These are helpful websites that all chaplains, from CPE students to seasoned professionals, should know about.
Transforming Chaplaincy
Transforming Chaplaincy Website
Transforming Chaplaincy seeks to promote research literacy among spiritual care providers and offer evidence-based research for spiritual care. It began with a grant from the John Templeton Foundation and continues on as a partnership between the Rush University Medical Center, Brandeis University, and the Joint Research Council. The website offers networks to share information with chaplain colleagues, grant information, and research starters for chaplains, clinicians, and administrators. Two items of note are the chaplain leadership certificate and the summer research institute, both of which are ongoing programs of Transforming Chaplaincy.
Chaplaincy Innovation Lab
Chaplaincy Innovation Lab website
“The Chaplaincy Innovation Lab (CIL) launched in October 2018 to bring chaplains, theological educators, clinical educators and social scientists into conversation about the work of chaplaincy and spiritual care. As religious and spiritual life continues to change, the CIL sparks practical innovations that enable chaplains to nurture the spirits of those they serve and reduce human suffering.”
The Chaplaincy Innovation Lab website offers information about all different types of chaplaincy. They have ebooks and videos about the different career paths in chaplaincy. They also offer information about various educational opportunities for chaplains. The Lab was founded by Dr. Wendy Cadge with other researchers. Dr. Cadge was a principal investigator on the Transforming Chaplaincy grant mentioned above.
Department of Defense Endorsing Agent/Organizations List
This list of approved endorsement organizations is important not just for military chaplains, but also for chaplains wanting to become board certified. To be board certified through the Association of Professional Chaplains a chaplain must have an endorsement from this list.
Department of Defense Endorsing Agents/Organizations
Professional Chaplain Organizations
Websites for professional organizations for chaplains in North America:
Association of Professional Chaplains
Association of Catholic Chaplains
National Association of Jewish Chaplains
Canadian Association for Spiritual Care
Clinical Pastoral Education
Websites for Clinical Pastoral Education:
Association for Clinical Pastoral Education
College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy
Institute for Clinical Pastoral Training
Caleb is an ordained Baptist minister. He has been a healthcare chaplain for 13 years and has visited over 20,000 patients in the hospital over the last 7 years. He is in the process of board certification through the Association of Professional Chaplains. He is currently the senior chaplain responsible for the pastoral care department at two community hospitals in a larger health system.