The spirituality in Health Care Network (SHCN) was founded in December 2000, in Toronto, Canada by Yvonne Kason MD and John Rossiter-Thornton MD together with a group of over 50 founding members. SHCN is a non registered, not-for-profit, volunteer organization.

It was unanimously agreed that SHCN would be a bridging network, a forum for spiritually oriented health-care professionals of diverse specialty and training, and spiritual leaders to explore the integration of spiritual traditions and practices into health care.

Our Goals

	To promote supportive dialogue and networking between health-care professionals, therapists, academics, researchers, and clergy of all affliations interested in integrating Spirituality with Psychotherapy and Health Care.
	To provide educational opportunities via informal evening network meetings with speakers from within the network, and with small group discussions.
	To facilitate communications between network members regarding conferences and events of mutual interest via an email newsgroup.
	To honour the network's broad-based spiritual focus by opening and closing meetings with a sacred ritual from diverse spiritual traditions.

Our Board Members

SHCN Executive: Larry Nusbaum MD, Jeannette McCullough RN

SHCN Steering Committee: Eli Bay, Heloisa Porto, John Rossiter-Thornton, MD, Maria Rossiter-Thornton RN,
Sharon CassToole PhD, Brandon L.D. Klayman, Catherine Stone, Barbara Sauve