1. SOCIAL JUSTICE AND CHAPLAINCY

2. PROGRSSION OF PRESENTATION
What is Social Justice?
Is social justice part of chaplaincy?
Differences and similarities of institutional venue and agency/street venue
Lens through which to view
Assessment tools inclusive of social justice
Spiritual needs assessment
Chaplain responses
ROADBLOCKS

3. Social Justice: What is it
Social Justice: What is it? Karl Rahner: social, constitutive of being human Justice: right relationships – being with a person or community in their coming to right relationship with God, self, and others Trinity, wholeness invitational model of relationships in non-hierarchial manner. R. Rohr

4. When is one/community not in good health and out of right relationships
Bound by physical pain, emotional pain, spiritual pains of abandonment, violation, isolation, and sometimes of ideologies that suppress and treat others as less than….
In poverty, victims of abuse and other violences, oppression of others through domination, disdain, superiority behaviors and self-concepts….

5. Question: Is there ever a setting when health care is not important Health of a person is about wholeness, coherence of one’s physical, emotional, social, spiritual self.
CHAPLAINCY is the art of walking with others through reality into freedom and wholeness.

6. INSTITUTIONAL AGENCY/ STREET
CASE MANAGERS, SOCIAL WORKERS, VOLUNTEERS
FOOD PANTRIES, SHELTERS, RESIDENTIAL KITCHENS
MULTIPLE CARING PEOPLE
INCONSISTENCIES OF SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED AND TIME-BOUND
LITTLE OVERALL PRIVACY
INSURED BY OBAMACARE OR NONE
HAVE SOME PROFESSED FAITHFUL
FEAR OF VIOLENCE, BUILD COMMUNITY
HAVE DREAMS, HOPES AND CARE
NURSES, AIDS, DOCTORS, INTERNS
CASE MANAGERS, SOCIAL WORKERS
IDENTIFIED CHAPLAINS
NUTRITION – MEALS,SNACKS
ACCESS WHILE THERE
MULTIPLE CARING PEOPLE
OFTEN PRIVACY IS AVIALABLE
SOME INSURED BY COMPANIES
FEAR OF VIOLENT WORLD, OFTEN LIVE MORE INDIVIDUALISTIC
HAVE DREAMS, HOPES, CARE

7. CHANGE OF LENS THROUGH WHICH WE VIEW
WHOLE PERSON ASSESSMENT IN ANY ARENA
that INCLUDES SOCIAL JUSTICE INVOLVES
CONTEXT OF THEIR LIVING SITUATION
RELATIONAL DYNAMICS – AS THEY EXPERIENCE THEM
ECONOMIC REALITIES
THEIR SPIRIT IN THE MIDST
THE CARE-PROVIDER’S OWN SOCIAL DYNAMICS
WORLD EVENTS IMPACTING THE PERSON
REFLECTION ON OUR OWN MARGINALIZATION OF OTHERS
REFLECTION ON OUR BEING MARGINALIZED TODAY
POWER IN THE RELATIONSHIP AND IN OTHERS’ LIFE AS AN AGENT OF DECISIONS

8. ASSESSMENT TOOLS INCLUSIVE OF SOCIAL CRISIS‘
MENATLITIES – SCARCITY OR ABUNDANCE
ASSET BASED
GRIEF
SUFFERING

9. SCARCITY MENTALITY CREATES SCARCITY FEAR
FEAR OF RETALIATION BELIEF IN COMPETITION FEAR OF ABANDONMENT
AS A WAY OF SURVIVAL
PERCEIVED ATTACK PERCEIVED LACK
I AM/YOU ARE IN DANGER/ SUFFERING I AM/YOUR ARE/ THERE
IT’S DANGEROUS IS NOT ENOUGH
DESTRUCTION
ATTACKING SELF-DEFEATING
BEHAVIORS BEHAVIORS
JUDGING OTHERS ANGER DESPAIR JUDGING SELF

10. LOVE CREATES ABUNDANCE
ABUNDANCE MENTALITY
LOVE CREATES ABUNDANCE
ACCEPTANCE FAITH IN BEYOND TRUST
INTERDEPENDENCE
PERCEIVED WHOLENESS PERCEIVED SAFETY
I AM/YOU ARE/THERE IS JOY I AM.YOU ARE, IT’S SAFE
EMOUGH
ABUNDANCE
CREATION
GENEROUS BEHAVIOR CREATING RISK TAKING BEHAVIOR
GIVING OF SELF EXTENDING SELF
FORGIVING SELF SERENITY FREEDOM FORGIVING OTHERS

11. ASSET-BASED APPROACH McKnight and Kretzman
Looking for the asset and not focusing on the outer
An affirming rather than a derogatory approach
Empowering in potential for self identity change
GRIEF -- beyond physical death loss (e.g. of respect, community, voice, power, ….)
SUFFERING -- diminishment of self-in-relationship to self, God, others.

12. CHAPLAIN/CARING PRACTITIONER RESPONSES CARE-FILLED LISTENING
TO PERSON BEYOND PRESENTED SITUATION
(What is this person telling me about her/himself/them)
TO SELF PERSPECTIVE AND FRAME OF REFERENCES
(Am I aware of my mentality and what I project onto the
other?)
EMPATHIC CONNECTION sans preaching and judgment
TO SYSTEMS that impact the other and self
BE AWARE OF DYNAMICS OF POWER – how to walk with
other in their empowerment

13. COMPASSION AND HOSPITALITY
BASIC GOSPEL MESSAGE – welcome the stranger,
love your brothers and sisters, care with all
BE UNAFRAID of
what others will think, of risks, of
your own reputations it is for the common good
while being wise and faithful walkers with others
into freedom and wholeness – yours and theirs.

14. ROAD BLOCKS TO SOCIAL JUSTICE CHAPLAINCY
MY OWN DISCONNECT OF FAITH/SPIRITUALITY BELIEFS AND ACTION
LACK OF APPRECIATING MY PARTICIPATION as GOD’S IMAGE IN THE HEALING OF THE SOCIAL WOUNDS OF OUR DAY created by a mentality of some better than others, more valuable than others, money and success over people, individualism, et cetera.
A PASTORAL IDENTITY that limits one’s functioning beyond prayer
OTHER?