COULD YOU
Host a Church Mental Health Day
Conversations about mental health are happening everywhere, including in our churches. People want to know how their faith connects to emotional wellbeing, and how they can effectively support those who are struggling.
Our Church Mental Health Days offer practical, faith-based training that equips your church community to understand mental health, reduce stigma, and offer appropriate support.
Equip Your Church. Serve Your Community.
Churches are increasingly supporting people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, loneliness, crisis situations, and complex emotional needs, yet many leaders and volunteers feel underprepared.
Encourage Mental Health partners with churches to host practical, faith-informed mental health training days that equip church teams while also serving the wider Christian community.
This is a simple partnership model: your church hosts the event, and we provide the training, booking systems, speakers, and resources.
What Is a Church Mental Health Day?
A one-day workshop designed to help churches:
Grow in confidence around mental health
Support people more safely and compassionately
Reduce stigma within church culture
Understand boundaries and healthy support
Create mentally healthier church communities
Training is practical, compassionate, biblically grounded, and accessible for leaders, volunteers, pastoral teams, youth workers, and anyone involved in caring for people. We encourage the whole congregation to come along, as mental health is an issue that requires a whole community to be active in supporting and caring for those experiencing difficulties.
What we provide
Experienced speakers to lead the day
A workbook full of resources for everyone who attends
A bookstore full of interesting titles for further reading
National and online promotion support
Event booking and ticketing page
What your Church Provides
A suitable venue - go as big as you like!
Volunteers on the day to provide a welcoming environment for attendees
Tea, coffee, and refreshments
Local promotion within your church and surrounding churches
What Your Church Receives
As a host church partner, we give you:
Free Tickets
For your church leaders, volunteers, pastoral team, safeguarding team, youth workers, and ministry leaders.
A Free Church Mental Health Audit Review
A supportive review designed to help your church identify strengths, gaps, and practical next steps.
Increased Confidence Across Your Team
Equip your people with practical tools and understanding to support others more wisely and safely.
Opportunity to Serve the Wider Church Community
Hosting a training day helps you to support other churches in your area to develop a better understanding of mental health issues.
Hosting A Church Mental Health Day Is Ideal For...
Churches that:
Have a heart for pastoral care
Want to strengthen support systems
Are seeing increasing mental health needs in their congregation or community
Want to reduce stigma around mental illness
Desire to better equip leaders and volunteers
Enjoy partnering with other churches in their area
About Encourage Mental Health
Encourage Mental Health exists to equip churches and Christian organisations to respond more compassionately, safely, and confidently to mental health challenges.
Training is delivered by Dr Cheryl Hawkins, former psychiatrist, mental health trainer, speaker, and founder of Encourage Mental Health. Cheryl combines professional experience, lived experience, and a deep understanding of church culture to provide training that is practical, accessible, and rooted in compassion.
Frequently Asked Questions
Don't worry, we got you. Here are some answers for your questions.
This depends on your venue capacity. Many churches host between 40–200 attendees just let us know what your maximum capacity is when you book.
No. The partnership model is based on shared responsibilities. Your church provides the venue and practical hosting support, while Encourage Mental Health manages ticketing, speakers, promotion support, and training delivery.
No. The training is suitable for volunteers, pastoral teams, youth workers, small group leaders, safeguarding teams, and anyone supporting people within church life. We love it when everyone gets involved. Mental health struggles are common and the more people we can train to respond well the better we can support everyone without anyone burning out.
Absolutely. We encourage churches across denominations to learn together and build supportive local networks.
Yes. We can discuss the needs of your church and local area when planning the event.
Interested in Hosting a Church Mental Health Day?
We would love to explore partnering with your church.
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Together, we can equip churches to respond to mental health with wisdom, compassion, and confidence.
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