Crossroads Chaplaincy
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Program Overview

   Crossroads School of Chaplaincy is dedicated to offering a standardized and evidence-based CPE training program to chaplains and spiritual care providers. We will prepare you to be a spiritual care provider in healthcare, prisons, military, police, fire, marketplace and religious organizations.

​  We run 4 units per year, each unit is 12 weeks long.

  Currently there is class once per week for 2.5 - 3 hours.
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Each unit requires 400 hours which include:
  • Didactic Study and Class time (instructor-led onsite and/or interactive distance learning)
  • Clinical (applied learning)
  • Customized Coaching
  • Peer-to-Peer Projects and Assessments


Fees: Each Units costs between $1500 - $1800 (excludes annual membership fees)

Summarized course breakdown: (Subject to Change)

Unit 1
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  • Pastoral Care & Family Systems
  • Ministering to Residents
  • Active Listening
  • Contemporary Social Issues
  • Cross Cultural Ministries
  • Introduction to Pastoral Care
  • Spiritual Formation
  • Death, Loss & Grief
  • Spiritual Well-being & Depression
  • Stages of Grief
  • Types of Grief & Loss
  • Complicated Grief & Depression

Unit 2
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  • Boundaries for Effective Ministry
  • Avoiding Compassion Fatigue
  • Crisis Counseling, Intervention from a Biblical Perspective
  • Stress & Trauma
  • Terminal Issues, Emotional Experiences of the Dying, After Death
  • When Dying is living, Contradictions and Letting Go
  • Medical Approach to Prayer & Healing
  • Prayer as Therapy
  • Medical Ethics and Advance Directives
  • Establishing the Chaplain’s office
  • Slow Me Down Lord
  • Ministry Partners/“Friend Raining”

Unit 3

  • Supporting the Interdisciplinary Team
  • How to be the Agent of Peace during Chaos
  • Meaningful Rituals for Staff
  • The need for Staff Care Part 1 including Emotional Resilience & Staff Well-Being
  • The need for Staff Care Part 2 including Spiritual Distress & Compassion Satisfaction
  • Critical Incident Stress Debriefing
  • Advance Directives & Planning
  • Documents including Wills, Power of Attorney, Physician orders etc
  • Values and Wishes Conversations
  • Communication the ‘Who” &“What”  of Healthcare Values & Wishes
  • Communication the ‘How” of Healthcare Values & Wishes
  • Completing Healthcare Advance Directives

Unit 4

  • HIPAA Compliance
  • Privacy Rights & HIPAA Myths
  • How HIPAA Impacts Chaplains
  • Christian & Sacramental Ministry to the Elderly
  • Spiritual assessment & Documentation
  • History of Spiritual Assessment in Chaplaincy
  • Assessing Assessment Formats
  • Contemporary Assessment Models Part 1
  • Contemporary Assessment Models Part 2
  • Peery’s Approach
  • Overview of Chaplaincy Documentations
  • Whole Person Spiritual Care

P.O Box 62697 | Colorado Springs, CO 80902
Phone | (719)-635-5767
Email | kay@crossroadsusa.org
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