To help
create a healthy, wholesome campus
environment
To be
available to address students needs
To be an
additional resource for students and
staff
Constitutional Legality
Law
Enforcement Chaplaincy meets the legal
requirements stated in the U.S. Supreme
Court decision
Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S.602
(1971) in that they
Provide a
secular service
Are
non-sectarian, able to serve people of
all faiths and those of no religious
faith
Are free
of excessive government and religious
entanglement
Selection and
Training
Chaplains
are individually selected and screened
through a Law Enforcement background
check
They are
trained according to International
Conference of Police Chaplains standards
They
receive additional instruction in
Domestic Violence, Youth Gangs, Missing
and Exploited Children, Violence in
Schools, The Juvenile Justice System and
School Chaplain Protocols (the legal
boundaries within which they must
operate)
They are
under the supervision of the School
Resource Officer and report regularly to
a Senior Chaplain.
What School
Chaplains Do
They give
students their time, friendship, a
listening ear, positive reinforcement,
and occasional casual counseling. They
are also available to assist and / or
counsel staff.
Benefits for
Students and Staff
They
provide temporary counseling for
students until staff counselors are
available. They can provide specialized
services for families of students and /
or staff. They can alert you to special
problems and team with you on student
problems. They provide a casual Law
Enforcement presence and can respond
quickly to emergency needs.
Summary of
Services
They offer
professional assistance, 24/7 emergency
response time, caring and consistent
follow-up, a cooperative effort with staff
and law enforcement on student problems, and
can provide certified critical incident
counseling.
Networking
with faith based and social services
organizations.
Provide
training for school based Critical Incident
Response Teams (e.g., CISM training for
critical incidents which do not require Law
Enforcement intervention)
School
Resource Chaplain Program – In Focus
- An approach concept - not a training curricula.
In Focus
Emotionally
Youth/youth, youth/family relationships
Sensitivity and Diversity
Cross-cultural understanding,
cross-cultural communication, lifestyle
diversity, life view diversity,
religious diversity
In Focus
Physically
SRC
support of the DARE program
Training
with regard to personal responsibility
In Focus
Personally
Self
Confidence reinforcement
Team
projects to reinforce any or all the
above concepts
In Focus
Spiritually
Chaplains
encourage focus team members to
connect or reconnect with
their faith based roots.
