For Chaplains & Spiritual Caregivers
Supporting Chaplains and Spiritual Caregivers
ICJS offers programs for chaplains as they provide inclusive spiritual care in hospitals, prisons, academic campuses, military bases, law enforcement agencies, and other diverse institutional settings.
Chaplains are vital interreligious leaders who serve at the intersection of secular institutions and religious life. These spiritual caregivers accompany individuals and communities during times of crisis, transition, grief, and loss. They often provide care across lines of religious difference—supporting people of many faiths, no faith, or traditions outside their own.
Join an ICJS Interreligious Spirituality Group
The ICJS Interreligious Spirituality Group for spiritual care providers and chaplains is a free professional development opportunity to build connections with other spiritual care providers and deepen interreligious learning. The registration for 2025–2026 chaplain groups is now closed, but you can sign up below to receive information on future spirituality groups.
ICJS Programs for Chaplains and Spiritual Caregivers
Lunch and Learn Events
ICJS offers quarterly online webinars on topics of interest to spiritual care providers featuring speakers who are leaders in the field. All sessions are recorded and are available for viewing in our On Demand library on this page.
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Book Study
ICJS hosts book studies that bring together chaplains and spiritual care providers from diverse traditions to read and reflect on texts exploring spiritual, theological, and social issues. These gatherings foster interreligious dialogue, mutual understanding, and meaningful connection across religious communities.
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Spirituality Groups
Are you a spiritual care provider looking for free professional development opportunities and peer support? If so, please consider participating in the virtual ICJS Interreligious Spirituality Group for spiritual care providers and chaplains. This is an opportunity to build connections with other spiritual care providers and deepen interreligious learning. Spirituality groups meet monthly via Zoom.
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Reflect and Refresh
ICJS invites spiritual care providers and chaplains across Maryland to come together for a day of reflection, learning, dialogue, and communal care. Through interactive and engaging workshops we will explore topics that pertain to providing spiritual care. Space will also be provided for participants to engage in care practices that cultivate wellbeing, hope, and joy.
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News: ICJS Awards 2025 Interreligious Capacity-Building Grants for Chaplains
With the support of the Bunting Family Foundation, ICJS has awarded interreligious capacity-building grants to four organizations to help them expand their ability to offer chaplaincy and spiritual care services: Rivers of Life AME Church, Saint Elizabeths Hospital, Sibley Memorial Hospital, and University of Maryland Medical System Foundation. The grants of up to $1,000 each are designed to specifically address the interreligious needs of volunteer chaplains and those serving in organizations that sometimes lack access to sufficient resources.
The organizations receiving this year’s micro-grants are offering vital spiritual care to communities that are too often forgotten. With this support, they’ll be able to expand their reach and strengthen their support of these underserved communities.
Chaplain Lunch and Learn Events On Demand
Religion at the Intersection: Expanding organizational capacity for interreligious spiritual care
Chaplains and spiritual care providers are increasingly called to serve at the complex intersection of religion and healthcare, education, and criminal justice systems. These ICJS Grant recipients are actively increasing their organizations’ capacity to provide sensitive, interreligious spiritual care.
Deepening Our Capacity for Interreligious Spiritual Care
Are you a volunteer chaplain, CPE student, a solo chaplain, or a care provider new to the field of spiritual care provision? Consider joining ICJS for a special lunch and learn gathering where we will explore ways to expand one’s interreligious competency and capacity as a spiritual caregiver.
Creative Care: Using art to bridge divides
Chaplain Sangeetha Kowsik, founder of Ihsan Ishan Design, shares how she has used art and design to educate and unite diverse communities, cultures, and religions in her work as a chaplain.
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