Mission Statement

Advancing exceptional experience-based theological education and professional practice to heal a hurting world.

Vision Statement

We will be an organization where people of diverse faith traditions, backgrounds, and cultures collaborate to provide innovative experiential education. We will lead in the theory and practice of clinical education for spiritual care. We will promote and broaden the provision of quality professional theological education in a variety of settings.

Values

Education: We value a process model of education that is student centered, vigorously reflective and potentially transformative. We understand professional competence as the integration of personal story, religious heritage and theological understanding and knowledge of the behavioral sciences. This integration leads to personal awareness, integrity in relationships and receptivity to diversity.

Diversity: We value diversity and strive to educate culturally competent clinical pastoral educators and spiritual care providers. We engage in professional development in order to increase cultural awareness.

Collegiality: We value relationships marked by accountability, mutual respect, clear communication and ethical practice that supports personal and professional integration and care of self and others.

Strategic Initiatives

• Actively and intentionally seek collaborative relationships with faith groups, seminaries, and other organizations involved in spiritual care education and practice
• Increase the number and diversity of certified supervisors in various contexts through a certification process
• Increase the number and diversity of accredited CPE centers in order to serve the needs of CPE students in various contexts utilizing an accreditation process
• Provide professional development opportunities for members of ACPE and those organizations with whom we collaborate that utilize content experts from within and outside the association
• Ensure the most efficient stewardship of resources and integration of contemporary learning modalities, by actively using current technology, routinely exploring technological trends and when cost effective, implementing new technological applications
• Through fund development and ACPE stakeholder input, build an endowment, nurture new and innovative programs and design and build a new ACPE headquarters