The Clinical Pastoral Education Program at Legacy Health offers an ongoing process of self-directed graduate theological education. This education is based on and occurs within the structure of the ACPE standards that focus on the areas of pastoral formation, pastoral competency, pastoral reflection and specialized ministry.
Residency Program
Each full unit of training consists of 400 hours of training, scheduled Monday through Friday from 8 am to 4:30 pm for 11 weeks. The program includes at least 100 hours of structured group and individual supervision, accompanied by at least 300 hours of clinical practice ministry. Students are expected to participate in patient visitation that includes adult and pediatric trauma, acute medical/surgical care, neonatal, burn and adult and adolescdent psychiatric patients (whether on an inpatient or outpatient basis), staff interaction, multidisciplinary team collaboration, family care conferences, structured peer group meetings (such as case conferences, didactic seminars, clinical briefings, daily worship, journal writing and reflection) and partners-in-ministry, as well as function as the-on-call chaplain to seven intensive care units on a rotational basis, providing 24-hour coverage, seven days a week.
Three to four full-time training units may be combined to make a year-long residency program. As students enter each unit of training, they formulate a learning covenant, in light of the 2010 standards and Levels I and II CPE, which focuses on areas of pastoral formation, pastoral competency and pastoral reflection. Pastoral specialization focus may take place after two units of training and is available at any time during the training process.
Half-Unit Program
In addition to the full unit program, an extended half-unit program of 240 hours of training is available twice a year: September to December and March to May. The extended half unit consists of at least 60 hours of structured group and individual supervision, accompanied by at least 180 hours of clinical practice in ministry. The basic components are a learning covenant, didactic seminars, verbatim case conferences, interpersonal peer group, weekly supervision, on-site partner-in-ministry and a research project. Students in this learning context are not expected to provide pastoral care within the hospital setting. For the most part, however, they bring their own clinical experience into the program from their parish, prison, mental health facility, hospice, convalescent/long-term care center and/or counseling setting.
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