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- Addiction Counseling Licensing and Certification: Understanding Your Career Path
- Addiction Counseling Licensing and Certification: Understanding Your Career Path
- Alumni Story: Allen Pickett: God Opens Doors Through City Vision Education
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- Alumni Story: Bennie Caswell: From Addict to Counselor
- Alumni Story: Brian Moomey: Restoring Alcoholics to Freedom
- Alumni Story: Brian Ostertag: From Homeless to Helper
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- Alumni Story: Dale Hartman: From Prison to Mission Chaplain
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- Alumni Story: Eric (Turbo) Qualls
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- Alumni Story: Jan Lagan: Building a New Mission on City Vision University Principles
- Alumni Story: Jeff Cook
- Alumni Story: Jonathan Musgrove: Hands-On Training Was ‘Essential’
- Alumni Story: Linda Lacy
- Alumni Story: Michelle Porter
- Alumni Story: Onita Yost
- Alumni Story: Rebecca Cochrane
- Alumni Story: Sarah Park: Transformed by Urban Ministry
- Alumni Story: Sharon Lockwood
- Alumni Story: Shawna Fitz: Grateful for City Vision’ Real-Life Experiences
- Alumni Story: Thomas Nicholson: Career Changer
- Becoming a Learning Organization Without Ministry Mission Drift
- Brainstorming and Using AI for Research Planning and Domain Mapping
- Building a Vibrant Culture to Navigate Organizational Transitions
- Checklist and Plan to Operationalize Values and Avoid Mission Drift
- Christian Approaches to Counseling and Life Transformation: From Ministry Values to Program Design
- Christian Perspectives on Research Methods and Epistemology
- City Vision University’s Innovation and Culture-Making Strategy: A Case Study
- City Vision’s Internship, Practicum, and Job Search Course Sequence
- Communities of Practice and Developing an Interpersonal Research Plan
- Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, Secondary Trauma and Self-Care in Addiction Counseling
- Conducting Interpersonal Research and Developing Innovation Networks
- Counseling Integration Model and Christian Worldview
- Developing a Degree Plan and Career Foundation in Addiction Counseling
- Developing a Plan to Operationalize Values and Avoid Mission Drift
- Developing Goals for Your Doctoral Program
- Doctor of Organizational Leadership and Innovation: Nine Doctoral Project Types
- Doctor of Organizational Leadership and Innovation: Nine Doctoral Project Types
- Drug and Alcohol Abuse Statistics and Facts
- Epistemology and Evidence-Based Practice in Christian Ministry
- Expectations and Module Schedule for Doctoral Courses at City Vision
- Faculty Reflections on City Vision University
- Faculty Story: Jim Harriger
- Faculty Story: Perry Jones
- Faculty Story: Steve Brubaker
- Finding a Practicum Site or Supervision Site in Addiction Counseling
- Five Approaches to Counseling and Christianity: A Practical Guide
- Food and Nutrition: A Practical Plan for Holistic Personal Health and Spirituality
- Friends, Body Composition and Weight Management: A Holistic Approach to Personal Health and Spirituality
- Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset: Turning Challenges into Opportunities to Learn
- Holistic Personal Health and Spirituality: A Course Overview for Lasting Change
- How City Vision Helps Ministries Operationalize Values and Avoid Mission Drift
- How Major Research Projects Work in City Vision’s Doctoral Courses
- How to Approach Learning in Project-Based Courses at City Vision
- How to Avoid Secularization and Increase Organizational Health for Christian Ministries
- How to Do Effective Christian Integration in Addiction Counseling and Recovery
- How to Improve Your AI Prompt Engineering for Research
- How Worldview and Epistemology Frame Social Problems and Solutions
- Individual and Organizational Innovation Strategies That Last
- Innovation, Social Problems, and Social Movements: How Healthy Movements Grow and Adapt
- Intern Story: Jonathan Musgrove – Hands-On Training Was “Essential”
- Intern Story: Lynne Free
- Intern Story: Michelle Smith: Internship Was ‘Amazing’
- Intern Story: Tony Chung: City Vision University’s First Intern
- Introduction to Christian Addiction Counseling: Course Overview and Career Pathways
- Iterative Research and Distribution Using NotebookLM, Substack and YouTube
- Levels of Explanation and Christian Counselors in Secular Contexts
- Licensing and Certification for Addiction Counseling: SAMHSA TAP 21 Compared With LPCs and CACREP
- Mapping Your Need and Your Organization’s Need for Innovation and Learning
- Modeling Organizational Systems for Nonprofits and Ministries
