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

• Psychological First Aid: Field Operations Guide for Community Religious Professionals

• Coronavirus Pandemic Resource
  • Webcast: Coronavirus Strategies for Spiritual Caregivers Dealing with the Chaos of Coronavirus and other Infectious Disease Threats
  • PowerPoint Presentation: Coronavirus: Strategies for Spiritual Caregivers Dealing with the Chaos of Coronavirus and other Infectious Disease Threats
  • Strategies for Spiritual Caregivers Dealing with the Chaos of Coronavirus and other Infectious Disease Threats

• Spiritual Care Resources for:
  • Chaplains
  • Nurses
  • Social Workers
  • Administrators

• Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling 2020 Article Focusing on SCA's use of Simulated Patient Exam: A New Paradigm for Testing Clinical Competence in Chaplaincy Certification.

• Documents related to the most comprehensive evidence-based Quality Indicators and Scope of Practice that demonstrate the quality and practice of spiritual care.
  • Quality Indicators: What Is Quality Spiritual Care in Health Care and How Do You Measure It?
  • Guidance on Quality Indicators
  • Scope of Practice
• 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

• Chaplaincy Research Handbook
• Handbook of Patient’s Spiritual and Cultural Values for Health Care Professionals
• Literature Review - Testing the Efficacy of Chaplaincy Care

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 
• Advocacy Visits on Capitol Hill
• Letter to Senate Finance Committee re: CHRONIC Care Act

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