Spiritual Care Services

If you’re a clergy member or a spiritual care provider, share your compassion, support, and sensitivity with patients and their families. Become a member of the volunteer Spiritual Care Services team at Montage Health’s Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula.

Role of chaplain volunteers

As a volunteer chaplain, you will:

  • Provide compassionate, respectful support to patients and their families, helping them draw on spiritual, religious, cultural, and philosophical resources to cope with an illness, treatment decisions, and healing
  • Offer spiritual care that preserves the dignity of each patient
  • Serve as a liaison with local faith communities
  • Provide grief and bereavement support, on-call crisis support, and (with special training) visit assigned hospital units consistently
  • Suggest resources for treatment decision making

Volunteer requirements

To be eligible, you must:

  • Represent a specific faith tradition and a local congregation
  • Be formally educated, licensed, or ordained in your tradition
  • Be in good standing in the local faith community
  • Have experience in a hospital or healthcare setting or relevant education, such as clinical pastoral education (CPE) credits

Tradition-specific volunteers

If you are a tradition-specific chaplain or volunteer lay leader (such as a Eucharistic minister, Stephen minister, or missionary), you may visit patients who have requested tradition-specific pastoral, ritual, or sacramental support. You must provide:

  • Proof of your pastoral credentials (training and supervision)
  • Letter of recommendation from a leader of your local faith community and their yearly confirmation of your continued appointment to serve in your role

Chaplain hours

Chaplains are available to patients and families Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., excluding holidays. On-call chaplains are available for emergency needs at all other times.

For current volunteers

Sign in to access resources for volunteer chaplains on the Volgistics website using your account name and password.

Become a volunteer chaplain

Fill out our Spiritual Care Services volunteer form online. For more information, contact Spiritual Care Services at (831) 622-2892.

Upcoming Classes & Events

Explore our classes and events—most are free to the community.

  • Apr
    14
    Tuesday
    Social media and teen mental health
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    Empower your teenager to navigate the digital world in healthy and positive ways. This free class provides insights into how parents can support their teens in using social media wisely.
  • Apr
    14
    Tuesday
    Advance healthcare planning
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    Join this in-person workshop on planning for and talking about what you want when it comes to serious illness and end-of-life care. Taking these steps now will reduce stress later and allow your choices to be honored.
  • Apr
    16
    Thursday
    Intuitive eating
    2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    Learn from a registered dietitian about evidence-based, non-diet, and weight-inclusive approaches to improving relationships with food and body.
  • Apr
    17
    Friday
    Prevención de la Diabetes — Preventing diabetes (Spanish language class)
    1:45 PM - 2:45 PM
    Esta clase está diseñada para dirigirse a individuos que están en riesgo de desarrollar prediabetes o diabetes, o al público en general que simplemente desea aprender más sobre la diabetes.

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