Programs Offered
Part-time extended unit
The Part-time Extended CPE unit is a five and a half month program offered in the Spring and Fall. Designed for those in an initial unit of CPE or not able to participate in a full-time program. Participants are often seminary students, parish ministers, local chaplains and lay ministers. The time commitment includes one full day of structured education and fifteen hours a week in clinical curriculum, which includes overnight and weekend on-call assignments.
Extended Program
One structured education day every week.
Weekly afternoon and overnight duty
Weekend on-call assignments
Ministry context:
Florida Hospital Altamonte and Florida Hospital Apopka
Winter Park Memorial Hospital and Florida Hospital East Orlando
Florida Hospital Orlando - *
Florida Hospital Celebration Health and Florida Hospital Kissimmee
*(All clinical curriculum done on weekends)
Spring Extended – March 1, 2010 – July 23, 2010 – Applicants currently being notified of status
Fall Extended begins - August 30, 2010 – February, 2011
Fall Semester Program – August 30, 2010 – December 17, 2010
Summer intensive unit
Florida Hospital offers an intensive unit of CPE, normally from the beginning of June through the middle of August. Participants may be seminary students or others able to be committed to a full-time program for an 11-week period.
This program is designed to integrate personal, interpersonal and professional learning in ministry formation. The clinical curriculum component includes professional and personal practice learning.
Open to clergy, laity, religious workers and students for ministry.
Summer – June 7, 2010 – August 20, 2010 – Taking applications, decisions made in April, 2010
CPE Residency
The full-time residency program is offered for one year, normally beginning in September and concluding the following August. Three consecutive, intensive units of CPE are offered during the year.
A residence year is taken by ministers who: desire to become certified as institutional chaplains, strengthen their pastoral care ministry for a variety of ministry contexts, or by those who desire a sabbatical to discern their vocation.
Theological education and a minimum of one unit of ACPE, Inc. CPE are prerequisites for application. The current stipend for CPE residents is over $27,000.00 Residents have full employee benefits including health insurance and paid days off.
Tuition:
The cost of tuition for CPE at Florida Hospital is:
$400.00 for the first unit
$150.00 for each subsequent unt
Residency 2010 – 2011 – August 30, 2010 – August 26, 2011 – Taking applications now
Supervisory CPE
This level is for those students who desire certification by ACPE, Inc. to become a CPE Supervisor. Supervisory CPE is typically a multi-year commitment to professional training and certification. While applications are received at any time, consideration is given only when a position becomes open. Prerequisites include:
Ordination (when appropriate)
Satisfactory completion of at least four Units of CPE
M. Div. completed
Endorsement by one's denomination
Demonstration of professional pastoral care functiong
Personal and professional readiness for training
Click here to see dates for next Supervisory unit.
Florida Hospital's CPE program is accredited by the
Association for Clinical Pastoral Education,
1549 Clairmont Road, Suite 103,
Decatur, Georgia 30033
404-320-1472