Standing up a chaplaincy program at a mid-size agency
A step-by-step account of moving from "we should have a chaplain" to a credentialed corps deployed across 3 shifts — MOU, recruitment, training, deployment, and Year-1 metrics.
Case Studies
Programs built, doors that opened.
Detailed case studies of Dr. Mzizi's program design and consultation work with public-safety agencies — published with agency permission, coming throughout 2026.
Critical incident response in a rural department
How a small-town department's chaplain corps was reorganized after a line-of-duty death exposed gaps in deployment, peer-support coordination, and family liaison.
Multi-faith chaplain corps in a major metro
How a major metropolitan agency built a multi-faith chaplain corps across Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and humanist traditions — governance, training, and conflict resolution.
Why these take time to publish
A chaplaincy case study is not a testimonial. Writing one honestly means describing what was missing before the work started, which is a difficult thing for an agency to put its name to — particularly when the gap was exposed by a death. Every study on this page is written with the agency, reviewed by them, and published only with explicit permission.
Identifying detail is removed as a matter of course. Officers, families, and incidents are described only to the extent needed to explain what the program had to change, and never in a way that would let a reader work out who was involved. Where an agency prefers to remain unnamed entirely, the study runs unattributed.
What each study covers
The shape is consistent: what the agency had before, what event or pressure made the gap visible, what was changed across governance, training, deployment and supervision, and what could actually be measured a year later. They are written for the person who has been handed a chaplaincy program and needs to see how someone else did it.
They are accounts, not instructions. The frameworks behind the changes described — the ethical boundaries, the role definition, the critical-incident protocols — are set out properly in Chaplain with a Badge. Agencies wanting to run the same process can start with the program starter kit or the maturity assessment.
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