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as a professional chaplain as a Board Certified Chaplain (BCC) through the APC (Association of Professional Chaplains). He is a Certified Educator Candidate in the ACPE (Association of Clinical Pastoral Education) under the supervision of the Rev. Debra Slade, ACPE Certified Educator at Norwalk Hospital. Debra and Eric offer the only ACPE units specially designed to address the unique correctional environment. Reverend Dr. Charles Williams is the director of religious services for the Connecticut DOC. He has worked for the DOC for over 18 years and is a Certified Correctional Supervisor. In 2009, he earned his Doctor of Ministry Degree with a dissertation on “Spirituality and Addiction Recovery in Prison.” He has been an ACA member since 2004 and serves on the Substance Use Disorder Committee, the Ethics Committee and the Legal Issues Committee. Rev. Williams is also the vice president of the American Correctional Chaplains Association. 

students disciplines of self-aware- ness and self-care that support chaplains emotional resiliency in the face of suffering. CPE also aims to impart to students the internal ability to self-supervise and a mindset that embraces learning as a life-long en- deavor. Chaplains who can maintain hope, resilience and open hearts while also respecting correctional boundaries and common sense will be able to play a significant transfor- mational role in their departments. Over time, if these high-functioning chaplains are given more authority to impact the cultures of correctional facilities, they will be able to recast human dignity as an actionable— and life-saving—principle, no longer a far off or too often unrealizable ideal goal.

ENDNOTES 1 Charles Williams describes chaplains’ difficult work of in The Neutral Zone in which they offer care to inmates one moment and officers the next. Williams, Charles. 2019. The Neutral Zone. Corrections Today , 81(3):8-10. Alexandria, VA: ACA Press. (May/June). 2 A unit of CPE comprises 400 hours, “a minimum of 100 hours of structured group and individual education and a minimum of 250 hours of supervised clinical practice in spiritual care.” https://www.manula.com/manuals/ acpe/acpe-manuals/2016/en/topic/defining-a-unit- or-a-half-unit-of-cpe?q=300+hours 3 Hemenway, Joan E. 1996. Inside the Circle: A Historical and Practical inquiry Concerning Process Groups in Clinical Pastoral Education , pp. 3-25. Decatur: Journal of Pastoral Care Publications, Inc. Rev. Eric Jeuland has been a chaplain for the Connecticut Department of Correction and a member of ACA and ACCA (American Correctional Chaplains Association) for five years. He has nine years’ experience working

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