CPEI Affiliates
Partnering with CPEI gives organizations a meaningful way to support clinical pastoral education, strengthen spiritual care formation, and expand access to supervised learning opportunities.
Mission-Aligned Partnership
CPEI partners with organizations that share a commitment to formation, service, ethical practice, and meaningful spiritual care. Through affiliation, organizations can help create learning environments where students develop self-awareness, pastoral identity, spiritual care skills, and professional competence.
Affiliate partnerships support CPEI’s mission by helping make clinical pastoral education more accessible to students, communities, institutions, and spiritual care settings.
Organizations interested in affiliation can begin by reviewing how affiliation works and then contacting CPEI to discuss fit, readiness, and next steps.
Affiliation with CPEI can help organizations strengthen spiritual care education, support learners, and participate in a wider network of formation and professional development.
Education
Affiliates help create spaces where students can integrate spiritual care theory, supervised practice, reflection, and feedback.
Mission
Affiliation supports CPEI’s broader purpose of preparing people to offer compassionate, ethical, and skilled spiritual care in diverse settings.
Access
Partners help increase access to clinical pastoral education for students who may be serving in hospitals, hospices, congregations, community organizations, or other care settings.
Community
Affiliates become part of a broader CPEI community connected by education, supervision, spiritual care, and professional formation.
Quality
CPEI affiliation connects organizations with an educational structure shaped by published standards, policies, student services, and institutional accountability.
Growth
Affiliation can help organizations build capacity for spiritual care education, student engagement, supervised practice, and professional development.
Mission & Vision Connection
CPEI’s mission and vision are grounded in the belief that spiritual care education should be accessible, accountable, and responsive to the needs of people and communities. Affiliate partnerships help bring that vision into practice.
Affiliates support educational environments where students grow in self-awareness, pastoral identity, ethical practice, and spiritual care competence.
Affiliation helps expand access to CPE and Supervisory Education across geographic, institutional, cultural, and ministry contexts.
Partner organizations help students connect learning with real-world care for patients, families, communities, staff, congregations, and neighbors.
CPEI welcomes conversations with organizations that are committed to spiritual care education, supervised practice, and service to their communities.
Healthcare organizations seeking to support chaplaincy education, spiritual care formation, and supervised learning opportunities.
Care settings where students may develop spiritual care skills in grief, illness, family systems, and end-of-life care.
Faith communities and ministry settings that provide opportunities for pastoral care, reflection, leadership, and formation.
Nonprofits, correctional settings, first responder contexts, and other community organizations connected to spiritual care needs.
Affiliation looks different depending on the organization, but partners may support CPEI education in several important ways.
Settings where students can engage in meaningful spiritual care practice.
Local contacts, orientation, documentation, or coordination connected to student practice.
Connection with staff, leaders, spiritual care professionals, and interdisciplinary teams.
A commitment to ethical practice, student learning, confidentiality, and respectful spiritual care.
Getting Started
Learn how affiliation can support your organization’s educational, spiritual care, or community service goals.
Review how affiliation works, including expectations, responsibilities, and preparation.
Contact CPEI or complete the next step to begin a conversation about fit and readiness.
CPEI welcomes conversations with organizations interested in supporting spiritual care education, student formation, and supervised learning opportunities.