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Multifaith Competency Screening Certification: How To Obtain a Certificate* Or Renew**  [For Application Click here : Form/kit]

*The Canadian Multifaith Federation (CMF) provides a service that ensures Spiritual and Religious Care Providers (Chaplains) have sufficient knowledge and experience to provide and coordinate spiritual care and religious services in a multifaith setting. A competency process has been developed to enable candidates to demonstrate their knowledge of multifaith issues and their ability in working with persons from diverse faith backgrounds.  .... More details

• CMF – CERTIFICATION – APPLICANT HANDBOOK [pdf] [A typed copy is required; if it helps, please ask for a word file]

​NOTE: There is a processing fee of $250.00 which must accompany the candidate’s application.
Along with the application the candidate must submit a current resume, and a currently valid police clearance certificate.
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**Renewal of your Competency Certificate. Ask: omcsrc@omc.ca

Readings (@ the CMF Library; access is by membership only):

• The art of spiritual guidance. a contemporary approach to growing in the spirit Gratton, Carolyn. 
• Dance of the Spirit. The Seven Steps of Women’s Spirituality Harris, Maria. 
• How to be a perfect stranger : a guide to etiquette in other people’s religious ceremonies  
• Multifaith Information Manual. An authoritative guide to religious rights and accommodations, 6th ed. Toronto, Canadian Multifaith Federation, 2017   Product details and order form
• Pastoral counseling across cultures. Augsburger, David W. 
• Spiritual Questions for the Twenty-First Century. Essays in Honor of Joan D. Chittister Chittister, Joan D. Maryknoll, 
• Spiritual Assessment. Handbook for Helping Professionals Hodge, David R. Botsford
• Caring for Dying People of Different Faiths: Rabbi Julia Neuberger
• The World’s religions. Smith, Huston.
• Human resources guide to the duty to accommodate / Barbara G. Humphrey. 
• Religious Diversity and Human Rights, Irene Bloom

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Advertisements:
The Canadian Multifaith Federation (CMF) advertises spiritual & religious care/chaplaincy and related employment opportunities. Contact us for advertisement.

Current Job Openings:

CMF JOB's : TWO POSITIONS AVAILABLE to work in a City of Toronto Long Term Care Homes as

• • Spiritual and Religious Care Coordinator, Part time – approx. 14 to 21 hours/week
  • An on-call Spiritual and Religious Care Provider, as needed for fill-in [details]

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Recent Job Ads:

• CMF Job: Multiculturalism Project Officer, Canada Summer Job
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• ​The Ministry of the Solicitor General, Centre East Correctional Centre, seeks a Duty Chaplain. 
• Vitalité Health Network ...affichage de poste au NB - Spiritual Care / soins spirituels
• Spiritual Care Provider (2 positions),  Peterborough Regional Health Centre 
• Spiritual Health Practitioner, St. Joseph's Health Centre, Sudbury
• Duty Chaplain, at  Thunder Bay   Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services, Quote: Job ID 126175, 
• Spiritual Health Practitioner, St. Joseph's Health Centre, Sudbury
• Duty Chaplain (Job ID 123238) - Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services

              Other Website to check: 
Canadian Association of Spiritual Care

Professional Development/Educational opportunities:

•  The 2021 Ottawa Region Charity & Not-for-Profit Law Webinar Hosted by:  Carters Professional Corporation Date:  Thursday, February 11, 2021 Time:  9:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Details:  Brochure and Online Registration available at: https://www.carters.ca/index.php?page_id=155
  

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Recent Professional Development Ads:

• The 2020 Ottawa Region Charity & Not-for-Profit Law Seminar.  Hosted by:  Carters Professional Corporation.   February 13, 2020, at Centurion Conference and Event Center, Ottawa
• ​Ottawa Region Charity & Not-for-Profit Law Seminar - Hosted by Carters Professional Corporation on Thursday, February 16, 2019 at Centurion Conference and Event Center, Ottawa.
• 25th Annual Church and Charity™ Law Seminar; Hosted by Carters Professional Corporation, Thursday November 8 2018 at PORTICO Community Church, Mississauga
• The 24th Annual Church and Charity Law Seminar, is hosted by: Carters Professional Corporation,  at PORTICO Community Church, Mississauga, Ontario.
• First International Conference on Humanizing Health Care: Enhancing Lives. Transforming Care—Bruyère Continuing Care Conference. The conference will be at the Fairmont Château Laurier, downtown Ottawa, Canada.
• HealthCare Chaplaincy Network’s 4th Annual Caring for the Human Spirit(R) Conference, Chicago, IL
• Ottawa Region Charity & Not-for-Profit Law Seminar on Thursday, February 16, 2017. Hosted by: Carters Professional Corporation
• Online Support Tools from the Canadian Virtual Hospice
• The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC), Nipissing University and Canadian Multifaith Federation (CMF) :Training on the OHRC Policy on preventing discrimination based on creed .
• RENEW at Knox College, Toronto,
• Annual – Church & Charity Law Seminar
• Survey: Religion & Science Research Study, York Univ.,
• Montreal’s  3rd global conference on World’s Religions After September 11: From Faith to Interfaith to discuss critical issues of faith in today’s world.
• Call for Nominations for Bereavement Authority of Ontario Faith-Based Advisory Committee
• Muslim Studies at Emmanuel College, Emmanuel College is a theological college of Victoria University in the University of Toronto.
• Online Restorative Justice Certificate, at Simon Fraser University
• Collaborate and learn with healthcare colleagues and renowned international speakers at the 6th Annual Spirituality and Health Summer Institute, Washington, DC.
• Conference: Touch in Counselling and Spiritual Care: Organized by The School of Counselling, Psychotherapy and Spirituality, Saint Paul University and The Ontario Northeast Region of the Canadian Association for Spiritual Care, Saint Paul University, Ottawa