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| ACPE e-News
A publication of the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc. |
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| Executive Director |
A Message from Teresa Snorton on her election as
CME Bishop
 At the General Conference of the Christian Methodist Episcopal (CME) Church earlier this month, I was honored to be elected a Bishop in our denomination. This election was historic in that it was the first time a woman has been elected to the episcopal office in our 140 year history! This General Conference was also historic in its decision to make Clinical Pastoral Education a requirement for all ministers seeking full clergy membership in our denomination. While I am honored about my election, I am equally excited about the way the denomination is embracing CPE and establishing this kind of preparation for ministry as our standard. My assignment as bishop is to the newly formed 11th Episcopal District - which includes central and southern Africa. My duties will be to supervise the mission work being done by the church there with already established churches that have affiliated with our denomination in the past two years. I am realistic that these new duties will have some impact on my continuing work as your Executive Director. This assignment does not require me to be full-time nor in-residence in Africa, but does require two trips per year to the area, three meetings per year with the College of Bishops and typical denominational committee assignments. I am in close conversation with the ACPE Board through the President and the Personnel Committee in determining what actual adjustments will need to be made to my Executive Director duties as I take on this additional ministry. Know that I am committed to serving as your Executive Director and equally committed to addressing any concerns and impact that being a Bishop may have on the ACPE.
From ACPE President Sally Schwab
I celebrate with Teresa her election as bishop in the Christian Episcopal Church! I am engaged in conversation with Mark Jensen, chair of personnel and Ted Trout-Landen, chair-elect of personnel to work with Teresa to determine the current and future impact of her work as Bishop on the work of the ACPE. The emerging plan at this time is to direct the ACPE personnel committee to evaluate the current job description for the executive director, to evaluate the executive director's performance and to discern the impact of Teresa's work as Bishop on the ACPE including the operations of the National office. The personnel committee will make recommendations to the ACPE Board of Representatives in November at our meeting in Atlanta, GA. At the current time, Teresa continues her work as the Executive Director for the ACPE. She will be gone for 2.5 weeks in October, 2010 for her first trip to Africa. She intends to take vacation time for the trip and will negotiate work assignments with staff at the national office so that all functions will be managed effectively and efficiently.
From ACPE Personnel Committee Chair Mark Jensen
I join colleagues across ACPE in congratulating Teresa on this significant honor, and in congratulating the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church on their good judgment! It is an historic day for the CME Church and religious communities everywhere seeking to embody justice and inclusion, and it is an important time for ACPE. In dialogue with Teresa and at the direction of the Board, the Personnel Committee will soon begin a process of evaluating the Executive Director's job duties and ACPE's needs in light of Teresa's new responsibilities. Any recommendations will go to the Board for discussion and approval. |
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| Accreditation |
There seems to be a pervasive myth that, somehow, ACPE Standards and accreditation processes limit the creation of new CPE centers because of their hospital-centric bias. This article will discuss some interpretation of this dynamic and also invite feedback from you about specifics that you may have found within the Standards for reflection.
At a recent meeting of the Accreditation Commission, we reviewed some of the Standards for this very issue. We found really only one Standard that uses terms that brought some concern (Standard 304 identifies "patients" and "clinical records"), but other than that, the Commissioners quickly found ways to look at the Standards with different eyes that will allow creative centers to get accredited without changes in the Standards or accreditation processes.
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| Accreditation II |
Process for Attending to Centers' Self-Reports of Standards Non-Compliance
The Accreditation Commission has created a way to assist Centers when they discover that a Standard(s) is not being met. Centers may self-report non-compliance with Standards in order to bring themselves into compliance outside regular review cycles. Below is the process for Centers to use if they find themselves out of compliance with a particular Standard.
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Chaplaincy Certification Standards as a Curriculum Resource in Clinical Pastoral Education | By Beth Jackson-Jordan, BCC, ACPE Supervisor
and Karen Moore, BCC
Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) is a model of pastoral education focused on pastoral formation, pastoral reflection and pastoral competence. Board certification as a chaplain is a process of measuring competency using core standards considered to be essential for functioning as a professional chaplain. What do board certification competencies have to do with the action reflection process of CPE? Are board certification standards created to measure chaplain competency relevant for CPE participants who don't plan to become chaplains? These questions and others have been at the heart of the dialogue between pastoral care educators and professional chaplains regarding whether competencies for chaplaincy board certification should be addressed in CPE.
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| 2011 Annual Conference |
You are invited to submit a proposal for a workshop at the 2011 ACPE Annual Conference!  The theme of the conference is " Spiritual Care on the Threshold: Honoring our Ancestry, Creating our Future." How do we embrace our own ancestry and heritage while crossing the threshold of the future? How have you in your supervision or spiritual care practice created that bridge? It will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah on April 6-9, 2011. We hope that you will share your experience by leading a workshop which shares different ways you have honored your ancestry and created your future through your practice and in supervision. Please complete the application to be considered for a workshop slot at the 2011 Conference. Feel free to forward this message to others who might be interested in presenting. The deadline for submitting a proposal is July 31, 2010. We look forward to your willingness to present a workshop and participate in the 2011 conference! Please submit proposals to Gerald Jones or Rod Seeger, Education Committee Co-Chairs. |
| Vol 64, No 2 (2010) |
The Journal of Pastoral Care Publications Inc. has announced that the latest issue (Vol.64:2) of The Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling is now available for electronic access. You have the right of access by virtue of your membership in the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc. To access JPC&C, please go to the following URL: http://journals.sfu.ca/jpcp/index.php/jpcp
Then enter the following log in information:
Username: acpe
Password: supervisor
Once you log-in, please do NOT change the user name and password, this will disable access for all other ACPE users.
