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1. Executive Director’s Reflection
2. PLEASE NOTE! NACC offices are settled into new place.
3. NACC office files going “in the cloud”
4. NACC Governance Committee seeks members with legal background
5. Remember to read the January-February 2011 Online Vision!
6. Have you moved recently and not told us?
7. Have you received a new position or promotion and not told us?
8. Receiving NACC Now, but you are not an NACC member?
9. May in Milwaukee! Join us for the 2011 National Conference!
10. Would you join the Volunteer Choir for the 2011 National Conference?
11. Seeking Items for the Silent Auction – NACC 2011 Conference
12. 2011 NACC audio conferences!
13. Register now for 2011-2012 Ethics and Spiritual Care Champions Programs
14. The final two webinars for the 2010-2011 Spiritual Care Champion Webinars!
15. Seeking presenter for Spiritual Care Champion webinar on technology
16. How are you using the Standards of Practice for Professional Chaplains?
17. Are you aware of special conference calls that are held?
18. Are you planning to give any presentations on chaplaincy?
19. Order your video promoting the chaplaincy profession
20. Local/regional event dates
21. National Conferences of other Spiritual Care Collaborative partners
22. Healing Tree: a request for prayers
23. Recent job postings
24. Positions wanted
This coming Friday, February 11, 2011, on the Feast of our Lady of Lourdes, is World Day of the Sick. Just before Christmas, Benedict XVI provided his message for this day. He writes:
This event, as the venerable John Paul II wanted, becomes a propitious occasion to reflect upon the mystery of suffering and above all to make our communities and civil society more sensitive to our sick brothers and sisters. If every man is our brother, much more must the sick, the suffering and those in need of care be, at the centre of our attention, so that none of them feels forgotten or emarginated; indeed, ‘the true measure of humanity is essentially determined in relationship to suffering and to the sufferer. This holds true both for the individual and for society. A society unable to accept its suffering members and incapable of helping to share their suffering and to bear it inwardly through “com-passion” is a cruel and inhuman society’ (Spe salvi, n. 38).
The quote from Spe Salvi is powerful. How true it is! The chaplain’s ministry, in this sense, is not a “specialized” ministry, but a “symbolic” ministry imaging what each of us, as a human being, is intended to be for another, and where society is intended to be for the most vulnerable and suffering. We see in this spiritual care ministry of compassion who we are to be for one another in the midst of suffering. How often do spouses and family members find courage to imitate our words and actions as we embody for them who they truly want to be for their loved ones? How often are we asked to “lead the way” so they know how to accept the suffering loved one and “bear inwardly through ‘com-passion’” their pain.
Thank you all for your gift of ministry to us, to your employer, to your colleagues, and to the numerous people and their families whom you serve. Your ministry keeps at the center of our attention what needs to be the true measure of our humanity! We are so grateful! Appreciatively,
David A. Lichter, D.Min.
Executive Director
We are now about two thirds of a football field north of our old offices and five stories up, at 4915 S. Howell Avenue, Suite 501, Milwaukee, WI, 53207-5939. Just a reminder to you that if you e-mailed us between January 27th and January 31st, there is the likelihood that your e-mail was lost as our server was down while being moved. Please try to contact us again. Thank you again for your patience and understanding.
NACC office files going “in the cloud”A week before Christmas all the NACC membership and certification materials of each member were sent to Datastore to be scanned and converted into electronic, web-based records for easy access and management. Going forward, all member files will be scanned and stored electronically. Be assured, all records are secure and private, and we will have several back-ups! This will help our NACC staff better serve our members by ensuring even safer storage of and easy accessibility to their documents.
NACC Governance Committee seeks members with legal backgroundThe NACC Governance Committee is seeking applications of any members who might have come from a legal background. If you fit that professional background, please consider offering your services. For more background on the Governance Committee and an application for the Governance Committee, please click here.
Remember to read the January-February 2011 Online Vision!The January-February 2011 online version of Vision is available. Please take time to view its content and share it with others. The main content is “members only” and is accessed through your membership number. We welcome your comments/suggestions/feedback. Please contact either Laurie Hansen Cardona (Vision@nacc.org) or Phil Paradowski (pparadowski@nacc.org).
Have you moved recently and not told us?When you have moved personal residences or places of employment, or have a new e-mail address or phone number, please don’t forget to contact Mary Pawicz (mpawicz@nacc.org), our membership support staff person at the NACC office, to let her know! We don’t want you to miss our communications to you!
Have you received a new position or promotion and not told us?We like to recognize our members who have recently received a new position or promotion. Please let Cindy Bridges (cbridges@nacc.org) know so we can publish it in NACC Now! Below is our current list of updates from members:
Maria Benoit
Maria has relocated back to the Boston area and is employed by D’Youville Senior Care in Lowell, Massachusetts. Maria is the Manager of the Pastoral Care Department. The facility is sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Ottawa.
