make You Question Yourself
- Navigating Male Sexuality in Ministry: Guiding Toward Healing and Wholeness
Resource Development
Leveraging Resource Pathways to Maximize Ministry
- CEO Engagement; a Critical Ingredient to Fundraising Success
- Get Government Grants without Losing Your Mission
- From Boomers to Gen Z: How Generations Shape Giving
- Optimize the New Donor Experience
- Strategic Storytelling: Making Good Fundraising Videos
- From Friends to Family: Create a Planned Giving Pipeline
- AI-Driven Decisions: Leveraging Data for Lasting Impact
- A Practical Approach to Building a Healthy Grants Program
Public Image & Branding Strategies
Deepening Community Connections through High-Impact Communications and Branding
- Making Numbers Count: Storytelling with Data
- Real Connection in a Digital World: Branding Your Mission’s Heart Online
- Getting Attention: Tips for News Editors
- Avoiding a Media Crisis (and what to do when you can’t)
- Avoiding a Media Crisis (and what to do when you can’t)
Operations & Administration
Galvanizing Ministries with Best Practices in HR, Finances, Facilities, Technology, and More
- Human Resources 101
- Enhancing Efficiency and Control with Technology Solutions
- Before Your Security Team Arrives
- Building and Breaking Emergency Management Plans
Frontline Services & Hospitality
Elevating Service, Ensuring Safety, Embracing Hospitality
- Welcoming Hearts: Cultivating Hospitality in Nonprofit Ministry
- Taking it to the Streets
- Change Vouchers: Reduce Begging and Increase Referrals to Support Services
- How to Unleash the Power of Volunteers in Your Kitchen
Enterprise & Retail
Catalyzing Entrepreneurial Spirit for Ministry Outcomes and Resource Growth
- Leveraging Social Enterprise to Strengthen Longterm Programming
- Diversifying Your Funding with Regular Revenue
- Develop a Teaching Kitchen
- Why Focusing on the Donor and Gift Matters More than Focusing on the Customer
Hot Topics
Addressing the Burning Questions and Provocative Subjects of Today and Tomorrow
- Building a Shared Campus
- Technology’s Transformative Role in Ministry
- Beyond the Roof: Creating Sustainable Solutions When Housing Isn’t Enough
- The Legal Landscape
Mission Foundations
Laying Groundwork for Sustainable, Faith-Driven Transformation
- Teaching Staff Core Values and Theology
- Developing Effective Aftercare Programs
- Develop a Teaching Kitchen
- Protecting Your Staff from Vicarious Trauma