Earn your Basic Chaplain Certificate or Advanced Chaplain Certificate by completing 3 required courses and 2 elective courses. You can enroll at any time in these self-paced courses. Your tuition includes all books and individual instruction. Enrolling in the Basic or Advanced training programs is the cheapest option and tuition is split over 4 monthly payments.
Students have up to 90 days to complete each course but can be granted a 30-day extension on a case-by-case basis. If you enroll in the Basic Chaplain Certificate program, you will have up to 16 months to complete all 5 courses. Students who take courses individually will earn between 5 to 8 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) per course which can be applied to the Basic or Advanced Chaplain Training Certificate programs.Â
Your instructor will provide weekly, individual feedback on all completed assignments in each module. Except for Clinical Pastoral Education, all other courses are self-paced and delivered in an easy-to-use and highly interactive cloud-based Learning Management System. You can review each course content outline by visiting our Learning Management System page at:
https://chaplaintrainingacademy.talentlms.com/catalog
To enroll in any course, click on the course hyperlink below to pay your tuition. Some of the courses are currently being built into our Learning Management System. Send us an email and request to be notified of our upcoming course schedule or check back here for the (Enroll Now) link.
BASIC CHAPLAIN CERTIFICATE – REQUIRED COURSES (3)
CTA 5100: Foundations of Chaplaincy (Enroll Now)
CTA 5200: Spiritual and Pastoral Care Skills in Chaplaincy (Enroll Now)
CTA 5300: Crisis and Trauma Care (Enroll Now)
BASIC & ADVANCED CERTIFICATE – ELECTIVE COURSES (Choose 2)
CTA 5400: Principles of Self-Care (Enroll Now)
CTA 5700: Suicide Intervention (Enroll Now)
CTA 5800: Palliative Care and the Caregiver’s Heart (Enroll Now)
CTA 6100: Principles of Resilient Ministry(Enroll Now)
CTA 6200: Chaplains and Burnout (Available June 2025)
CTA 6300: Moral Injury and Soul Care (Available November 2025)
ADVANCED CHAPLAIN CERTIFICATE – REQUIRED COURSES (3)
CTA 5500: Professional Chaplain Competencies (Enroll Now)
CTA 5600: Distance Learning Clinical Pastoral Education (Half-Unit) (Enroll Now)
CTA 6400: Principles of Resilient Leadership (Available March 2026)