University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health (UM UCH) has established a Clinical Pastoral Education Program in collaboration with the Institute for Clinical Pastoral Training (ICPT). Rev. Dr. Allen ...

Animal chaplain training programs are reporting increased enrollment year over year, as well as a growing recognition that the work they do is no joke. “This is beyond animal blessings and pet ...

PORTLAND, Ore. – Wedged into a recliner in the corner of her assisted living apartment in Portland, Skylar Freimann, who has a terminal heart condition and pulmonary illness, anxiously eyed her newly ...

The Ruderman Family Foundation and the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab (CIL) at Brandeis University have announced a groundbreaking new program that will offer mental health training to spiritual care ...

A new program by the Department of Public Safety aims to put accredited chaplains at the disposal of law enforcement agencies across Arkansas, starting with a crop of 86 chaplains who completed ...

(RNS) — Sarah Bowen says she’s been doing the work of an animal chaplain since she was 6 years old. Raised in the Midwest as a Presbyterian preacher’s kid, she was often hauled to hospice facilities ...