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”

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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