What We Do
Chaplaincy Services
ViaCordis chaplains are trained professionals who provide confidential caregiving in the workplace by fostering relationships with employees through weekly devotions/prayer invitations, periodic outreach gestures, brief visits, and mobile accessible resources. They seek to provide an environment of safe communication in a non-judgmental and loving environment, offering clients, employees, volunteers and managers spiritual guidance in accordance with their own faith denomination. Most importantly, ViaCordis chaplains seek to build relationships with employees with the hope of gaining permission to share the life-changing Good news of Jesus Christ, in a non-threatening manner.
ViaCordis chaplains are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, for crisis intervention and emergency situations. For emergencies, our commitment is to have a chaplain respond by phone within 30 minutes. Our chaplains provide support and crisis intervention to employees with marital and family problems, substance abuse issues, job stress, financial or legal problems and the general day-to-day issues of life. We make hospital visits for employee and family members as well as officiating at memorials, funerals and other formal occasions. Chaplains also act as a referral source to other professionals and agencies as deemed appropriate and/or necessary.
For all employees and their household members, ViaCordis chaplains provide individual, confidential conversations to discuss a variety of issues, including, but not limited to: marriage, divorce, remarriage, serious illness, death, grief recovery, child-rearing, and care of aging parents. Other conversation topics might be the effects of illnesses, drug and alcohol dependency, anxiety, financial and budgeting matters, mental health issues, spousal or child abuse, work/life balance, and stress management.
When appropriate, and with management approval, ViaCordis chaplains will visit the company’s facility in order to build trust and engage in brief, nonintrusive discussions. Additionally, ViaCordis chaplains will meet with employees during breaks or lunch, as well as before or after an employee’s workday. Extended on-site visits during the regular workday would require a supervisor’s prior approval.
Based on an employee’s request, ViaCordis chaplains will coordinate a neutral place and time for a meeting to discuss an issue or concern. At an employee’s invitation, chaplains can make hospital, nursing home, funeral home, and/or other neutral site visits.
While ViaCordis chaplains are not licensed psychologists, they can provide referral services and coordinate specialized assistance to employees and/or their household members with special needs. Because chaplain efforts are proactive (rather than reactive), they often result in more timely care, circumventing problems before they degenerate into more serious problems. ViaCordis chaplains will refer to other professional services as requested, and connect employees or their household members to needed community services, particularly when issues are related to drug or alcohol dependency and/or psychiatric problems (e.g., Alcoholics Anonymous, Al-Anon, Grief Share, Divorce Care, etc.). At an employee’s request, ViaCordis chaplains will help locate a representative of their religious group. To do so, chaplains liaise with a variety of community faith groups and churches.
So Much More!
ViaCordis chaplains are able to provide public prayer or inspirational remarks for ceremonies or special events as requested (e.g., at a time of crisis or tragedy, Memorial Day, company anniversary, company picnic). ViaCordis chaplains can also provide critical-incident debriefing and ministry following accidents or incidents of violence that affect multiple employees.
When visitation is requested, chaplains are able to make jail visits to employees and/or their household members who are locally incarcerated, provide emotional support, assist the family during times of separation, and recommend community services available to individuals as they transition back to mainstream society.
At the request of an employee or a member of their household, a chaplain may serve as a part of a hospice care team. In addition, chaplains are able to serve on a death-notification team. Some chaplains are available to help plan or conduct funerals and/or conduct on-site memorial services for employees or their immediate family members living with them. Your chaplain is also available to provide follow-up support to the family during their grieving period.
ViaCordis chaplains proactively invest in the wellbeing of the Company and its people by providing resources via a specially designed mobile application to avail marketplace gospel resources and an expansive video resource library, including those available through the RightNow at Work platform.
At Company request, chaplains may provide post-termination care for laid-off or terminated employees in order to foster a smooth transition to another work environment. They may also participate in new employee orientations to explain the Employee Care Service and the role of the Corporate Chaplain.
At Company request, ViaCordis chaplains may advise on matters of morals, ethics and morale as they impact individuals in the work force and the Company.