Lutheran Services New York Alliance currently offers Distance learning CPE program – Extended CPE Unit. It is offered twice a year – 25 weeks long. Spring/Summer Unit: March – August and Fall/Winter Unit: September – February. In this program you are free to elect a clinical site of your choice – hospital, nursing home, congregation, community, etc. in your geographical area. All students then join together in the group learning, which happens once a week via Zoom. Written materials are communicated and submitted via Google Classroom.

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Clinical Pastoral Education:

• Is experiential, supervised learning
• Develops skills for pastoral care to persons in crisis
• Uses clinical/case method
• Seeks to enhance self-understanding as related to ministerial functioning
• Undergirds self-integration of pastoral/ministerial identity
• Utilizes interpersonal group process for reporting and reflecting on ministry
• Practice individualizes learning goals
• Explores practical and conceptual aspects of theology and behavioral sciences