Larry Ehren
Larry has accepted a new position as of December 6, 2010 in Kansas City, MO. This is the teaching hospital of the University of Missouri – a ‘safety net’ hospital – and level One Trauma Center for the KC area.
Fr. Lawrence Chellaian
Father Lawrence has been promoted as the Director of Spiritual Care at CHRISTUS St. Michael Health System, Texarkana, TX. He has been working there as a Chaplain since 2002.
Sister Rose Grabowski
Sister Rose is working as chaplain for our Sisters in Maria Center Stevens Point, WI.
Carolyn Mishler B.C.C.
On January 1 of this year Carolyn moved from half time to full time chaplain at Mercy St. Anne's Hospital and the Cancer Center located in that hospital.
If you are one of the 800+ who are not members of NACC but are receiving NACC Now, have you considered becoming an NACC Member? Join the more than 2500 members who advance the ministry of spiritual care, and support one another’s ministry! Receive additional members’ benefits! Visit the NACC website for more membership information. Join today!
May in Milwaukee! Join us for the 2011 National Conference in Milwaukee, WI, May 21-24, 2011! You will be receiving the Conference brochure in the coming days. Watch for it! It’s going to be a great conference.
Would you join the Volunteer Choir for the 2011 National Conference?Come one, come all and sing in the 2011 National Chaplain Conference Volunteer Choir in Milwaukee. We will have Randy Hilgers directing the choir and there are not too many rehearsals so please come and make a joyful noise to the Lord and for all your chaplain family, friends, colleagues and peers. For more information: contact Michael Doyle, Liturgy Chair for the conference, (847) 571-6572 or celloman66@gmail.com.
Seeking Items for the Silent Auction – NACC 2011 ConferenceWe invite members to bring to the 2011 Conference handmade or other types of items, including items from your institution, for our silent auction to be held at the conference. Share your talents and gifts to benefit other members! Proceeds will go towards conference scholarships. If you are interested in contributing an item, please contact Susanne at schaw@nacc.org.
We are excited to share with you our 2011 NACC Audio Conferences. They will again be offered on Thursdays at noon (Central Time). More details will follow. Here are the presenters and topics for all but December 2011.
For questions about our audio conferences, please contact Jeanine Annunziato (jannunziato@nacc.org).
Register now for 2011-2012 Ethics and Spiritual Care Champions ProgramsTime to register for the 2011-2012 Ethics Champions and Spiritual Care Champions programs. Take advantage of signing up for a yearly registration for these series. The Deadline for Yearly Registration for both programs is Friday, March 18th, 2011, at 5:00 pm (EST). Take advantage of the full year registration. To view the programs click here. To register for Spiritual Care Champions, go to www.che.org/mission/index.php?id=46 and then click on “Yearly Registration Spiritual Care Champions 2011 – 2012.” To register for Ethics Champions¸ go to www.che.org/ethics/index.php?id=29 and then click on “Yearly Registration Ethics Champions 2011 – 2012.”
The final two webinars for the 2010-2011 Spiritual Care Champion Webinars!Please remember that you can sign up for individual sessions of the Spiritual Care Champion Series. For more details on how to register for these sessions, click here. Future programs include the following:
February 16th, 2011, Noon – 1:00 pm (Eastern Standard Time), “End of Life and Bereavement,” Presented by Catherine Seeley
March 16th, 2011, Noon – 1:00 pm (Eastern Standard Time), “Role of Spiritual Care in Palliative Care,” Presented by Elizabeth Keene, VP, Mission Effectiveness, St. Mary’s Health System
The Spiritual Care Champion program is looking for a presenter for the July 13, 2011 webinar on “The Use of Technology in Spiritual Care.” The presentation is aimed to familiarize chaplains with importance of being aware of current heath information technology, and ways to be involved in creating a meaningful spiritual care component of their organization’s electronic health record (EHR). Perhaps a member who has been involved with this process within his/her system would offer to do this presentation. Please contact David Lichter (dlichter@nacc.org) if you are interested.
How are you using the Standards of Practice for Professional Chaplains?Our member, Leszek Baczkura, seeks advice from NACC members regarding their efforts to integrate the Standards of Practice for Professional Chaplains in Acute Care Settings (www.spiritualcarecollaborative.org/standards_of_practice.asp) into either their job descriptions or evaluative processes. Resurrection Health Care has been working on a detailed description/explanation of each standard and added the ERD’s to Standard 5. They are considering how best to utilize these in their job descriptions and/or evaluative processes. Please contact Leszek Baczkura (lbaczkura@Reshealthcare.org). If there are several members interested in discussing this topic, the NACC will gladly arrange a conference call as well.
