The initial Transforming Chaplaincy Project supports CPE Curriculum Development Grants which integrate research literacy into chaplaincy CPE programs in ongoing ways.

 

The first year grant was $2,500; the second year grant is $1,500. An additional $1,000 incentive grant will be available the second year for programs whose students demonstrate a high level of research literacy at the conclusion of year one. Centers are free to use their grants to fund research curricula that best fit their context; for example, a center might establish an ongoing research seminar series, host a researcher-led class, or facilitate online courses in religion, spirituality and health.

 

The first cohort of CPE Centers were selected from among a competitive applicant pool, ultimately totaling 38 centers. 32 grants will be awarded in the second cycle of grants selected in 2017. In all, 70 ACPE-accredited clinical pastoral education (CPE) programs will be awarded curriculum development grants to integrate research literacy into their training programs, engaging over 400 CPE students and staff in research literacy.

Cohort 1

Advocate Health Care, Downers Grove, IL

Janet MacLean & René Brandt

7 CPE centers / 29 students annually

Baptist Health Little Rock, Little Rock, AR

Caleb Lewis

1 CPE center / 7 students annually

Care and Counseling Center of Georgia, Decatur, GA

MaryBeth Hayes

1 CPE center / 17 students annually

Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte and Concord, NC

Angela Janssen Keenan & Beth Jackson-Jordan

2 CPE centers / 11 students annually

Cedars-Sinar Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

Pamela Lazor

1 CPE center / 22 students annually

Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC

David Hormenoo & Jim Rawlings

1 CPE center / 6 students annually

Florida Hospital Division, Orlando, FL

Ramona Reynolds

1 CPE center/ 8 students annually

Gundersen Health System, LaCrosse, WI

Stephen Brunelle & Lori Kaufmann

1 CPE center / 6 students annually

Iliff School of Theology, Denver, CO

Kelly Arora

6 CPE centers / 28 students annually

Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, Cleveland, OH

Stacy Kenney

1 CPE center / 6 students annually

Lutheran Services New York Alliance, New York, NY

Silvia Misina

1 CPE center / 6 students annually

Mercy Health - St. Vincent Medical Center, Toledo, OH

Stephen O’Brien & Manda Rice

1 CPE center / 4 students annually

Mount Sinai Health System, New York, NY

David Fleenor

1 CPE center / 9 students annually

Norton Healthcare, Louisville, KY

Mary Virginia Burks

1 CPE center / 7 students annually

Parkland Health & Hospital System, Dallas, TX

Krister White

4 CPE centers / 28 students annually

Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services, Grand Rapids, MI

Kathy Bird DeYoung

1 CPE center  /4 students annually

St. Joseph Mercy Health System, Ann Arbor, MI

Bill Foster

1 CPE center/ 4 students annually

Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL

Jenny Sumner Carswell

1 CPE center / 5 students annually

UCSF Health, San Francisco, CA

Peter Yuichi Clark

1 CPE center / 15 students annually

University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, MN

Robin Franklin & William Reynolds

1 CPE center / 5 students annually

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC

Emily Viverette & Jay Foster

1 CPE center / 13 students annually

White Memorial Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

Estuardo Bazini-Barakat

1 CPE center / 15 students annually

Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT

Angelika Zollfrank

1 CPE center /4 students annually

Cohort 2

Amita Health-Alexian Brothers Medical Center, Elk Grove Village, IL

Jim Gullickson

2 CPE centers / 6 students annually

Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee, WI

Michelle Oberwise-Lacock

1 CPE center / 18 students annually

Bridgeport Hospital, Bridgeport, CT

Adrian Budica

1 CPE center / 4 students annually

Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

Kathleen Gallivan & Brian Conley

1 CPE center / 4 students annually

Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Dagmar Grege

1 CPE center / 11 students annually

Carolinas HealthCare System & New Hanover Regional Medical Center, Charlotte, NC

Marty Aden & Elizabeth Stroop

1 CPE center / 10 students annually

Fairview CPE Center, Minneapolis, MN

Michael Doane

4 CPE centers / 12 students annually

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

James Browning & Betty White

1 CPE center / 5 students annually

Indiana University Health, Indianapolis, IN

Frank Impicciche

1 CPE center / 10 students annually

Mayo Clinic - Rochester, MN

Karen Heistand

2 CPE centers / 27 students annually

VA Loma Linda, Los Angeles, CA

Pamela Lazor

1 CPE center / 5 students annually

Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, IL

Mark Bradley

1 CPE center / 5 students annually

Oklahoma City VA Health Care System, Oklahoma City, OK

Tammy Wooliver

1 CPE center / 6 students annually

Oregon State Hospital, Salem, OR

Walter Balk

1 CPE center / 5 students annually

Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH

Jeffrey Holman

1 CPE center / 8 students annually

Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA

Elizabeth Watson-Martin

1 CPE center / 5 students annually

PIH Health Hospital - Whittier, Whittier, CA

Kraig Beardemphl

1 CPE center, 6 students annually

Providence Health & Services, California Center for CPE, Torrance, CA

Bryan Ferry

3 CPE centers, 14 students annually

Sherman Hospital, Downers Grove, IL

René Brandt & JanetMacLean

1 CPE center / 4 students annually

University of Louisville Hospital / James Graham Brown Cancer Center, Louisville, KY

Frank Woggon

1 CPE center / 4 students annually

University of Virginia Health System & Centra Health Lynchburg General Hospital, Charlottesville & Lynchburg, NC

Kevin Adams & Mildred Best

2 CPE centers, 11 students annually

San Diego VA - DoD CPE Center, San Diego, CA

Michelle Kirby

1 CPE center / 10 students annually

Virginia Commonwealth University / VCU Health, Richmond, VA

Russell Davis & Angie Flack

1 CPE center / 9 students annually