Robert

Retired Clinical Social Worker enjoying the discovery of a meaningful, purposeful, fulfilling path for coping with life's mental and emotional distress for self and others. Robert Skrocki is a Unitarian Universalist lay community minister (https://uuscm.org/Sys/PublicProfile/10327659/845397 ) and retired clinical social worker who devotes his time to promoting: • his own mental health and resiliency through holistic mindfulness spiritual practices and participation in one of his local congregation’s spiritual direction groups, • relational skills to walk alongside those marginalized because of their mental illnesses through training congregational members in Companionship (http://www.pathways2promise.org/companionship-series/ ) • mental health ministry development through: o his congregation’s Pastoral Ministry Associates (http://www.dupageuuchurch.org/ministries ) o communications coordination for the Chicago area Interfaith Mental Health Coalition (www.interfaithmhc.org ) o chairing the board for the national interfaith mental health coalition Pathways to Promise (www.pathways2promise.org ) that promotes mental health ministries partnering with different faith traditions all over the country. (The UU Mental Health Network is represented on the board of Pathways) o mental health awareness through his work as mental health ministry coordinator at the SamaraCare pastoral counseling agency in Naperville IL (http://samaracarecounseling.org/services/mental-health-ministry-development/ ), and his work as a certified trainer in Mental Health First Aid and Youth Mental Health First Aid, and as a certified trainer in development of trauma informed congregations using the “Risking Connections in Faith Communities: A Training Curriculum for Faith Leaders Supporting Trauma” in the Chicago area Trauma Informed Congregations Network (https://www.faithhealthtransformation.org/community-of-practice/trauma-informed-congregations-network/ ). Contact Robert at bpskrocki@comcast.net or phone 630.851.5044 for more information.