Welcome to Chaplain Resourcing Reimagined.
A working look inside the Chaplain Resource Network - our governance foundation, our curriculum standard in action, and the media that tells the story. Everything below is built once and made ready to deploy everywhere chaplains serve.
Why this preview exists
One Standard. Reviewed Together.
Before a lesson ever reaches a chaplain in the field, it passes through a shared foundation: clear governance, a rigorous instructional standard, and a subject-matter-expert review. This page walks partners and reviewers through that foundation using a single real example - our Moral Injury lesson - alongside the video standard and governance documents that make every CRN lesson trustworthy.
Foundation
Governance
The documents below define how CRN operates as a strategic alliance - the commitments each founding organization has made to one another, and to every chaplain who will eventually learn from this material.
Gratitude Video (AI Clone)
A personal word of thanks to the partners and reviewers making this network possible, presented via AI-clone video.
Watch VideoHow a Lesson Is Built
A behind-the-scenes walkthrough of CRN's lesson production process, from research brief to finished video case study.
Watch VideoCovenant
The founding agreement between CRN's partner organizations - the commitments, boundaries, and shared purpose that hold the network together.
View CovenantcrainEOS Public Overview
A branded overview of the operating system behind CRN's content production and delivery.
Read OverviewCourse Catalog
The current catalog of CRN courses and modules - complete, in development, and planned.
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Suicide Risk: Standing in the Gap
Recognize the warning signs, ask the direct question, and make a warm handoff to the right help.
Read MoreMoral Injury in Care
Name the moral weight a caregiver carries and respond with presence, not a fix.
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See the standard in action
Moral Injury: A Complete Lesson Example
Rather than describe our lesson standard in the abstract, we invite you to walk through it. Moral injury is one of the most difficult realities a chaplain will encounter in the field - and it's a clear window into how CRN builds evidence-grounded, field-ready training from the research brief all the way to the student handout.
Host Intro
The short opening video that frames the lesson for the learner before the material begins.
Watch IntroCase Dramatization
A cinematic, modeled chaplain encounter - the presence, the questions, the response, the repair - shown, not just described.
Watch SceneMoral Injury Lesson
The finished, interactive lesson as a chaplain-in-training would experience it - outcomes, video encounter, and takeaway together.
Launch LessonResearch Brief
The cited, frozen research foundation this lesson is built from - nothing in the lesson goes beyond what this brief supports.
Read BriefCase Study Story Arc
The subject-matter-expert-reviewed narrative arc behind the dramatization - how a real-world scenario becomes a teaching case.
View Story ArcStudent Handout
The practical, downloadable takeaway a chaplain keeps and uses in the field after finishing this lesson.
View HandoutInstructional design reference
Standard: Video Case Study
The dramatized encounters in every CRN lesson aren't produced by instinct - they follow a documented realism and communication standard, so a chaplain watching the scene can trust that what they see reflects how people actually express distress, and how a chaplain actually responds.
Emotion Expression & Nonverbal Communication Reference
The internal reference used to keep emotional expression and nonverbal communication authentic across every dramatized encounter.
View ReferenceResearch-Grounded Encounter Realism Standard
The documented standard that ties every case dramatization back to cited research, so realism never comes at the expense of accuracy.
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Media Contact
Ken Schlenker, Director
Chaplain Resource Network
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Dr. Jim Browning, Director
Marsh Institute for Chaplains
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