The Pastoral Care Council of the ACT
is a peak body that represents a cross-section of pastoral care providers and is accountable to the community through the network of pastoral carers and pastoral care providers in Canberra, within the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).
The Council includes representation from religious and spiritual organisations and pastoral carers, together with representation from organisations concerned with pastoral care, and appropriate representation by the ACT Government.
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is offered by the presence of someone who will listen to you and compassionately support you.
Pastoral carers have training to ensure a professional approach in the provision of support.
Within institutions such as hospitals, nursing homes, education, correctional services and the community in general, you may be assisted with pastoral care by a "chaplain", or "spiritual advisor", or "pastoral carer".
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NEWS
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ABC's "Compass" program to feature hospital chaplaincy
during in-depth (8-part series) in April & May
Dear colleagues and friends,
Reciently I happened to stumble onto something significant recently when “surfing” at ABC’s Compass website. Here is what I read:
“...in April Compass will premiere a groundbreaking eight-part Australian series, HOSPITAL CHAPLAINS. Shot over six months at three major Australian hospitals, this series offers a unique and never-before-seen perspective on the daily life and death drama of Australian hospital life. Our chaplains are Catholic and Protestant, Muslim, Jewish and Buddhist. Regardless of their faith, they all meet the same challenges - to help make sense of the mystery of illness, pain, suffering and despair. Must-watch viewing …Compass at the new time of 6.30pm on Sundays.”
Who could have guessed – an 8-part series on Compass! I contacted Judith Dunbar to see if she knew more about all this because she coordinates pastoral care and is a supervisor in CPE at Royal North Shore and I suspected someone in the greater Sydney metropolitan region was involved. Judith told me this was indeed filmed among chaplains and pastoral carers at Royal North Shore, St. Vincent, and Liverpool hospitals. She also shared that Clinical Pastoral Education will be highlighted as a significant component – demonstrating how people get training for doing chaplaincy and pastoral care. Apparently Geraldine Doogue herself was not involved in the filming but will be introducing the series when it goes live. The film crew folks told her they had absolutely no idea of the breadth and depth of what chaplains and pastoral carers get into in our public hospitals, that this was one of the most exciting projects they have been engaged in for a long time and they think it will be a real eye-opener for most Australians.
I think this represents a wonderful opportunity for us, especially in our local situation – to capitalise on the interest and awareness it is likely to generate, particularly since the National Conference of Spiritual Care Australia will be held right here in Canberra 16-19 of April while that series is underway. I encourage everyone to get this on their diaries and to make our leaders and supporters in our respective faith groups, pastoral care organisations, and religious circles aware of this - especially as it gets closer to the time - to encourage people to watch and discuss! Highlighting this on both the ACT Pastoral Care and the Spiritual Care Australia websites would be good, as well.
Clair
(January 27, 2012)
Rev. Clair Hochstetler, MDiv.
Manager, Department of Chaplaincy and Pastoral Care - The Canberra Hospital
P.O. Box 11 | Woden | ACT | 2606 | Australia
Mobile: 04 6662 3261 |
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The
STANDARDS
OF PRACTICE FOR PASTORAL
CARE
Standards of Practice are authoritative statements that describe broad responsibilities for which practitioners are accountable. It provides direction for practice and a framework for the evaluation of practice. These standards will provide valuable guidance for the way that pastoral care is provided by individual practitioners. But importantly, this will also provide a reference for best practice within institutions, as well as for the religious and faith bodies which encourage and sponsor the provisioning of pastoral care with chaplains and spiritual carers.
»Standards of Practice
The Board of the Council presented this report at the July general meeting, inviting member organisations to consider, in anticipation of a recommendation that these standards were adopted by the November Annual Meeting of the Pastoral Care Council of the ACT.
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for Pastoral Care and Chaplaincy is provided in Canberra and across the region.
» TRAINING COURSES
Programs for 2012 NOW posted
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