Are you aware of special conference calls that are held?For the past two years, the NACC has been offering sixty minute conference calls for those serving in Palliative/Hospice Care and in Long Term Care, as well as for the 40ish and Under Group and for Deacons. If you have not been participating on these calls and would like to, please contact Cindy Bridges (cbridges@nacc.org) to let her know which one. We are planning to set those calls for 2011 by the end of January.
Are you planning to give any presentations on chaplaincy?We continue to encourage members to promote the chaplaincy profession. Please remember that the NACC office staff want to make sure you have resources to share. If you are planning to do a presentation, please contact Cindy Bridges (cbridges@nacc.org) so that she can send you brochures. Also we remind you that you can access on our NACC website the Chaplaincy Ministry video (or order one – see below) as well as two PowerPoint slideshows to use as a basis for the presentation at www.nacc.org/advancing/promo.asp.
Order your video promoting the chaplaincy professionOur video on Chaplaincy, both a recruitment version (that begins and ends with “Is God Calling You?”), and a version without this question, is available in DVD format. The charge is just $6.00, the cost of production and shipping. You may preview the video at this link. To order copies please email Cindy Bridges for instructions.
Local/regional event datesPlease review the list below, and mark your calendars. More details of events will be in future NACC Now's.
Please visit the Spiritual Care Collaborative (SCC) website to view the national conferences of our SCC partners. www.spiritualcarecollaborative.org/events.asp
Healing Tree: a request for prayersPlease let us know if you would like our membership to pray for your health and healing. Also please let us know when you want us to remove your name from our Healing Tree.
We continue to pray for: Linda Piotrowski (bi-lateral knee replacement surgery), Jim Castello (double knee replacement surgery), Bonnie Burnett (at the death of her brother); Francis Potts (neck/spine surgery); Maureen Moran (ovarian cancer), Fr. James Radde, SJ (cancer), Sr. Mary Clare Boland, SP, Sr. Mary Ruth Krack, OSB (pancreatic cancer), Sr. Phyllis Ann DiRenzo (treatment for breast cancer), Jane Smith (macular hole in right eye – eye surgery), Kathy Brier (hospitalization-daughter of NACC member Theresa Brier), Ginny Conron (POP surgery), Marcella Keefe-Slager (lung cancer and treatment), Sr. John Marie Stack, OSF (lymphoma cancer), Gloria Troxler (preventive chemotherapy after ovarian surgery), Fr. Kevin Ikpah (eye troubles), Sr. Micheletta McGee, RSM (pancreatic cancer), Lourdes B. Ruta (wife of Peter Ruta, in recovery), Fr. Bob Nee, BCC, LICSW, CT (intractable epilepsy), Kelly Elizabeth Sexton (cancer: daughter of NACC member Melyssa Sexton), Fr. Bill Spacek (detached retina and other eye issues); Sr. Nancy Crane, OP (cancer treatment), and Sr. Hilda Mallet, MHS (cancer treatment).
Recent job postingsThe following positions have been posted in the last two weeks. Please go to www.nacc.org/positions/available.asp for more information.
CERTIFIED STAFF CHAPLAIN
Part-time (20 hours per week) Rotating Schedule, Weekends/Holidays
Toledo, OH - Mercy St. Vincent
SPANISH SPEAKING PER-DIEM HOSPICE CHAPLAIN
San Jose, CA - Hospice of the Valley
DIRECTOR OF PASTORAL CARE
Decatur, IL - St. Mary’s Hospital
DIRECTOR OF CHAPLAINCY SERVICES
HealthCare Chaplaincy, Long Island, NY - Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children's Medical Center
PRIEST CHAPLAIN – FULL TIME
Eau Claire, WI - Sacred Heart Hospital
SPIRITUAL HEALTH DIRECTOR
Kankakee, IL - Provena Heritage Village
PRIEST
Detroit, MI - Henry Ford Health System
CPE RESIDENCY
Los Angeles, CA - Providence Health & Services, California Center for CPE
PRIEST CHAPLAIN/CHAPLAIN
Palos Heights, IL - Palos Community Hospital
CHAPLAIN
King County, WA - Providence Health and Services
DIRECTOR OF PASTORAL CARE
New York, NY - Lenox Hill Hospital
RESIDENCY, SUPERVISORY, SUMMER & EXTENDED INTERN
La Crosse, WI - Gundersen Lutheran Health System
CHAPLAIN
Washington, MO - St. John’s Mercy Hospital
PRIEST CHAPLAIN
Burbank, CA - Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center
In this time of change and uncertainty it is more important than ever to use every resource available. If you have lost your job recently, if you’re just seeking a new or better position, or if you are an employer seeking a chaplain for your organization, be sure to visit our Positions Wanted webpage. NACC members can take advantage of this free service by placing a job-seeking ad, for free, which will run for 60 days. To see the ads, visit www.nacc.org/positions/wanted.asp.
To place your own ad, send an email to Phil Paradowski: pparadowski@nacc.org.