Working templates for the field.

How to use these

Every document here started as something Dr. Mzizi wrote for a real agency that had asked for it. They are working drafts, not finished policy: the bracketed sections exist because your jurisdiction, your command structure, and your counsel have to fill them in. A template adopted without that work will not survive its first test.

Take them in the order your programme needs them. An agency with nothing in place usually starts with the MOU and the code of ethics, because those two settle scope and confidentiality before anyone is deployed. A programme that already exists on paper but has never been stress-tested is better served by the maturity assessment first, which will tell you which gap to close next.

Where these stop

These are maps of the territory. They tell you what to put in place and why it matters, not how to carry out the ministry once you are standing in it. The reasoning behind each framework — the role boundaries, the ethics in practice, the critical-incident work, and the standards a mature programme is measured against — is the subject of Chaplain with a Badge, and the framing sits across the in-depth guides.