The Department of Pastoral Care provides supervision and training for ministry students in an accredited program, Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE), under the guidance of an ACPE (Association of Clinical Pastoral Education).  The program is coordinated and monitored by an ACPE Supervisor, The Reverend Sheila McNeill-Lee.  The Sibley CPE program is an educational theological program designed for lay persons, seminarians, clergy persons, and pastors. The CPE program is also the first step for the instruction of qualified persons as chaplains in any of the national cognate groups for certified chaplains.  CPE gives students an opportunity to engage in components that include pastoral formation, pastoral competence and pastoral reflection.  The CPE program uses an experiential model of action-reflection-action that includes patient visits, interactions with peers in a group setting and seminars and lectures related to clinical and educational topics.

 

Students who complete the CPE program receive credit for one unit of CPE equal to 400 clinical and educational hours in pastoral education. Sibley offers two programs: a summer unit as well as a winter spring unit.

 

Dates for winter–spring unit – January 4, 2010 – May 7, 2010
Applications accepted beginning August 1, 2009 until the program is filled.  

 

Dates for summer unit – June 7, 2010 – August 13, 2010 
Applications accepted December 1, 2009 until the program is filled.

 

For more on this program, please visit the ACPE website at www.acpe.edu.  You may download an application from the ACPE website. Please contact the Pastoral Care office at 202-537-4084 or email pastoralcare@sibley.org to express your interest in applying to the program. A $25.00 application fee is required for all submitted applications.  No applications are accepted via email. Tuition fee is $800 per unit.