“Part of the ‘Diakon difference,’” says the Rev. Rhoda M. Toperzer, ACPE Associate Supervisor and director of the Diakon Clinical Pastoral Education program, “is the diversity of training settings we offer. A chaplain may sit with someone in a senior living community who has cognitive difficulties, spending meaningful time with someone who will not remember him or her later, and then also listen to the grief-stricken and weary spouse, son, or daughter, worried about ‘abandoning’ their loved one simply in response to their own needs to eat and sleep, work or to be a parent. In addition to this type of setting, a Diakon chaplain can also help a youth who never knew his mother’s care because her drug habit got in the way.”
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