Transforming Chaplaincy

Transforming Chaplaincy's mission is to promote evidence-based spiritual care and integrate research into professional practice and education by fostering a culture of inquiry. We envision a future when chaplaincy is formed, informed, and transformed by evidence-based practice.

By integrating contemporary scholarship, chaplains can provide better care, educators can prepare chaplains to be more effective in their work, and healthcare administrators can drive effective institutional change.

Advancing research to improve spiritual care

Transforming Chaplaincy facilitates the following nine research networks that bring together nearly 2,000 members seeking to advance spiritual care in the following broad areas:
Chaplaincy Functions
Chronic Illness/Disease
Outpatient
Hospice and Palliative Spiritual Care
Pediatrics
PTSD, Moral Injury and Spiritual Distress
Spiritual Care Management
Elder Care
Psychedelic Care

Providing top-notch training for new and tenured chaplains

An evidence-based approach to care requires adequate training. Transforming Chaplaincy offers specialized training programs, including the following:

A certificate program in Spiritual Care Management and Leadership that prepares current and future spiritual care managers to lead dynamic and effective spiritual care programs in a rapidly changing healthcare environment.
Online courses on research literacy for chaplains and CPE students
An in-person Chaplaincy Research Summer Institute to help chaplains develop research literacy, become familiar with chaplaincy research, and network with other colleagues engaged in research.
Resources for chaplains, educators, health care administrators, and researchers

Transforming Chaplaincy is based at Rush University College of Health Sciences.