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American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®
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The Florida Clergy End-of-Life Education Enhancement Project: A description and evaluation

David Abrams

The Hospice Foundation of America, Miami, Florida

Sonya Albury, MSW

Health Council of South Florida, Inc, Miami, Florida

Lee Crandall, PhD

Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida

Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, MDiv

The College of New Rochelle, The Hospice Foundation of America, New Rochelle, New York

Robert Harris

Health Council of South Florida, Inc, Miami, Florida

The Florida Clergy End-of-Life Education Enhancement Project was a model program developed to provide an interdenominational and statewide model of clergy education on loss, grief, dying, and death. The authors describe the project including materials and curriculum as well as present data from the project’s evaluation.

Clergy and their partners in ministry responded enthusiastically to the project. As a whole, they reported higher levels of knowledge on end-of-life (EOL) issues at the conclusion of the training. Clergy and their ministerial teams also reported that they were better informed about the technical, procedural, medical, and legal issues that arise at the end of life and expressed the desire for subsequent training. The project indicates that clergy both recognize the need for additional training and are anxious to improve their abilities to minister to the dying and bereaved. The model presented here could easily be applied to local organizations such as hospices or denominational training.

Key Words: end-of-life education • hospice • clergy • curriculum • grief therapy

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®, Vol. 22, No. 3, 181-187 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/104990910502200306
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