The Institute offers Resident, Extended, and Summer programs in Clinical Pastoral Education, a seven week Medical Grand Rounds for Clergy seminar, a monthly Ethics Journal Club and several Annual Conferences for clergy and other church workers.

For more information on Programs, please contact Rev. Ken Blank, Executive Director.

Left to Right: Mary Coffman, Connie McClendon, Barbara Stomprud, Gary Howell, Ken Blank - Executive Director, Darryl Tiller - Director of Training, Jim Dorough, Forest Wilkins, Carlos Woodard, Mary Stevens, Darron Johnson, Allen Gharet, and Sharon Spencer (outside of picture frame)

 

Summer 2005 CPE Students - Left to right: Brent Russell, Episcopalian; Kate Emig, Episcopalian; Bob Fitch, Episcopalian; Tony Oltmann, Presbyterian

CPE Students 2006

Summer Students 2006

Students 2007

 

This is a full-time program of 40+ hours per week. The Program begins in late August and continues until the end of the following August, providing four (4) units of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE).

Stipend: $28,500 per year

Tuition: $1,000 per year, deducted from the Stipend each pay period

EXTENDED PROGRAM

This is a part-time program beginning in March and September and continuing for six months, providing one unit of CPE. This group meets from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. each Monday. Each participant needs to complete an additional 8 to 10 hours per week of clinical practice at the placement site.

Tuition: Tuition is $250 per each unit, paid half at beginning of the unit and the other half after three months.

Honorarium: After completing the unit, we provide you with a $1,000 honorarium.

SUMMER PROGRAM

This is a full-time program of 40+ hours per week. The Program begins the first week of June and ends mid-August of each year.

Tuition: Tuition is often billed to the student's seminary or undergraduate college or university.

Honorarium: The student receives a $1,000 honorarium at the end of the Unit.

If you are an international applicant, you will have to obtain appropriate documentation from U.S. Immigration which usually implies a visa and a U.S. Social Security number. Therefore, international applicants should have such documentation approved at least six (6) months prior to the start of the program.

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REFERENCE MATERIALS (Click to Open):

(A) CPE STUDENT HANDBOOK

(B) LEVEL 1 CPE HANDBOOK

1) Introduction and The CPE Curriculum

2) 2005 Objectives and Outcomes of CPE

3) The Pastoral Visit

4) Pastoral Care in the Hospital

5) Hospitalization and Random Initial Visit

6) Difference between Social and Pastoral Visit

7) Crisis Theory

8) Crisis: The Experience of Finitude

9) Death and Anguish

10) Bereavement and Loss - Attachment

11) Bereavement and Loss - Creative Grief

12) Toward a Theology of Crisis Ministry

13) Interdisciplinary Team Work

14) Truth is Personal

15) Petty Tyrants

16) Resistance to Clinical Learning

17) Your Pastoral Care Profile

18) Weekly Progress Report

19) Final Evaluation