INDIANAPOLIS
– Franciscan Alliance has received two grants to establish
a Clinical Pastoral Education program in regions within its 13-hospital system.
Our Sunday
Visitor has provided $22,000 and the
Koch Foundation $10,000, for a pilot program to be launched at Franciscan St.
Francis Health-Indianapolis, with hopes of expansion throughout
the system in coming years.
Clinical
Pastoral Education is designed to offer hands-on training to postgraduate
students in a clinical setting to provide training toward becoming certified
members of pastoral care teams.
It has been
the standard for training hospital chaplains for decades and is considered the
benchmark in the field.
Our Sunday Visitor was established in 1912 and is one of the largest
English-language Catholic publishers in the world, with more than 1,800
textbooks, parish resources and trade books in print as well as a Sunday
Visitor Newsweekly, available in print and on the Internet.
The Koch
Foundation was established in 1979 by Carl and Paula Koch to fund
Catholic-faith evangelization activities throughout the world. From small
beginnings, it has become one of the largest organizations of its kind in the
United States.
