About Us
Disaster Chaplaincy Services is a nonprofit, nonsectarian organization whose purpose is to assure skilled and appropriate interdisciplinary spiritual care for all people affected by disasters in the New York tri-state area. We do this by recruiting, screening, orienting, training, educating, deploying and supervising chaplains on behalf of the religious communities of the tri-state region.
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Deployments
DCS has a chaplain on call twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, and three hundred sixty five days a year: a specialist trained in spiritual response and disaster intervention is always available. As soon as we become aware of an emergency situation, our first responder is...
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Educational Resources
DISASTER SPIRITUAL CARE Practical Clergy Responses to Community, Regional and National Tragedy Edited by Rabbi Stephen B. Roberts and Rev. Willard W.C. Ashley, Sr., DMin, DH The first comprehensive resource for pastoral care in the face of disaster and the definitive...
Read MoreOur volunteer corps is made up of 150 chaplains representing 28 faith traditions and come from a diversity of ethnic backgrounds speaking 30 different languages.
DCS continuously and proactively seeks out new partnerships with faith traditions and communities, traditional first-responding and other disaster-relief organizations and professional, skilled volunteers.