BCCI will only recognize CPE providers whose highest internal authorities support its involvement in the certification process. BCCI needs to have a dedicated liaison/representative contact.
Please provide the name, title, and contact information of your representative/liaison to BCCI (below). Please also provide documentation that the contact person is authorized by the CPE provider’s governing body (e.g., a resolution by its board) and attest that should the CPE provider change its BCCI representative/liaison and/or their contact information, BCCI will be informed of that change.
Each BCCI-recognized CPE provider must take seriously the historical mistreatment of students in CPE and recognize the need to have a culture of safety that minimizes the risk of harm to current and future participants in CPE.
Please describe your process to honor each student and protect their welfare. Share with us your system of policies, ethics processes, grievance escalations, safeguards, redundancies, oversight, transparency, feedback from stakeholders, medical and disability accommodations, etc.
All BCCI-recognized CPE providers must affirm that their students, educators, chaplains, etc. are accountable to the above-linked code of ethics. BCCI-recognized CPE providers may also have their own codes of ethics.
Please provide a written attestation that you will inform APC/BCCI of any employees working as part of the CPE education program if they are found in violation of the ethical conduct guidelines outlined above.
Each BCCI-recognized CPE provider must help its students’ progress toward its defined outcomes (and acknowledges when a student is not making progress). The CPE must tailor its programming to spiritual-care providers at various levels (e.g., novice, intermediate, and advanced). Students must have access to the programs’ evaluative criteria.
Please name the outcomes of your CPE process and provide a rubric of the various levels/stages/milestones your educators and students use to evaluate progress (or stagnation, or regression) toward your objectives.
BCCI will only recognize CPE providers whose educators have demonstratable expertise as spiritual-care educators. Each student requires a fully certified educator to supervise them during their CPE.
Please describe how your program evaluates, certifies, and ensures the quality of your educators as spiritual-care educators: their minimum qualifications, how you prepare, select, monitor, and review them over time, and how you support their own continuing professional education (for continued/increasing proficiency over time). If an educator is not yet fully certified as an educator, that educator in training must be supervised by a fully certified educator. In addition, guest speakers/facilitators, assigned preceptors/mentors, and any other faculty who assist in a CPE program have demonstrated expertise in their given subject areas.
Each BCCI-recognized CPE provider must provide ample and balanced educational hours that prepare students for professional chaplaincy including ≥50% clinical hours, ≥25% classroom hours, and other educational experience.
Please delineate what your unit of credit comprises of in these terms: the minimum total hours, minimum clinical hours, minimum classroom hours, and other designated educational experience(s) (e.g., didactics, individual supervision, peer-group meetings, verbatims, and other education).
Each BCCI-recognized CPE provider is expected to have a standardized and stable curriculum in place for students and educators to use as a guide during their education process.
In order to aid in our evaluation of the CPE program, please indicate and explain any significant updates or changes your program has gone through since January 1, 2024.
Association of Professional Chaplains
