Project: Campus Ministry
The goals of the AFCC is ensure that every chiropractic student, who are baptized Catholics and any who desire it, the same opportunity as all other Catholic healthcare students to have access to the pastoral care information and teachings of the teachings Church, as it relates to health care.

As a practitioner, educator and consultant I, along with our board and advisors, feel there is a void in our profession for Catholics regarding integration of our philosophical, business and spiritual roles.

Changing roles of providers
Today there is an experimental educational grant given to group of medical colleges for them to offer in their curriculum the role of spirituality as it relates to patient care. Also Harvard Medical School Continuing Education offers continuing educational courses to physicians in the role of spirituality and health using the religio-socio-pysco-biological model of patient care. Though these are unique and needed, this is not what we are seeking of our educational institutions. Yet this issues should to be address in the curriculum.

Chiropractic Colleges are unique places of higher learning and have an important role in serving the common good of society. It is, therefore, it the best interest of society to assist our students in preparing them to take on their important roles as healthcare providers. One facet that can not be overlooked, but does not come under the functions of a chiropractic educational institution, is the integration of one's faith.

There are well known Catholic Universities that have health care programs such as nursing, physical therapy, and medicine & dentistry, but as of yet, have no chiropractic programs. Since there are no Catholic chiropractic colleges and no Chiropractic Colleges that have clubs or on Campus Ministries programs that support their Catholic students population, it is the purpose of the AFCC to offers such assistance, until now.

Chiropractic Colleges have had no Catholic Ministry
The majority of substantial colleges in the US have on campus ministries or Newman Centers; chiropractic colleges do not. We do not suggest that chiropractic colleges do the same, but are requesting they provide the opportunities for their students. What we need is a cooperative effort from the presidents and dean of students of each Chiropractic College.

What each college president, or dean needs to do the following:
1) Appoint a liaison-in- charge to post in a permanent conspicuous place the newsletters and information from the AFCC and applications so students may partake of the information and resources on a timely and regular bases; and

2) Assist us in obtaining a Catholic faculty advisor to coordinate the pastoral care info that we will obtain and make available from the local bishop in the colleges' diocese; and

3) Provide similar opportunities for students to form a local chapter as they do other clubs. Health Care in Catholicism is a ministry in which the institution represents the Church's social, ethical, and moral teachings.

A Health Care worker, who is Catholic [which includes chiropractors], represents individually the Church and their personal committed to their faith. It is the responsibility of the AFCC in assisting the Church to offer the pastoral care necessary to chiropractic students to succeed in their call to service humankind.

What the AFCC will do for Student Chapters
Offer student memberships with general membership benefits Assistance in forming a student Chapter, and locate a chiropractor/professor advisor.

Offer models of volunteer ministry to contact places for charity work.
Assist students, with a Catholic faculty advisor, to obtain from their local bishop an appointed spiritual director for each college, either from the local parish, bishops' office, or religious institutions.

Call for Chapter in your College