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