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About Dr. G

Dr. Stephen Grcevich serves as President and Founder of Key Ministry, a non-profit organization providing free training, consultation, resources and support to help churches serve families of children with disabilities. Dr. Grcevich is a graduate of Northeastern Ohio Medical University (NEOMED), trained in General Psychiatry at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at University Hospitals of Cleveland/Case Western Reserve University. He is a faculty member in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at two medical schools, leads a group practice in suburban Cleveland (Family Center by the Falls), and continues to be involved in research evaluating the safety and effectiveness of medications prescribed to children for ADHD, anxiety and depression. He is a past recipient of the Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). Dr. Grcevich was recently recognized by Sharecare as one of the top ten online influencers in children’s mental health. His blog for Key Ministry, www.church4everychild.org was ranked fourth among the top 100 children's ministry blogs in 2015 by Ministry to Children.

Mental Health, Medicine and Ministry – October 17, 2023

Posted on October 17, 2023 by Dr. G

Depression rates among teens rose sharply during COVID – and the majority of teens with depression received no treatment Continue reading →

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Mental Health, Medicine and Ministry – October 10, 2023

Posted on October 10, 2023 by Dr. G

Romantic chatbots have been developed that offer suggestive selfies, sexually explicit (and apparently, realistic) conversations, and the ability to design a virtual girlfriend’s personality who is judgment-free, encourages users to spend more time with male friends and laughs at all of the user’s jokes. What will the impact be on our ability to engage in authentic relationships with the potential of leading to marriage? Or the impacts upon self-image for women who already fail to live up to the images in brains scarred by pornography? Continue reading →

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Call for Speakers for Disability and the Church 2024

Posted on October 3, 2023 by Dr. G

The opportunity to apply to speak is open to any and all mature Christians with important or innovative thoughts or ideas to help grow or advance the disability ministry movement. Continue reading →

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Mental Health, Medicine and Ministry – September 19, 2023

Posted on September 19, 2023 by Dr. G

Would your church be prepared to welcome a family that needed to flee their home with little notice for refusing to “affirm” their child’s gender identity? Continue reading →

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Mental Health, Medicine and Ministry, September 5, 2023

Posted on September 5, 2023 by Dr. G

Physicians from a pagan culture 400 years before the birth of Christ had more respect for life than the folks in charge of the medical profession today. Continue reading →

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Mental Health, Ministry and the Church – August 27, 2023

Posted on August 28, 2023 by Dr. G

Mental Health, Medicine and Ministry is a pilot of a new product from Key Ministry. Our intent is to create a home for curated news and commentary on topics related to mental health, medicine and ministry for faithful Christians — especially those serving in positions of leadership in the church from the physician and child psychiatrist who founded Key Ministry. Continue reading →

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Courage in Pursuit of Our Callings

Posted on May 8, 2023 by Dr. G

I’d like to say a few things publicly that need to be said by someone in my profession with my background and experience. Somebody needs to go first. My hope is it will be easier for others to speak if they know they’re not alone. Continue reading →

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The church’s undiscovered treasure

Posted on February 21, 2022 by Dr. G

When I see how many gifted and talented people are out there applying to speak at our conference who are doing great work our team hadn’t been aware of – exercising gifts and talents with the potential to greatly benefit the larger disability ministry movement I think that we’ve stumbled upon undiscovered treasure. And I can’t help but wonder how much undiscovered treasure the “Church” misses out upon when we fail to mine the gifts given to Christians called to vocations that don’t involve seminary degrees or serving on a church payroll. Continue reading →

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Encouraging Signs Regarding Mental Health and the Church

Posted on May 17, 2021 by Dr. G

We’d love to have you join us this weekend for the Thrive and Cultivate Summit. The very presence of events such as this one is reason to be hopeful that the church is starting to “get it” when it comes to mental health. Continue reading →

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Medical Mistrust in the Evangelical Community

Posted on April 12, 2021 by Dr. G

Expressions of medical mistrust in the evangelical community appear very similar to those observed in other minority groups. Continue reading →

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