To our Faith Communities Summer 2016 A Note from Rev. Kevin Massey Our hearts have broken in these past months with mass shootings and terrorism in Charleston South Carolina, Paris, Brussels, Orlando, and Istanbul. Some express fear for the future, and worries about violence in our own communities. The faith community has a pivotal role in supporting communities faced with tragedy. Yet some faith community leaders feel unprepared for this pivotal role. In This Issue Summer CPE Interns...2 Simulated Patients..3 Children s Hospital News.4,5 Office for Mission & Spiritual Care The Office for Mission and Spiritual Care provides spiritual care for patients, their families and associates 24 hours a day every day of the year. The office is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m.to 4:30 p.m. To contact us, call 847-723-6395. Evening and weekends call 847-723-2210, ask the hospital operator for the On-Call Chaplain. Advocate Health Care also have a pivotal role in planning for, and responding to disaster and mass casualty that could threaten our communities. We wish to partner with our local faith community leaders to better help us prepare for this sobering responsibility. Therefore, in coming months, Advocate Health Care will be undertaking an outreach to local faith community leaders to help prepare them both for caring for their own faith communities in times of tragedy, and for partnering with our hospitals to care for the wider community. We will be offering training sessions at each of our hospitals to provide support to faith community leaders to equip them for caring for their faith communities in times of emergency and disaster. This training will include a module on organizing your faith community to guarantee delivery of the services your community relies on, even if confronted by an emergency. Another module will include training in Psychological First Aid, an evidence based approach to helping people cope with trauma and loss. Finally a module will describe how Advocate Health Care will be inviting faith community leaders to partner with us in providing support to our communities if there were ever a disaster or mass casualty incident affecting Advocate Hospitals. Information about the dates of these training sessions will be forthcoming. In the meantime, Light Our Way, a helpful guide for local faith community leaders on caring for your community during disaster is available Click Here. We thank you for your partnership in the care you give to our communities, and are grateful that in a time of emergency, this partnership will support and sustain us all. Blessings,
Mission and Spiritual Care welcomes six summer CPE interns! The summer Clinical Pastoral Education program, June 6- August 19, is well-underway! Rev. Susan Gullickson, D.Min., is the supervisor for this full-time intensive unit. Susan, an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), has selected a diverse group of students to learn from one another and from their engagement with ministry on assigned units in the hospital. Eliezer Dimarsky arrived in the US from Ukraine in 1987. He has studied in a rabbinic college in Chicago. Since 1998 Eliezer became a spiritual leader of Russian Jewish community in Chicago and a rabbi of Heritage Russian Jewish congregation. Eliezer says he loves to exercise, play music, do web design, fix things around the house, spend time with his family and learn about clinical spiritual care. Maiya Lueptow is an ordained elder of the Free Methodist Church. She has served as Associate Pastor at Hillside Church in Evanston, IL since 2002 and as Director of Hillside Food Pantry since it was launched in May, 2009. She has been married to Rich for 27 years, and they have two children: Hannah, 25, and Kyle, 21. Valerie Hummel is from southeast South Dakota where she grew up in the United Methodist Church. She came to Chicago to study for a Master of Divinity student at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary, located on the campus of Northwestern. She is seeking ordination as an Elder in the United Methodist Church. Valerie has been married to her husband Seth for about a year. After her schooling, the couple plans on going back to the Dakotas for church placement. She says she s looking forward to this summer CPE program: she is ready and willing to learn more about herself and about how to care Emanuel Torres-Fuentes, originally from Veracruz, Mexico, is a Roman Catholic seminarian at Mundelein Seminary. He is studying to be a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago, and Clinical Pastoral Education is required for his formation. According to Emanuel, I am excited to be here at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital experiencing different cultures and religions and learning about chaplaincy. Josh Larson is a current Master of Divinity student at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois where he is entering his third and final year. He grew up in Wisconsin and received an undergraduate degree in marketing from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Josh is in the ordination process within the United Methodist Church to become a deacon. In his free time he enjoys baking bread, reading, board and card games, and playing racquetball. Josh is looking forward to growing and learning more about journeying with individuals spiritually while in CPE this summer. Barbara Yuki Schwartz is a PhD candidate in theology and ethics at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. She is a member-indiscernment for ordination with the United Church of Christ, and a member at Wellington Avenue UCC in Chicago. Born and raised in Oklahoma, Yuki came to the Chicago area in 2010, and now lives with her partner, Clint, and their cat, Clawd, in Skokie. In her spare time, Yuki enjoys reading novels, watching sci-fi TV and movies, cheering on the St. Louis Cardinals, and enjoying the great restaurants that Chicagoland has to offer. After finishing her dissertation, she hopes to teach at seminary and be ordained in the UCC. 2
Miniature horses visit with the elderly Two miniature horses, named Charmer and Mystery, visited with the elderly at the Older Adult Services of Advocate Lutheran General Hospital. The older adults include individuals with early Alzheimer s disease and dementia, as well as those struggling with the effects of stroke and Parkinson s disease, to name just a few. The miniature horses from Mane in Heaven, are registered through Pet Partners, nationally recognized as the pioneer of animal-assisted therapy. The "minis" are specially trained and have passed extensive testing to provide comfort and healing to those in need, much like traditional therapy dogs. When they came to visit, the horses were wearing their own gym shoes, provided by their sneaker sponsor, Teddy Mountain. The footwear helps steady the horses and prevent slipping on inside floors and hallways. The miniature horses acting on commands, brought huge smiles, laughter and love to the participants. The horses got lots of hugs and kisses as they met their admirers. Older Adult Services offers a wide range of unique programs to assist older adults and their families. Simulated Patients: A new tool in education for spiritual care! The current Clinical Pastoral Education residents and CPE interns are engaging in a new form of education this summer. In two day -long events, students meet with simulated patients: persons trained to act as a specific character in a spiritual care vignette, based on true-to-life encounters staff chaplains have experienced. These sessions are observed through one-way mirrors and video-taped, to allow students to gain immediate feedback on their efforts at care. In addition, the patients themselves give students their real-time reflections on the encounters, letting the student chaplains know the impact of their interventions. This learning opportunity is part of a two-year research project coordinated by Rev. Marilyn Dyise Barnes, MA, BCC. The project is funded by a grant from the Lutheran General Health Partners Endowment. In early June, prior to any formal training in pastoral care, the summer interns had a day-long experience with this model of learning, just to get a baseline reading on their approaches. They will return to the same cases near the end of their summer CPE program, to see what changes they might have made. The yearlong CPE residents will also have an opportunity to work with, and receive feedback from simulated patients as a capstone to their year of training. These experiences provide students with a form of action-reflection training which can supplement the more familiar tool of verbatim conversations constructed by recall of a dialogue with a patient, family, or staff member. The summer interns enjoyed their first opportunity with this new model, glad for the chance to practice some pastoral care interventions in this simulated environment prior to their first visits with hospitalized patients. They are looking forward to the chance to work in the simulation environment again, once they ve had 11 intensive weeks working in the healthcare setting! Calling All Lutheran Deaconess Alumni and Soon-to- Retire Nurses Save the Date Nursing Alumni and Retiree Gathering at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital August 13 10 a.m. to noon Join friends from near and far for a morning of friendship and fun. Complimentary breakfast and program! 3
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