Projects
The Chaplaincy Innovation Lab networks researchers, chaplains and educators to better prepare spiritual caregivers to work in today’s changing religious landscape.
Trauma Chaplaincy
North American religious leaders are responding to collective trauma on a weekly basis. Whether mobilizing to provide basic support services to community members in the aftermath of a hurricane or tailoring a sermon for the Sunday after a mass shooting ...
Trans Spiritual Care Initiative
TSCI trains chaplains and clergy to advocate for and with transgender patients and interrupt discrimination against transgender people in healthcare settings and faith communities.
Spiritual Generalists
This project expands initiated by the Boston Children’s Hospital’s IPEP to train others in providing spiritual generalist care.
Spiritual Care for Elders
Colleagues are piloting a series of projects at Hebrew SeniorLife in Boston about spiritual care for elders living in retirement and nursing facilities.
Chaplaincy Disparities
Religion and spirituality are well-known social determinants of public health and could play a major role in many patients’ lives.
Spiritual Care and End-of-Life in ICU
Families whose loved one with an advanced illness is admitted to an ICU often are unprepared to make difficult decisions about goals of care and, as a result, request or accept futile, life-prolonging care.
SPACES
Dr. Jenny Palmer will lead semi-structured qualitative interviews with (1) dyads of family care partners and persons with dementia (when able to participate) to explore the role of spirituality in illness experiences and palliative care needs, and ...
Seaport Chaplaincy
This project asks how congregations are connected to deep-water ocean ports in the United States and Canada through the work of port chaplains.
San Francisco Night Ministry
The Night Ministry provides crisis intervention, counseling and referral services every night of the year. Since 1964, we haven’t missed one night in 50 years.
Religion at Sea
This project explores the religious and spiritual needs of multinational seafarers working onboard cargo ships.