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Accessibility Adjustments Help

  • Toggle High Contrast

    This button will darken the page's background color to black while making all text white. This high contrast will make it easier to read the website's content.

  • Toggle Page Zoom

    This button will increase the size of all elements on the page.

  • Toggle Focus State

    This button adds a visible focus state to all interactive elements when using the keyboard. This allows the user to know exactly where they are on a site while tabbing through with a keyboard. Note: this will only affect sites that do not currently have visible focus states.

  • Toggle Link Highlights

    This button will add an outline to all links and buttons on a page that a user can interact with.

Accessibility Checker Help

  • Check Images

    This triggers a check of all images on a page for either an 'alt', 'title', or an 'aria-label' attribute. Images that are purely decorative or do not include any information to convey to the user do not need alt text. In these cases, the alt attribute should still be present but should be left empty. Our checker will still flag empty alts as an error just in case.

  • Check Color Contrast

    This triggers a check of all text to ensure that it's color has a high enough contrast against the color of the background it is on. In some cases our checker will flag contrast errors for text that is on top of an image or when either the text or the background element has a position of 'absolute'. In these cases it is up to the site administrator's discretion to determine if the text is legible.

  • Check Links & Buttons

    This triggers a check of all the page's links and buttons. Links and buttons without text or an aria-label describing what the link or button accomplishes will fail. Without text (including hidden screen reader only text) or an aria-label, assistive technology will not be able to determine the purpose of the link/button.

  • Check For Duplicate IDs

    This triggers a search for all IDs on a page. Duplicate IDs will be flagged as an error. Duplicate ID errors are known to cause problems for assistive technologies when they are trying to interact with content. SVGs tend to be a major source of this failure. It's beneficial to remove all IDs from SVGs before placing them on a page.

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For Clergy, Chaplains, and Religious Leaders

ICJS provides interreligious education and networking opportunities to those ministering in diverse communities and institutions.

The 2024 ICJS Faculty Seminar: Interreligious Perspectives on Death and Dying

The 2024 ICJS Faculty Seminar will bring into conversation scholars, chaplains, and spiritual caretakers for an interreligious study and reflection on the broad area of Death and Dying. Participants will present and facilitate sessions on topics that are related to religious traditions other than their own.

July 15-18, 2024
Baltimore, Maryland

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News: ICJS Awards Four Interreligious Capacity-Building Grants for Chaplains

Made possible through the generous support of The Bunting Family Foundation, ICJS has awarded Interreligious Capacity-Building grants to four organizations to help them expand their ability to offer chaplaincy and spiritual care services. The four organizations are The Community of St. Dysmas, Inge Benevolent Ministries, Project SPIRIT Sickle Cell, and University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health.

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The recipients of this year’s micro-grants provide spiritual care to groups that are particularly vulnerable or under-served. We believe these grants will enable them to strengthen and even expand their much-needed services.

Alisha Wimbush

ICJS Program Director for Religious Leaders

Join an ICJS Interreligious Spirituality Group

The ICJS Interreligious Spirituality Group for spiritual care providers and chaplains is a free professional development opportunity to build connections with other spiritual care providers and deepen interreligious learning.
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Survey: Mapping chaplains’ needs in Maryland

In partnership with the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab, ICJS conducted a statewide survey of chaplains in Maryland. The results, which have been published in a downloadable eBook, “Chaplains in Maryland: Mapping and Assessing Needs,” have given us a groundbreaking glimpse into the lives of chaplains. The data reveals a portrait of chaplaincy that spans across religious differences, communities, and work sectors. Maryland chaplains shared their challenges and needs with us, along with the beauty they find in interfaith work. ICJS is committed to serving them, and these results will inform our approaches to future support programming and educational opportunities.

 

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One of the things I love about chaplaincy is there’s so much diversity… most people that I meet are really different from a faith perspective.

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Chaplain Lunch and Learn Events On Demand

Confronting Antisemitism and Islamophobia as Chaplains

In the wake of the conflict in Israel and Gaza, six organizations have created a task force to address growing antisemitism and anti-Muslim bias. During this lunch and learn we heard from the task force about the purpose of their partnership and how they are working to support chaplains and spiritual care providers.  

Spiritual Care for the Grieving

During this Chaplain Lunch and Learn, the panelists identified different forms of loss, how to support grieving care recipients, and the role spirituality and religion can play in navigating individual and collective grief.

Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Perspectives on Spiritual Care

This event featured an interactive discussion with four chaplains from four traditions—Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, and Jewish—to explore how spiritual care is understood and practiced within their contexts. 

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ICJS is an Associate Member of The Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada (ATS), but not an Accredited Member with the ATS Commission on Accrediting.