Northern California

East Bay
365 Lennon Ln, Suite 140
Walnut Creek, CA 94598
Tel : (925)-930-9373

Sacramento
3841 North Freeway Blvd, Suite 210
Sacramento, CA 95834

San Francisco Bay
39899 Balentine Drive, Suite 161
Newark, CA 94560
510-438-9602

With three hospice programs in the Northern California area, VITAS cares for 1,000-plus patients and families in this ethnically diverse area and offers the opportunity for ministering to people from many different cultural and religious backgrounds. Students may be placed in any of the three VITAS programs, each offering several clinical settings for spiritual care: visiting in private homes, nursing homes, assisted living facilities and inpatient hospice units.

CPE students function as chaplains and members of a hospice interdisciplinary team. They are supervised not only by the CPE program but by the VITAS management team and mentor-chaplains. Verbatim reports of pastoral visits are presented along with VITAS documentation. Seminars focus on palliative care, family systems and theological reflection through the use of stories, interpersonal relationships, grief dynamics, etc. Individual and group supervision fosters personal and professional growth.

Tuition: $500. A $100 deposit fee is required upon acceptance to hold a place in the program. The deposit is applied to the total tuition.