All Souls Mental Health Ministry Network
Mental Health Ministry Profile
The All Souls Parish Mental Health Ministry (MHM) aims to improve the lives of those experiencing mental health challenges.
The focus is to provide 1) spiritual companionship, 2) practical support, and 3) education.
For confidential communication, more information, or to join the Ministry, please call 650 296-9659 or email allsoulsmhm@gmail.com
Jasmin T. Flores
Bringing Christ to Families experiencing Mental Health Challenges
Our parish mental health ministry is not intended to replace professional or clinical services and does not provide professional care.
Our volunteers are trained in appropriate procedures designed to maintain the privacy of those with whom they relate. Our parish offers assistance because we love, care for and want the best for our families and neighbors.
If you or a family member are experiencing mental health challenges, please contact our parish Mental Health Ministry team or contact the SFSP Crisis Line:
415-781-0500
24 hours a day/ 7 days a week.
In an emergency, please call 911.
Message from Archbishop Cordialeone
Al lot our parishes have family members suffering from the challenge of mental illness, and despite modern understanding of mental illness, many suffer additionally from stigma. Their pain is often felt in silence, hidden and unrecognized by others. For many people, mental illness represents an ongoing and lifelong burden.
Christ call us to attend to all those who suffer, including those suffering from mental illness. My brother bishops and I here in California have launched a mental illness awareness effort, calling attention to the fact that we are all called to provide hope and healing, and that we as a Church must accompany our brothers and sisters in their difficulties. We can help to bear their burdens by offering our understanding, prayers, and tangible resources. No one should be isolated and left alone. We must meet people where they are-in our parishes.
The good news about mental illness is that recovery is possible. We know that Jesus’ ministry was one of hope and the healing; his Church must also offer hope and healing, by using available resources to help those in need.
Our parish-based Mental Health Ministry teams will play a key role in this important mission of easing the suffering of those in our parishes.
Archbishop Cordialeone
And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age."
Matthew 28: 18-20 (RSV-CE)