The National School Chaplain Association (NSCA) (405-831-3299) wants to help you hire a certified chaplain in your school and join a growing community of Texas schools that are igniting hope and purpose in their community.
If you think of a school chaplain as a figure who only provides spiritual counsel to students, the NSCA wants you to know that their chaplains can do so much more for your school. From supporting students, teachers and parents’ emotional wellbeing to creating social responsibility initiatives, a chaplain can become an integral figure in your school community.
The NSCA is the leading body for school chaplaincy both worldwide and in the United States and all of their certified chaplains undergo their comprehensive and rigorous training program, and most come from a background as a school teacher, as someone in youth church ministry or as a chaplain working in another context like healthcare. Now, the NSCA has updated their school chaplaincy programs to offer your school both a professional certified chaplain and a holistic raft of support measures facilitated by their association.
Go to https://www.nationalschoolchaplainassociation.org/your-school to find out more.
As the NSCA is the US’ largest chaplaincy body, if your school hires an NSCA-certified chaplain, you will gain access to a 24/7 chaplain, to the assistance of the association’s Senior Chaplain Board and to additional resources and programs that can benefit your community.
Their chaplains are trained with the skills they need to create a safe space within your school and to offer your students, staff and community members confidential counseling. Through these confidential and voluntary sessions, a school chaplain will strive to improve emotional wellbeing, ease student and teacher stress, and provide spiritual care.
Beyond one-on-one guidance, NSCA-certified school chaplains will also organize community-building and charitable activities in your school and create extra-curricular programs that encourage social responsibility. In an era of loneliness, anxiety and pessimism, an NSCA school chaplain can ignite hope and purpose by creating a culture of giving and social justice.
As a spokesperson for the association said, “Rather than merely preparing students for a post-commencement occupation, chaplains help to nourish a lifelong discernment of vocation. Chaplains build a sense of shared responsibility that embraces opportunity and encompasses a life of service to our common good. By allowing learners to examine within, around, and beyond themselves, chaplains empower students to claim their destinies.”
You can access more information on the role of the chaplain at https://campuschaplains.org/
The NSCA calls upon principals, teachers, wellbeing and welfare staff members, parents, and school community members like yourself to advocate for the installation of a chaplain in your school. Following the passing of the Chaplain Bill, chaplains are now welcomed in all public and private schools in the state and the NSCA is the only government-endorsed chaplaincy body which trains, certifies and places professional chaplains into schools.
There are professional, informed, respectful, supportive and empowering chaplains ready and just waiting to transform your school for the better. Lobby to make them a part of your community today.
If you’re not connected to a school community or your school already has an NSCA chaplain, you can support the work of the NSCA by making charitable donations or joining their advocacy groups.
Visit https://www.nationalschoolchaplainassociation.org/champions-1 to see how you can help the NSCA achieve their mission of making schools places of real goodness.