- Nutrigenomics: An Introduction to How Food and Genes Interact
- ORG700: Doctoral Orientation and Research Technologies Course Overview
- ORG701 Research Methods for Scholar Practitioners: Course Overview
- ORG702: Building Innovation Networks, Thought Leadership, and Movements
- ORG710: Systems Thinking, Worldviews, and Social Change
- Partner Intern Story: Kim Thornton: Salvation Army Article
- Partner Story: Ed Barber
- Partner Story: Gail Aho
- Partner Story: Josh Callahan: City Vision Ministry Success Story
- Partner Story: Lisa Cooper: City Vision Ministry Success Story
- Partner Story: Michelle Porter: City Vision Ministry Success Story
- Partner Story: Michelle Porter: Running a Mission with City Vision Graduates
- Partner Story: Tay Henderson
- Reconstructing a Christian Worldview for Secular and Christian Audiences
- Setting Up and Using AI Tools in City Vision’s Doctoral Program
- Social Support & Wellness: Why Connection Belongs in Our Health Goals
- Staff/Alumni Story: Nancy Young: Counseling People from a Christian Perspective
- Student Story: Phyllis Sheets
- Student Story: Rick Rutter
- Student Story: Ryan Bobbett
- Student Story: Sarah Stacey
- Student Story: Tamiko Cuellar: Business and Ministry Minded
- Student Story: Walt LaCouter
- Sweet Death: How Sugar Is Making Us Sick
- System Dynamics of Addiction: Why Intuitive Drug Policies Fail
- Systems Thinking for Nonprofit and Ministry Programs
- Systems Thinking, Worldviews and Social Change: A Guide to ORG710
- Systems Thinking, Worldviews, and Social Change
- TechMission History and Testimony of Andrew Sears
- Using AI in Action Research for Systems Thinking and Worldview Analysis: A Case Study in Addiction
- Using Citation Managers, Library Resources, and Research Tools at City Vision University
- Using Systems Thinking, Worldview Analysis and AI to Address Social Problems
- What’s Unique About City Vision’s Doctor of Organizational Leadership and Innovation Program?
- Why History and Tradition Are Important to Ministries
- Why You Can’t Outrun a Bad Diet: Is Fitness Really 80% Diet and 20% Workout?
- Wounded Healers: A Holistic Christian Recovery Plan That Expands Your Capacity to Heal
- Writing Academic Literature Reviews for a Practical Doctoral Project
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Courses
- ADC101: Introduction to Christian Addiction Counseling (take early in program)
- ADC201: Spirituality & Addiction
- ADC202: Family Issues & Recovery
- ADC301: Counseling in Urban & Multicultural Environments
- ADC302: Case Management
- ADC304: Introduction to Psychopharmacology of Addiction
- ADC305: Sexual Issues in Addiction
- ADC306: Recovery Coaching & Peer Support Specialist
- ADC307: Technology, Life Balance & Behavioral Addictions
- ADC401: Managing Residential Recovery Programs
- ADC402: Counseling Alcoholics
- ADC403: Addiction Counseling Assessment & Treatment Planning
- ADC404: Mental Illness, Addiction & Co-occurring Disorders
- ADC405: Group Counseling Practices
- ADC406: Addiction Counseling Certification Preparation
- ADC407: Trauma and Recovery
- ADC420: Addiction Counseling Practicum
- ADC431: Fundamentals of Addiction Counseling (undergrad section of graduate course)
- ADC432: Psychopharmacology of Addiction (undergrad section of graduate course)
- ADC433: Psychopathology, Co-Occurring Disorders and Addiction (undergrad section of a graduate course)
- ADC434: Family Counseling and Addiction (undergrad section of graduate course)
- ADC435: Trauma and Crisis Counseling (undergrad section of graduate course)
- ADC437: Multicultural Counseling (undergrad section of graduate course)
- ADC438: Group Counseling (undergrad section of graduate course)
- ADC439: Counseling Skills and Techniques (undergrad section of graduate course)
- ADC440: Christian Approaches to Counseling and Life Transformation (undergrad section of graduate course)
- ADC441: Ethical & Legal Issues in Counseling (undergrad section of graduate course)
- ADC442: Advanced Addiction Counseling Certification Preparation (undergrad section of graduate course)
- ADC501: Fundamentals of Addiction Counseling
- ADC503: Ethical & Legal Issues in Counseling
- ADC504: Multicultural Counseling
- ADC505: Counseling Skills and Techniques
- ADC506: Christian Approaches to Counseling and Life Transformation
- ADC510: Group Counseling
- ADC511: Clinical Diagnosis & Treatment Planning
- ADC512: Family Counseling and Addiction
- ADC513: Psychopathology, Co-Occurring Disorders and Addiction
- ADC514: Psychopharmacology of Addiction
- ADC520: Trauma and Crisis Counseling
- ADC521: Technology, Life Balance & Behavioral Addictions
- ADC540: Advanced Addiction Counseling Certification Preparation
