What You Receive
A detailed look at the training, tools, and support included in an Oaks partnership.
Volunteer Training & Resources
Equip your church\u2019s volunteers to walk with people through suffering with confidence and competence.
Oaks provides ongoing training cohorts—both virtual and in-person—that prepare volunteers to serve as advocates, group facilitators, and restorative prayer ministers. Training covers the foundations of peer support, trauma-informed care, healthy boundaries, confidentiality, and the biblical theology of healing.
Partner churches also receive peer support materials, topic-specific curriculum, and access to the Oaks resource library. These resources are designed to be practical and immediately usable, not theoretical.
Advocate Training
A structured mentorship pathway for volunteers who walk alongside individuals in the healing process.
Advocates are trained volunteers who provide consistent, ongoing support to individuals navigating trauma, grief, addiction, or other deep struggles. They are not counselors—they are people with similar life experience who are a few steps ahead in the healing process.
The advocate training pathway includes initial orientation, supervised practice, and ongoing development. Advocates are supervised by Oaks staff and meet regularly for case consultation, ensuring quality care and volunteer well-being.
Support Group Templates
Everything your church needs to launch and sustain topic-specific support groups.
Oaks provides ready-to-use group structures for a variety of topics including trauma and abuse, grief and loss, addiction and compulsive behaviors, body image, disability, and more. Each structure includes facilitator guides, session outlines, intake processes, and participant materials.
Groups are designed to be relational environments where people discover what it looks like to engage in their process of healing with God and others. They are not lecture-based or curriculum-heavy; they are structured around shared experience, honest conversation, and the work of the Holy Spirit.
Restorative Prayer Training
Train teams to facilitate guided prayer sessions that address root issues hindering connection with God.
Restorative prayer is a guided prayer process that aims to address the root of issues hindering personal connection with God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Sessions typically last about an hour and a half to two hours and are facilitated by two trained volunteers.
The process may include asking God to highlight areas where a person is believing something untrue about his character, where they might have first learned to believe this, and asking God what truth he has for them instead. Oaks trains facilitators in the two-person facilitation model and provides ongoing supervision and development.
Clinical Collaboration
Access to consultation with licensed mental health professionals for complex care situations.
Some situations call for clinical expertise beyond what peer support can offer. Through Oaks, partner churches can access virtual consultation with licensed mental health professionals who understand the church context and can help navigate complex care situations.
This is not a counseling referral service—it is collaborative consultation designed to help church leaders and volunteers make wise decisions about care, boundaries, and next steps when situations exceed the scope of peer support.
Clinical collaboration is an optional add-on service available at additional cost. Contact Oaks for details.
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