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John Templeton Foundation Awards HealthCare Chaplaincy
$3 Million Grant Seeking to Revolutionize Chaplaincy Care
New York (September 14, 2011) – The John Templeton Foundation, a philanthropic catalyst for discoveries relating to the big questions of human purpose and ultimate reality, has awarded a three year $3 million grant to HealthCare Chaplaincy, a leader in the research, education and practice of spiritual care and palliative care, to advance scientific research on professional chaplaincy’s contributions to health and health care, particularly palliative care, which relieves suffering and improves one’s quality of life.
This grant – the largest in size and scope for professional chaplaincy research – is expected to create a cadre of board certified chaplains skilled and committed to carrying forward the future research agenda for the chaplaincy profession. Unlike medicine, nursing and social work, professional health care chaplaincy lacks the scientific research that adequately defines and documents its best practices.
The John Templeton Foundation is partnering with HealthCare Chaplaincy to:
- Select, fund and supervise about six interrelated and interdisciplinary national research projects to propose and test models, methods and measures for chaplaincy practice in the growing field of palliative care
- Close the research gap by establishing evidence-based standards of chaplaincy care practice in palliative care
- Team experienced behavioral and social science researchers with chaplains to develop their research skills
- Grow the number of skilled chaplain researchers by training, mentoring and supervising aspiring chaplain-researchers whose projects are not selected for funding through the competitive RFP process, but who, nonetheless, show considerable promise as researchers.
HealthCare Chaplaincy will bring together three times each year these teams of professional chaplains and medical, social and behavioral science researchers to share their insights and discoveries in their funded research.
HealthCare Chaplaincy will issue its Request for Proposals in late 2011.
Project co-leaders are Linda Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Buehler Center on Aging, professor of Health Industry Management at the Kellogg School and professor of medicine at Northwestern University Medical School, and the Rev. George Handzo, BCC, vice president for chaplaincy care leadership and practice at HealthCare Chaplaincy. Both are nationally recognized experts in their fields.
The project will engage more than a dozen distinguished consultants and adjunct faculty from prestigious colleges, universities and professional schools from across North America and from Health Care Chaplaincy’s staff.
Contact for media inquries
Jim Siegel
212-644-1111 x141
jsiegel@healthcarechaplaincy.org
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The Wall Street Journal
12/6/11
Read "Bigger Roles for Chaplains on Patient Medical Teams" and "Informed Patient: Bringing Spirituality to Medicine."
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