- ADC550: Counseling Practicum
- ADC701: Christian Approaches to Counseling and Life Transformation
- ADC702: Psychopharmacology of Addiction
- ADC703: Trauma and Crisis Counseling
- ADC704: Psychopathology, Co-Occurring Disorders, and Addiction
- BUS102: Business Communications
- BUS201: Introduction to Accounting
- BUS202: Introduction to Management and Leadership
- BUS204: Principles of Business
- BUS301: Introduction to Entrepreneurship
- BUS302: Retail Management
- BUS303: Food Service Management
- BUS304: Thrift Store Management
- BUS305: Facilities Management
- BUS401: Marketing for Nonprofits and Businesses (undergrad section of graduate course)
- BUS402: Project Management (undergrad section of graduate course)
- BUS601: Marketing for Nonprofits and Businesses
- BUS602: Project Management
- ENG101: English Composition
- GEN103: Personal Finance (using Financial Peace)
- GEN110: Holistic Personal Health and Spirituality
- MIN101: Vocation, Calling & Purpose of Work
- MIN104: Wounded Healers: Holistic Addiction Recovery & Self-Care
- MIN201: Old Testament Foundations
- MIN202: New Testament Foundations
- MIN203: Urban Youth Ministry
- MIN205/BUS203: Customer Service, Radical Hospitality & Trauma Informed Ministry
- MIN206: Emotional Intelligence in Ministry & Management
- MIN310: Chaplaincy
- MIN411: New Testament Survey (undergraduate section of graduate course)
- MIN601: Vocation, Calling & Purpose of Work
- MIN606: New Testament Survey
- ORG101: Introduction to Nonprofit & Ministry Management (take early in program)
- ORG301: Nonprofit Human Resources
- ORG302: Social Entrepreneurship
- ORG303: Cross-Cultural Management & Ministry
- ORG350: Mentored Ministry & Leadership
- ORG401: Nonprofit Financial Accounting
- ORG402: Nonprofit Managerial Accounting
- ORG403: Nonprofit Fundraising
- ORG405: Volunteer Management
- ORG430: Organizational Behavior: Developing Healthy Organizations (undergrad section of graduate course)
- ORG431: Leadership in Diverse and Under-Resourced Communities
- ORG432: Nonprofit Educational Program Design (undergrad section of graduate course)
- ORG433: Grant Writing (undergraduate section of graduate course)
- ORG435: Nonprofit Financial Management (undergrad section of graduate course)
- ORG436: Nonprofit Executive Leadership & Board Development (undergrad section of graduate course)
- ORG437: Nonprofit Program Planning and Evaluation
- ORG439: Major Gifts and Planned Giving (undergrad section of a graduate course)
- ORG440: Strategic Management (undergrad section of graduate course)
- ORG450: Independent Study
- ORG601: Cross-Cultural Management & Ministry
- ORG602: Social Entrepreneurship
- ORG603: Leadership in Diverse and Under-Resourced Communities
- ORG604: Nonprofit Fundraising
- ORG605: Organizational Behavior: Developing Healthy Organizations
- ORG606: Nonprofit Financial Management
- ORG607: Human Resources
- ORG610: Nonprofit Program Planning and Evaluation
- ORG611: Grant Writing
- ORG612: Nonprofit Executive Leadership & Board Development
- ORG614: Nonprofit Educational Program Design
- ORG616: Independent Study
- ORG617: Major Gifts and Planned Giving
- ORG620: Strategic Management Capstone (take late in program)
- ORG641/ADC641: Research Methods for Scholar Practitioners
- ORG642: Innovation Networks, Thought Leadership & Movement Building
- ORG643: System Thinking, Worldviews and Social Change
- ORG650: Mentored Ministry & Leadership
- ORG700: Doctoral Orientation & Research Technologies
- ORG701: Research Methods for Scholar Practitioners (take early)
- ORG702: Innovation Networks, Thought Leadership & Movement Building
- ORG703: Strategic Management
- ORG704: Social Entrepreneurship
- ORG710: System Thinking, Worldviews and Social Change
- ORG711: Organizational Behavior: Developing Healthy Organizations
- ORG712: Organizational Culture and Design
- ORG713: Change Management & Adaptive Leadership
- ORG714: Nonprofit Program Planning, Evaluation and Design
- ORG715: Nonprofit Educational Program Design
- ORG716: Leadership in Diverse and Under-Resourced Communities
- ORG720: Nonprofit Fundraising
- ORG721: Major Gifts and Planned Giving
- ORG722: Grant Writing
- ORG723: Nonprofit Executive Leadership & Board Development
- ORG730: Online Christian Higher Education in Under-Resourced Contexts
- ORG750: Mentored Ministry & Leadership
- ORG880: Independent Research
- ORG891: Doctoral Project Preparation and Proposal
- ORG892: Action Research Project Preparation
- ORG893: Action Research Project Presentation
- ORG894: Action Research Project Continuation
- PLA201: Prior Learning Assessment Portfolio Development
- PLA601: Prior Learning Assessment Portfolio Development
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