Dates: June 9 – July 21, 2012
Cost: $1800 (Tuition, Room and Board)
Seminars: We welcome YWAMers or members of the community to join us for any week of the Children at Risk Seminar. Commuter costs are $200/week (includes lunch each day). Resident Costs are $350/week (includes all meals and housing).
Apply: To attend any of the six weeks of the Children at Risk Seminar, complete your application here. You will also need a reference from a Pastor or a YWAM Leader and a reference from a Christian friend.
YWAM Madison is partnering with the Women and Children’s Advocacy Centre to offer a six week Children at Risk Seminar. Each week will feature teaching from ministry and social service professionals who have extensive experience helping children at risk. Through lectures, discussions, small group interaction, community living, assignments and research, you will discover new strategies to rescue and restore children at risk.
The stories of children around the world are staggering. Throughout the world millions of children are orphaned through war, through AIDS, through extreme poverty. Every seven seconds a child dies from a preventable disease. Drug addiction runs rampant. Children are sold into prostitution or forced to become child soldiers. They’re lost and they have no place to live. These children have no hope. And these are the ones that are on the heart of God.
The Children at Risk School will focus on the needs of children around the world and the issues that put them at risk — sex trafficking, poverty, AIDS, abuse, child soldiers, and broken families. We will also focus on the heart of God who promises to be a “Father to the fatherless, who sets the lonely in families.” (Psalm 68:5,6)
CURRICULUM
Week 1-2 (June 11-15 & 18-22): Janna Moats & Colleen Millstein
- Overview of God’s heart for children at risk
- Think Like God thinks. Act Like God Acts.
- What the Bible says about orphans
- What are the needs of children
- Discovery of your gifts, strengths and skills that can be used to help children at risk (what each of you personally bring) + Strength Finders Testing
- How to work with international organizations (Networking).
- How do we use the UN Convention on the rights of a child?
- 3 Threads/Grid > God/World/You
- Child in the Middle
- Begin team projects
Week 3 (June 25-29): Steve Bartel (Practitioner from Columbia)
- How to rescue and restore street children
Week 4 (July 2-6): Dr. Carol Boyd
- How to restore attachment and bonding for orphans & children at risk
Week 5 (July 9-13): Lance Rawlins
- Developing new models for children’s homes
- Developing holistic strategies to affect impoverished communities
- What tools are out there to meet the needs of children at risk
Week 6 (July 16-20): Various Staff from the WCAC
- Problem solving various scenarios at risk kids face
- Student Presentations
Woven throughout all 6 weeks:
- Skype interactions with practitioners on the field who are working with street kids, AIDS orphans, child soldiers, etc.
- Team Children at Risk Projects
For graduates of the Children at Risk School, the possibilities really are endless. Around the world, there are over 1000 YWAM ministries working with children at risk. Every one of these ministries has one pressing problem: the vision and the needs outnumber the workers. Often, a ministry’s greatest hindrance to receiving potential workers is that people are unaware of the need and what can be done to help. Our goal is to bridge the gap between children’s ministries (like schools, orphanages, street kids ministries, etc.) and children’s workers.
Contained in these pages, you will find opportunities for networking, training or interning with children at risk ministries around the world. The opportunities highlighted here are just a few of the many who can receive workers and equip them with on-the-job training.
If you are interested in another location, please contact Paul Allen via Paul@ywammadison.org. We want to do everything we can to see new workers trained and sent to work with children at risk. We will even help you research, prep and plan for CAR internships or pioneering of new ministries.
Past Outreach Highlights:
Rescued from a Brothel
Read the dramatic story of the rescue of two young children from an Indian Brothel.
Meeting Jesus Under the Mango Tree
Read about a Ugandan refugee (forced from his home by the LRA) who crossed paths with our team and told us that we were the answer to his 25 year prayer for his clan.
A Day with Pune’s Street Kids
Read about our team providing a day of food, bathing and fun for Indian street kids.
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