These steps will enable you to select a font size to read JPCC and to download/print any of its articles for personal use.
Copyright reminders from JPCP Inc.: It is an ethical violation to share with any other person the access information which has been provided to you. It is also an ethical/legal violation to make material from the journal available to other persons. If you wish to share an article with others, you must follow the copyright guidelines at the website of JPCP Inc. This is not intended to limit the ability of members of the professional associations which are sponsors of JPCP Inc. and of individual subscribers to make copies of individual articles (maximum of 6 copies) to share with colleagues or small groups of students. When this is done, information is to be provided with the article copies concerning how the recipients may subscribe to JPC&C.
Please note, also, that you will be able to access archived issues of JPC&C in perpetuity even if you cease being a member of a sponsoring professional association. Note, also, that if you cease being eligible to receive JPC&C through a sponsoring professional association, you can enter an individual subscriptions.
If you have any further questions regarding JPC&C, please contact the publisher, Journal of Pastoral Care Publications, Inc.
Thanks for the continuing interest in our work,
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| Reflective Practice: Formation and Supervision in Ministry | |
The journal Reflective Practice: Formation and Supervision in Ministry has a new website. Please update your browsers. Their new address is http://reflective-practice.org. |
| Circle of Life Award | |
 The Circle of Life Award: Celebrating Innovation in Palliative and End-of-Life Care is presented annually to honor organizations striving to improve the care provided to patients with life-threatening conditions or near the end of life. In 2011, up to three organizations will win Circle of Life Awards; additional organizations may receive Citations of Honor. Awards and citations will be presented at the American Hospital Association Health Forum Summit, July 17-19, 2011, in San Diego.
Applications are due August 9, 2010. More information on the award and previous recipients is available at http://www.aha.org/circleoflife. Please call the American Hospital Association Office of the Secretary at 312/422-2704 or email circleoflife@aha.org with questions about the award process or application. |
| Sacred Spaces: The E-Journal of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors (AAPC) | | The Editorial Board of Sacred Spaces: The E-Journal of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors is excited to make two announcements.
First, the publication of the journal's second issue is now available online. Click on the main page's Publications link and under the issue section click on Vol.2 Issue 1 to view the titles of the articles and the interview with Donald Capps. This journal is open to all.
Second, we are introducing a writer's award for best student article (This year's title of the award: Donald Capps Student Writer's Award). The winner will receive $250 and his/her article will be published in an upcoming issue in Sacred Spaces. The person submitting the article must be enrolled as a student at the time s/he submits the article. The articles will be judged on the following criteria:
- Integration of theory and practice
- Knowledge of the field and the issue
- Contribution to the field
- Clarity of argument
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APC Professional Chaplaincy Webinar Course | |
Introduction to Chaplaincy Research
presented by George Fitchett PhD BCC
and Patricia Murphy PhD BCC
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, IL
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| Letter to the Editor | A Response to the article, Student Records and the Annual Notice, by Karrie Oertli, Accreditation Commission Chair, published June 2010.
Karrie -
I appreciate the article you just published in the ACPE e-news. And how timely. I was struggling with my need to exercise my curmudgeonly privilege as a Supervisor Emeritus in response to some concerns that recently presented themselves to me. Your article gives me the opportunity to vent and ask you to consider following your excellent article with some specific guidelines, cautions and "no-noes" that may need to be broadcast. I recently received the file of a Candidate for Board Certification in the Association of Professional Chaplains. Two qualities of the Student and Supervisor Evaluations raised my concern. These are germane to the issues addressed in your article.
Click here to read the entire letter. |
 e-News A publication of the Foundation for Clinical Pastoral Education |
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| Friends of ACPE |
 The Foundation for CPE is identifying people and organizations that are familiar with ACPE and our mission to provide CPE and improve the quality of ministry and pastoral care offered by spiritual caregivers of all faiths. If you work at an ACPE Center or System, you recently received a letter from Janet Lutz, Foundation Annual Fund Chair. She asked you to introduce the Foundation for CPE to members of your Professional Advisory Group and to former CPE students. Art Schmidt, Foundation President, and Janet Lutz wrote the two letters to introduce the Foundation, its campaigns and funds.
What can you do?
- Share the Foundation introduction letters with PAG members and CPE alumnae.
- Send names and contact information of persons that you would like the Foundation to include in its annual mailing to glenda.shipley@foundationforcpe.org. This might be a nurse, social worker, doctor, a church or temple member, a friend or family member. What about the staff in your department? Pastoral colleagues in your community and at other health care facilities?
- Have a summer cookout and invite your friends and neighbors to learn about ACPE and the Foundation. The Foundation has talking points to help you with casual conversation about the Foundation and the Capital Campaign. You can have fun and express your pride in our ministry and CPE.
- Host a brown bag lunch in at your facility for local clergy, including healthcare chaplains. Introduce them to the Foundation for CPE, the Capital Campaign, other Foundation funds, and ACPE projects. Have a signup sheet for names, addresses and email.
- Make a pledge to the Annual Fund. There are ACPE Supervisors that make pledges to make contributions throughout the year. One Supervisor has donated $25 ten times a year since December 2007. Another Supervisor sends $50 a month to fulfill a multi-year pledge that will eventually total several thousand dollars. If 400 ACPE members gave $30 a month, the Foundation could include $144,000 of income in its operating budget.
Thank you for your ministry and leadership in CPE,
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