2025 Fall Symposium - Healthcare Chaplaincy – State of the Science - Staff Care, Mapping of Services, Screening and Assessment

Register by 10/27/2025

Earn 6 CE's (6-hours - Methodology 8 - Research)

Overview:

Originally presented by Transforming Chaplaincy at the 2025 APC Annual Conference, this popular event is now being offered online via Zoom as this year’s Fall Symposium.

Morning (Part 1): Using Emerging Evidence To Strengthen the Value Proposition for Spiritual Care

Objectives:

• To examine what the latest research about spiritual care interventions and outcomes means for chaplaincy practice and advocating for spiritual care.
• To engage chaplains and researchers to explore what the research means for spiritual care.
• To engage and network with leading Transforming Chaplaincy researchers and other chaplains committed to evidence-based spiritual care.

Description:

For a chaplain intervention to be claimed as best practice, the weight and specificity of the evidence needs to be examined. For chaplains to identify and implement practices associated with results within the literature, a critical examination of these data among colleagues needs to occur.

Please join Transforming Chaplaincy, chaplain researchers, and practicing chaplains for this examination. Together, with leading scholars in our field, we’ll explore current knowledge, emerging evidence and future directions. It will be a morning filled with expert presentations, panel conversations, and audience engagement to consider what evidence means for our practice.

Afternoon (Part 2): Innovations Transforming Spiritual Care

Objectives:

• To examine the latest research about spiritual care innovations with implications for chaplaincy practice.
• To engage chaplain clinically practicing chaplains and researchers to explore what this research means for spiritual care.
• To engage and network with leading Transforming Chaplaincy researchers and other chaplains committed to evidence-based spiritual care.

Description:

Chaplaincy practice depends on the creative and adaptive work of colleagues toward meeting the person-centered demands warranted by an ever-shifting health care environment. Innovation without evaluation, however, does not gain traction because “what goes unmeasured is not seen and what is not seen cannot be changed” (Sanders et al., 2022).

Join Transforming Chaplaincy, researchers, and practicing chaplains for a meaningful conversation concerning the innovations and outcomes of our spiritual care. It will be an afternoon filled with expert presentations, panel conversations, and audience engagement to consider what evidence means for our practice.

Presenters

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Pricing

$199 For Members ($229 after 10/12/2025)
$229 For Non-Members ($259 after 10/12/2025)

Schedule (all times listed are Central Time)

9:00 am – 9:15 am	Welcome, Introduction, and Agenda for the Day
9:15 am – 10:25 am	Staff Care
10:20 – 10:30 am	Break
10:30 am – 12:00 pm	Mapping Studies
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm – 2:20 pm	Screening
2:20 pm – 2:35 pm	Break
2:35 pm – 3:45 pm	Assessment
3:45 pm – 4:00 pm	Wrap Up

Recordings

The Symposium will be recorded and will be made available to registered participants approximately 3-4 weeks after the Symposium has concluded. Registered participants will receive instructions on how to access the recordings when those become available.

Confirmation

Registered participants will receive an e-mail confirmation upon completion of the online registration and payment process. Instructions for logging into the sessions will be e-mailed to all participants two business days before the event.

Cancellation Policy

The registration fee (minus a $50 non-refundable processing charge) will be refunded up to five (5) business days of the scheduled event. APC reserves the right to cancel the program within five (5) business days of the scheduled event, if an insufficient number of people register. In case of APC cancellation, all registration fees will be refunded.

Questions?

If you have any questions regarding the virtual package, please contact us at education@apchaplains.org