Spiritual Care for People with Disabilities

This webinar will educate, empower and equip chaplains to provide spiritual care to people with disabilities (PWD) without inherent bias.

First, our guest, Rev. Dr. Jackee Jackson, will discuss how chaplains can acquire effective language to communicate with people with disabilities by using person and identity first language. In addition, chaplains will learn about what Rev. Dr. Jackson calls the “Ten Commandments of Disability and Sensitivity.”

Second, this webinar will help chaplains become empowered and see themselves akin to midwives in this area of spiritual care, offering their skilled, compassionate and supportive presence to PWD and their families.

Third, by equipping chaplains with language that removes attitudinal barriers that exist in society, the webinar will help transform the ways in which chaplains interact with PWD in their words and actions. Chaplains will learn the unique ways that language, communication and attitude matters when providing emotional and spiritual care to people with disabilities. We will be joined by:

Do you have resources or experience working with people with disabilities and want to share with the Lab community? Let us know! The Lab strives for a world in which everyone has access to high quality spiritual care, and those with disabilities are often overlooked even by spiritual care providers. Let us know how chaplains can serve this population better.