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.
There’s a friendly place with good teaching in a cool neighborhood offering a great experience for families impacted by disability with free respite care in the middle of a city with millions of people and they still have space? I don’t get it.
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Posted in Key Ministry, Resources, Stories
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Tagged Chicago, Christian Fellowship Church, Disability Ministry, Down Syndrome, Gillian Marchenko, respite care, Roscoe Village, Sergei Marchenko, Special Needs Ministry, The King's Table
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In examining and interpreting the study for our readers, I thought it would be most helpful going forward to put on my “old hat” as a reviewer and offer insight into how the folks who sit where I sat might think about the Focus/Lifeway study…
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Posted in Controversies, Families, Key Ministry, Mental Health
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Tagged church, critical analysis, Focus on the Family, Key Ministry, Lifeway Research, mental illness, peer review, research, Stephen Grcevich MD
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I do not even know how to approach joining a church now since it is so evident that no one at my old church in my old city wants anything to do with me. For all the talk on forgiveness, I am apparently too eccentric and egocentric to be forgiven and to be accepted. Moreover, if not even loving Christians can put up with me, the rest of the world seems scary. Continue reading →
Melissa Edge shares an incredible story of how God was unmistakably at work through her suffering in the aftermath of losing her husband. What do we do with our lives In the Meantime as we’re experiencing grief.
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Here’s my most significant criticism of this survey…they didn’t ask the right questions! Continue reading →
Posted in Controversies, Key Ministry, Mental Health
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Tagged Christian faith, Ed Stetzer, Focus on the Family, Key Ministry, Lifeway Research, mental illness, pastors, research, Stephen Grcevich MD, stigma, survey
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Reflecting back, I’m so thankful for my daughter’s kind heart and gracious outreach. Hannah’s mom told me that day not many kids reach out to her because she has disabilities. In that moment, I realized how simple, yet profound friendship can be in the life of a child. It can brighten one’s day, put a smile on one’s face and in the best of ways it can soften shame, alleviate stigma and lift spirits. Continue reading →
Overwhelmed by all the information coming at you? In this week’s Weekly Reader, I’ll share some features that caught my eye over the last week from Ellen Stumbo, Jeff Davidson and Barb Dittrich. Continue reading →
Posted in Key Ministry, Resources
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Tagged Adrian Peterson, Barb Dittrich, Colleen Swindoll-Thompson, corporal punishment, Dr. Cara Daily, Ellen Stumbo, Jeff Davidson, Jolene Philo, Key Ministry, My Weekly Reader, Stephen Grcevich MD, The Front Door online church
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Do we as a Christian community want to allow the issue of whether corporal punishment is required by Scripture to define us when the potential exists for the issue to become a stumbling block to others who might be considering the claims of Christ? Continue reading →
Posted in Controversies, Hidden Disabilities, Key Ministry
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Tagged Adrian Peterson, child abuse, Christian parenting, CNN, corporal punishment, Disability, Disability Ministry, Key Ministry, Matthew Paul Turner, schools, spanking, Special Needs Ministry, The false gospel of spanking
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If we’re establishing a standard that parents implicated in situations like the Peterson case are going to be deprived of their livelihoods and due process rights, society will be creating a tremendous disincentive for those experiencing domestic violence to seek professional (or in many locations, spiritual) help, because all states have mandatory reporting requirements for professionals, and in 27 states, the legal mandate to report extends to clergy. Continue reading →
Posted in Controversies, Families, Key Ministry, PTSD
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Tagged Adrian Peterson, Charles Barkley, child endangerment, Christian parenting, corporal punishment, physical abuse, Stephen Grcevich MD, trauma, whoopings
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Dr. Barkley’s theories suggest that ADHD is a disorder not only of attention, but of executive functioning as well. Executive functioning describes a set of cognitive abilities involved in controlling and regulating other abilities and behaviors. Such functions are necessary in initiating goal-directed behavior, suppressing impulses arising from lower brain centers, and planning future behavior.
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Posted in ADHD, Hidden Disabilities, Key Ministry, Mental Health
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Tagged ADHD, children's ministry, church, Disability Ministry, executive functioning, Inclusion, Key Ministry, Russell Barkley Ph.D., Special Needs Ministry, Stephen Grcevich MD, William Hathaway Ph.D., youth ministry
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