C C I S E U P D AT E
Life University’s CCISE Brings
Compassionate
Integrity Training
to Organizations Working to End
Homelessness and Substance Abuse
After successful trainings at a variety of locations, such as St
Columb’s Park House peace center in Derry, Northern Ireland;
Lee Arrendale State Prison for Women and Phillips State Prison
for Men in Georgia; civic leaders in San Antonio and Atlanta;
and a new collaboration with the Charter for Compassion,
Life University’s (LIFE) Center for Compassion, Integrity and
Secular Ethics’ (CCISE) is expanding its Compassionate Integrity
Training (CIT) to new organizations and bringing compassion and
mindfulness to even greater populations.
New CIT training sessions for three organizations, Trinity
Community Ministries, Gateway Center and Cause for Hope,
began in October 2018. Trinity Community Ministries successfully
prepares homeless individuals to become self-sustaining
members of society with functional households, sobriety and
full-time employment, while Gateway Center works to end
homelessness in Metro Atlanta through therapeutic programs
and community collaboration — a keystone project of the
Regional Commission on Homelessness’ effort to impact chronic
homelessness. Finally, Cause for Hope provides relationship and
hope for people living on the margins, particularly those who are
struggling with active addiction and unrecognized or untreated
mental illness − both major contributing factors to homelessness.
CIT is a 10-part training program that cultivates basic human
values as skills for the purpose of increasing individual, social
and environmental flourishing. By covering a range of skills from
self-regulation and self-compassion to compassion for others
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