We are pleased to make available the following important research and educational content for your professional use:

• Documents related to the most comprehensive evidence-based Quality Indicators and Scope of Practice that demonstrate the quality and practice of spiritual care. The Quality Indicators and Scope of Practice were convened by two international, multidisciplinary panels of experts in the field that was convened by HealthCare Chaplaincy Network (HCCN):
  • What Is Quality Spiritual Care in Health Care and How Do You Measure It? (Statement released 2/17/16)
  • Guidance on Quality Indicators
  • Scope of Practice(Statement released 3/16/16)

• Infographics that present the role and value of spiritual care and professional chaplaincy:
  • Professional Chaplaincy: The Core of Spiritual Care
  • The Role of Professional Chaplains in Whole Person Care
  • The Utilization and Efficacy of Professional Chaplaincy
  • Palliative Care Chaplaincy Competencies

• Highlights from the annual Caring for the Human Spirit^® conferences:
  • 2017
  • 2016
  • 2015
  • 2014

• Chaplaincy Research Handbook
• Literature Review - Testing the Efficacy of Chaplaincy Care

• White Papers
  • Time to Move Forward: Creating a New Model of Spiritual Care to Enhance the Delivery of Outcomes
  • Spiritual Care: What It Means, Why It Matters in Health Care
  • Spiritual Care and Nursing: A Nurse's Contribution and Practice
  • Spiritual Care and Physicians: Understanding Spirituality in Medical Practice

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)

For far too long, chaplaincy has been a fragmented and divided field that has not spoken up for itself.

If we do not speak up, professional chaplaincy will be marginalized.

If we do not speak up, the next generation of chaplains will suffer.

If we do not speak up, people in spiritual distress will not receive the spiritual care that they desire.

That must change!

ADVOCACY UPDATES

• Tell Congress That 'Spiritual Care Matters'
  • Call to Action
  • Petition 
• February 1, 2017 -- Advocacy Visits on Capitol Hill
• December 21, 2016 -- Letter to Senate Finance Committee re: CHRONIC Care Act

Watch video: Rev. Eric J. Hall, SCA's president and CEO, on advocacy