The Rev. Dr. Dale Alan Young, Board Certified Healthcare Chaplain

 

Dr. Dale Young is the Founder and Director of Congregational Health, a faith-health partnership between Baptist Health South Florida and over 170 faith communities of all denominations.  Dr. Young served as the chaplain at Miami Children’s Hospital and as a staff chaplain at Baptist Hospital of Miami before developing the Congregational Health partnership.

 

Dr. Young developed and taught training workshops on congregation-based health ministries, spiritual assessment models, and the spirituality of baby boomers. Dr. Young was awarded a grant to develop a training program for facilitators of bereavement support in faith communities. This multicultural and cross-faiths peer group support model has trained hundreds of grief support facilitators. Dr. Young has implemented this training model in Asia, Latin America, and Florida following natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, and tsunamis.

Dr. Young researched baby boomer spirituality for his doctoral thesis. He received his Doctor in Ministry from the Florida Center for Theological Studies in 2009.

The South Florida Business Journal honored his program with the 2004 Excellence in Healthcare award in the non-profit category.

Rev. Young was awarded a scholarship to represent the Association of Professional Chaplains at the “International Congress of Pastoral Care and Counseling” (August 2004) in Bangalore, India.

In 2006, Lutheran Disaster Relief awarded Dr. Young a grant to conduct culturally appropriate grief support programs in Sri Lanka following the Tsunami. He has since returned to Sri Lanka five times for additional workshops that have trained over 120 peer group grief facilitators.

In 2006, The Health Foundation South Florida awarded Rev. Young $10,000 as one of three finalists for the Concern Award.

2013. The Alliance For Aging honored Dr. Young with its President’s Award.

Dr. Young received the “Clergy of the Year Award” from the South Florida Rabbinical Association in June 2013.

 

Books Published

How to take your Spiritual Temperature: 10 Dimensions of Spirituality-- from Angst to Joy

Como Tomar La Temperatura Espiritual: 10 Dimensiones de tu espiritualidad, desde la angustia a la Alegria.

Comforting Those Who Mourn: Global Stories from the Strange Land of Grief

Consolando a los que están en duelo: Historias globales desde la extraña tierra del dolor.

The Spiritual Temperature Companion Workbook: A Personal Transformation Journey into Ten Dimensions of Spirituality.

Navigating a return to happiness: A roadmap through my journey of grief.