Statesville Record reports on CPE
Those who have completed CPE units or serve as educators are familiar with the process, but we are grateful to see the process explored in broader audiences. From Wayne Mogielnicki at Wake Forest Baptist Healthwire and Statesville Record:
CPE is the primary training method for hospital and hospice chaplains in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand but it also prepares people to work at rehabilitation and residential care facilities, crisis centers and shelters, schools and colleges, police and fire departments, emergency medical services and correctional institutions.
“We provide emotional and spiritual support during crises and a listening presence to people of all faiths and people of no faith,” said the Rev. Rosalind Bradley, a chaplain supervisor at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem and the admissions coordinator of its CPE program. “There are things you have to learn to be able to do that effectively.