The Spiritual Care Association (SCA) is the first multidisciplinary, international professional membership association for spiritual care providers that establishes evidence-based quality indicators, scope of practice, and a knowledge base for spiritual care.
With the following sub-categories:
Engages and offers education to multiple interest groups so more people in need receive effective spiritual care | |
Opens access to new evidence-based knowledge base: Online Learning Center | |
Provides valuable resources to contribute significantly to career development | |
Creates a powerful voice for spiritual care | |
Offers new paths for chaplaincy credentialing and board certification |
4-month program for current or aspiring directors of chaplaincy departments | |
Gain the knowledge and experiential tools to lead successful chaplaincy departments | |
Next cohort begins September 2019. Registration now open. | |
Successful candidates will receive the Chaplaincy Management Certificate |
As the Spiritual Care Association continues to grow and expand, we continue to offer our members with highly-specialized services tailored to their particular industry. Through the SCA Divisions, we are able to provide our members a platform to network among themselves and access their specialized member benefits.
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) |
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Sign Petition: Tell Congress That 'Spiritual Care Matters' |
Credentialed Chaplain: Anyone currently working as a chaplain but is not board certified and meets SCA’s requirements merits the title of Credentialed Chaplain (CC) | |
Board Certified Chaplain: SCA offers two paths to Board Certification | |
Advanced Board Certified Chaplain: The APBCC represents a significantly higher bar than any other BCC process |