MCA Websites

Note--add China Member Care and Arabic Member Care and Indonesia Member Care

In addition to this website (the main MCA website):

Global Mental Health-Map. This site lists key resources for Global Mental Health (GMH). It helps to provide a “global map for a global movement” in order to better understand and navigate the GMH domain and find relevant ways for connecting and contributing. The site is part of an ongoing collaborative project to research, compile, and share GMH materials.  We have published 10 overview articles on GMH (2011-2021). Links to these articles are on the GMH-Map website and also in the GMH-Map section of this MCA website.

Global Integrity Day--9 June. Four Features
Feature 1. Global Integrity Day (GID) is a positive day, launched on 9 June 2020, to reflect, teach, and collaborate on ways to integrate integrity in all we do throughout the entire year. Feature 2. GID is a strategic day to promote a) cultivating lifestyles, cultures, and systems of integrity from the individual through the international levels; b) joining together to understand and address the causes and consequences of corruption in its many forms; and c) working towards just and equitable societies marked with wellbeing for all people and for the planet. Feature 3. GID is a solemn day to consider our ways: if we are lying and/or stealing in any way big or small, then we need to stop it. If we need to right a wrong we have done, then do so. If we need to prudently confront wrongdoing, preferably in solidarity with colleagues for mutual support and greater impact, then do so. Feature 4. GID is a companion day to complement UN International Anti-Corruption Day, 9 December (and vice versa). Both Days are practical rallying points, six months apart, for fostering common ground, organizing events, sharing initiatives, affirming anti-corruption workers, and involving the public. 

Global MCA. This is the site for the Global Member Care book series, with previews, updates, endorsements, podcasts etc. The series, like our MCA website, is designed to further equip the diversity of people with member care responsibility around the world, including leaders, colleagues, professional caregivers, trainers, sending groups, and academic institutions. Underlying all three volumes is the commitment to grow deeply and go broadly as we provide quality services within the mission/aid community and in light of the major challenges affecting the world.

Volume One: The Pearls and Perils of Good Practice (2011)
Volume Two: Crossing Sectors for Good Practice (2013)
Volume Three: Stories and Strategies for Staying the Course (2024) 

CORE Member Care: Reflections and Resources for Good Practice. We started this weblog in 2006-current in 2025 (325+ entries). The thoughts and tools are designed to explore the many facets and current issues of member care. The weblog also endeavours to help us all look into our own hearts as we further develop our member care skills. Examples of previous topics: global integrity, global integrators, global integration, transparency, resiliency, culture/diversity in international health, safety/protection, and MC history. Click here for the complete Index. To be notified when there are new entries, go to the top of the blog and type your email into “Follow this Blog.”

Resources for Good Practice: Member Care Updates. Monthly updates with special resources to support those with member care responsibility. The Updates are designed to encourage us as learners-practitioners who cross cultures, disciplines, and sectors for good practice. The Updates began in 2009--current 2025 (190+ issues) and are archived on the main MCA website here: https://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=125. It is easy and free to sign up—click on this link to do so: http://eepurl.com/kcuon The archived versions since April 2012 also include a translation tool into 45+ languages.

Common Ground for the Common Good: Global Integration Updates. These monthly Updates are designed to help you connect and contribute with our globalizing world–global integration (GI). We encourage colleagues across sectors to consider what it means to be global integrators: global learners-practitioners who are committed to pursuing “common ground for the common good” with integrity. They are archived on this website here: https://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726  As of 2025 we are taking a break from doing these Updates--there are 102 issues. Noe that the first weblog entries on GI began in July 2011 on our CORE Member Care blog site.

Reality DOSE: Promoting Health in Mission/Aid Settings. This site offers a practical and thought-provoking article in 12 languages. It explores the crucial topic of personal/systemic health and dysfunction. Additional links connect you with resources for good practice, business ethics, financial stewardship, and accountability.

**Giants, Foxes, Wolves, and Flies: Managing Life’s Meta-4s. This special web page includes an article about four common areas of struggle and growth for mission/aid personnel (in five languages, on the Reality DOSE website).

Member Caravan: Traveling Together as Learners-Practitioners. This site is oriented for those who are interested/involved in member care and international work in the health care fields, especially graduate students. The materials were uploaded primarily between 2009-2014 and include interviews, historical quotes on the integration of mental health and missions; articles, training resources, links to other materials, etc. As of 2014 most of the updates and information are now put on the main MCA website. Note: Caravan is also the name of a group of graduate students, professors, and health care people in the Southern California area. They met intermittently over a 10 year period to share their personal experiences, discuss mental health issues related to missions and international work, obtain training from experts in the field, and network with other students and professionals. The Caravan group is currently inactive.