The Spiritual Care Association (SCA) is the first multidisciplinary, international professional membership association for spiritual care providers that establishes evidence-based quality indicators, scope of practice, and a knowledge base for spiritual care.
As the Spiritual Care Association continues to grow and expand, we continue to offer our members with highly-specialized services tailored to their particular industry. Through the SCA Divisions, we are able to provide our members a platform to network among themselves and access their specialized member benefits.
| Engages and offers education to multiple interest groups so more people in need receive effective spiritual care | |
| Opens access to new evidence-based knowledge base: Online Learning Center | |
| Provides valuable resources to contribute significantly to career development | |
| Creates a powerful voice for spiritual care | |
| Offers new paths for chaplaincy credentialing and board certification |
With the following sub-categories:
For Community Clergy and Religious Leaders
For Organizations and Institutions
The SCA University of Theology and Spirituality was created to help ministry professionals, chaplains, nurses, social workers, first responders, and others to advance their spiritual training and earn their degrees.
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), a division of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has for the first time, approved codes for chaplaincy and spiritual care.
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| Program for current or aspiring directors of chaplaincy departments | |
| Gain the knowledge and experiential tools to lead successful chaplaincy departments | |
| Self-guided. Learn at your own pace | |
| Successful candidates will receive the Chaplaincy Management Certificate |
| Credentialed Chaplain: Anyone currently working as a chaplain but is not board certified and meets SCA’s requirements merits the title of Credentialed Chaplain (CC) | |
| Board Certified Chaplain: SCA offers two paths to Board Certification | |
| Advanced Board Certified Chaplain: The APBCC represents a significantly higher bar than any other BCC process |
SCA is leading the grassroots, national and global, multidisciplinary advocacy effort that:
| Is uniting the voices of individual and organizational members to advance the integration of spiritual care in health care so that more people receive the help they need | |
| Empowers chaplains | |
| Gives chaplains a seat “at the table” when major decisions are being made about policy and reimbursement for inpatient, outpatient and home care | |
| Thanks chaplains and other involved members of the interdisciplinary health care team for their extraordinary work by creating and publicizing the new annual Spiritual Care Day (May 10) |
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| Sign Petition: Tell Congress That 'Spiritual Care Matters' |
