Spiritual care and education
When a child or teen is hospitalized, it creates many challenges for them and their community.
Chaplains are available to meet with patients and their loved ones, to provide a support that meets their individual spiritual and emotional needs.
For some, this might mean making use of one’s faith, prayer, scripture, or sacraments. It might also mean engaging in conversation on one’s struggle to feel the presence of God at a time when God can seem distant. Regardless of whether someone has or does not have a faith affiliation, chaplains can provide a safe space to engage in meaning making and process one’s connection to self, others, nature, or the world.
The Spiritual Care and Education team at Children's Health℠ can meet religious and spiritual needs for prayer or ritual, provide copies of scriptures from various religious traditions, offer blessings at significant moments, provide one-on-one support, engage in spiritual play with age-appropriate activities, or arrange visits from a religious leader of one’s specific faith tradition.
Through our commitment to diversity and inclusion at Children's Health, our team provides for patients and families of any religion, faith tradition, or connection to something greater themselves. We offer one-on-one support, counseling, traditional rites, prayers, and spiritual play with age-appropriate stories and activities.
Center for spirituality of children
When a child is hospitalized, that child’s world is changed forever. We are honored to provide a hopeful, spiritual presence for children and their families at one of the most vulnerable times in their lives. Learn more.
Chapel and worship services
For those seeking comforting inspiration, the Haggerty Chapel at Children’s Health Children’s Medical Center Dallas and the Abbott Chapel at Children’s Health Children’s Medical Center Plano are available 24 hours a day.
Bereavement care program
The purpose of bereavement care is to support patients, families and staff members in their process of grief and at all stages of dying: before, during and after death.
Clinical pastoral education and volunteer program
Clinical pastoral education
Children’s Health applies its role as a leading teaching hospital in North Texas to its Spiritual Care and Education Department as well.
Volunteer ministry program
Our volunteer ministry program began in 1999 from a need to reach out to the growing number of patients and families being treated in the Emergency Department (ED) and First Care clinic.
Contact your spiritual care and education team
Our chaplains are available to aid children, families and staff on-site, 24 hours a day.
- Dallas: 214-456-2822 (ext. 62822)
- Plano: 469-303-2822 (ext. 32822)
If you wish to contact a specific chaplain or care team member, you may call the operator and have them paged.