Field Education Sites

Approximately 100 accredited field education sites are affiliated with HDS and are open to MDiv and MTS students. These sites have agreed to our policies, and generally also have an onsite supervisor who has attended a yearlong training course in supervision.

Students contact sites directly to explore their interest in an organization for summer and academic year placements, and arrange for onsite interviews at the beginning of the field education placement process.

At the beginning of each academic year, the Office of Ministry Studies hosts a site fair for field education settings.

Agency

  • Boston Rescue Mission
  • Boston Theological Interreligious Consortium
  • Center to Support Immigrant Organizing (CSIO)
  • Chaplains on the Way
  • Eastie Farm
  • First Church in Cambridge, Congregational - Shelter
  • FriendshipWorks
  • Gould Farm Boston Area Program
  • Greater Boston Interfaith Organization
  • GreenFaith
  • Here to Hear Chaplaincy Project (formerly Boston Interfaith Chaplains)
  • Institute for Peace Studies in Eastern Christianity
  • InterPlay Northeast
  • Mosaic: Interfaith Youth Action
  • NAHCA (North American Hindu Chaplains Association)
  • Not Sorry Productions
  • Open Spirit: A Place of Hope, Health, and Harmony
  • Outdoor Church of Cambridge
  • Peace House
  • Renewal House
  • Social Action Massachusetts (Massachusetts Housing & Shelter Alliance)
  • The BTS Center
  • Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
  • Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry

Detailed descriptions of HDS agency sites (PDF)

Education

  • Babson College, Office of Religious and Spiritual Life
  • Barre Center for Buddhist Studies
  • Brandeis University Center for Spiritual Life: Buddhist Community
  • Brooks School
  • Brown University - Office of the Chaplains & Religious Life
  • The Dignity Project
  • Episcopal Chaplaincy at Harvard
  • HDS Buddhist Ministry Initiative
  • HDS Office of Communications
  • HDS Office of Student Life
  • HDS Office of the Chaplain and Religious & Spiritual Life
  • Harvard Bridge Program
  • MIT -- Indigenous Spirit
  • MIT Muslim Chaplaincy
  • MIT Office of Religious, Spiritual, and Ethical Life
  • MIT Prajnopaya, The Buddhist Community at MIT (Non-Sectarian)
  • MIT Radius
  • Middlesex School
  • Milton Academy
  • Natural Dharma Fellowship / Wonderwell Mountain Refuge
  • Smith College Office of Religious & Spiritual Life
  • Suffolk University Interfaith Center
  • The Harvard Foundation, Harvard College Dean of Students' Office
  • The Memorial Church of Harvard University
  • Tufts University Chaplaincy
  • World Christian Database & World Religion Database/Harvard Divinity School

Detailed descriptions of HDS education sites (PDF)

Health Care

  • Boston Children's Hospital
  • Boston Medical Center
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
  • Lumin Health
  • Massachusetts General Hospital Spiritual Care Department
  • Mount Auburn Hospital
  • Newbury Court
  • Newton Wellesley Hospital - Department of Spiritual Care
  • North Shore Medical Center
  • Spaulding Hospital (Continuing Medical Care) Cambridge
  • Youville Assisted Living Residence

Detailed descriptions of HDS health care sites (PDF)

Congregations

  • Bethel AME Church
  • Charles Street AME Church
  • Christ Church (Episcopal), Cambridge
  • Concord Baptist Church of Boston
  • Congregation Eitz Chayim
  • Edwards Church
  • Faith Lutheran Church, Cambridge
  • First Church in Belmont (Unitarian Universalist)
  • First Church in Boston (Unitarian Universalist)
  • First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
  • First Church in Chestnut Hill
  • First Church in Ipswich, UCC
  • First Church in Wenham
  • First Congregational Church, Somerville
  • First Parish in Arlington
  • First Parish in Bedford, Unitarian Universalist
  • First Parish in Cambridge (UU)
  • First Parish in Concord
  • First Parish in Malden, Universalist
  • First Parish in Milton, Unitarian Universalist
  • First Parish in Needham
  • First Parish in Wayland, Unitarian Universalist
  • First Parish in Weston
  • First Parish of Norwell Unitarian Universalist
  • First Religious Society in Newburyport, Unitarian Universalist
  • First Universalist Society in Franklin
  • Follen Church, Unitarian Universalist
  • Fourth Presbyterian Church
  • Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
  • Hillside Community Church
  • Hope Central Church, UCC & DOC
  • ISKCON Boston
  • King's Chapel
  • Old Cambridge Baptist Church
  • Paulist Center
  • Peace Lutheran Church - Community Arts and Agriculture
  • Pleasant Hill Baptist Church
  • Second Congregational Church, Beverly
  • Society of St John the Evangelist
  • St John's Franklin and Grace Episcopal N. Attleboro Collaboration
  • St. Matthew's United Methodist Church
  • St. Paul's Episcopal Church
  • St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Westborough
  • Swedenborg Chapel
  • The Connectional Table of the United Methodist Church
  • UU Society of Wellesley Hills
  • Union Baptist Church
  • Unitarian Universalist Church of Reading
  • United Church of Christ, Norwell
  • United Parish in Brookline
  • University Lutheran Church - Campus Ministry
  • Wellesley Hills Congregational Church, UCC
  • Western Avenue Baptist Church
  • Winchester Unitarian Society

Detailed descriptions of HDS congregational sites (PDF)

Detailed description of all HDS field education sites (PDF - opens in browser)

Clinical pastoral education sites

Several accredited Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) centers are located in the Boston area. Please see the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) website for more information.

BTI sites

Please see BTI Field Education for information about field education available through other schools of the Boston Theological Interreligious Consortium.