Chaplain Resource Network
A collaborative initiative providing high-quality, practical training content and tools to help institutions, organizations, and denominations equip chaplains for real-world ministry.
About the Network
The Marsh Institute for Chaplains, Clinical Pastoral Education International, Community Chaplain Network, Hope Thru Faith Foundation, and CAREForce have established the Chaplain Resource Network (CRN), a strategic alliance designed to help institutions, organizations, and denominations equip chaplains with high-quality, practical training resources.
Across the chaplaincy ecosystem, seminaries, denominational leaders, endorsing bodies, and chaplain organizations often face the same bottleneck. The growing demand for chaplains requires consistent, credible training content and specialized expertise.
The Chaplain Resource Network helps close that gap by providing a shared resource hub so training organizations can deliver well-structured, usable content without having to build resources from scratch.
Chaplain Resourcing Reimagined!
Why It Matters?
Faster program build-out
CRN reduces the time it takes to stand up training and educational tracks by providing ready-to-deploy modules and materials.
Flexible packaging
Content is modular and can be combined into certificates, courses, online classes, and CEU-ready learning pathways.
Protected boundaries
Each organization retains its mission and identity, with clear licensing and attribution rules to protect content integrity.
Practical and field-ready
Resources are built for real-world chaplain ministry, usable in cohorts, workshops, online delivery, and organizational training.
Scalable distribution
CRN is structured as a clearinghouse and distribution platform to deliver content across multiple formats, channels, and languages.
Global readiness
The network supports consistent competencies, ethical practice, institutional readiness, multilingual expansion, and contextual delivery in diverse settings.
Resource Library in Development
The the CRN library includes 238 lessons in total, with 40 complete and 198 in development, and more modules to be approved. The network is designed to support chaplain formation in multiple contexts and to provide resources that can be distributed across formats, channels, and languages.
CRN's delivery model is designed to equip and support chaplains in diverse and global settings, helping organizations scale training without sacrificing quality or practical relevance.
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Founding organizations
238
Lessons
198
In Development
From the Founders
A short welcome from CRN
CAREForce has become the Chaplain Resource Network. Same mission, new home, new format, now delivered under the Marsh Institute for Chaplains. Watch this short welcome, then complete your profile.
An AI-generated message from Ken Schlenker, Chaplain Resource Network.
Why complete your profile
You belong here. Tell us who you are and the field you serve, and we will match you to training built for your work. It takes about two minutes, and it personalizes your CEU certificate and serves you in your field and tradition.
Here is what your profile unlocks:
Training matched to your field
From healthcare to public safety to disaster response, your field, role, and formation level match you to the contextualized lesson built for your work.
Field-ready resources and tools
Case studies, spiritual care tools, and resources you can use on shift.
A community who serves where you serve
A space for chaplains in your field, plus a personalized CEU certificate that carries your name, role, and formation level.
Founding access as CRN opens its doors
We honor your field and faith tradition so the care and content we send fit how you serve.
Former CAREForce member? We carry your history forward.
How your profile is used, and why it is needed
We collect your field, role, formation level, CPE status, faith tradition, and goals. We use them to match you to the right contextualized lesson and to personalize your CEU certificate. We use your answers only to serve and inform you. We never sell your information.
What you will complete (about 60 seconds)
- Name and contact
- Field or fields of service
- Role and formation level
- CPE status
- Faith tradition
- Primary goal
- How you connect to CRN
Ready when you are
Take about 60 seconds to tell us your field, role, and tradition. We will match you to training built for your context.
Media Contact
Ken Schlenker, Director
Chaplain Resource Network
Email: [email protected]
For More Information
Dr. Jim Browning, Director
Marsh Institute for Chaplains
Email: [email protected]
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