CPE Units

Unit schedules for  2025-2026

Summer Intensive Unit, 2025: May 27  ~ August 15, 2025

Fall Extended Unit, 2025: September 3 - December 31, 2025

Spring Extended Unit, 2026: January 12 ~ May 23, 2026

• The tuition is $600 per a unit for in-person, hybrid, and online program. 

• For online only, there is additional charge of $2900 for administrative fee (including agreement arrangement fee), supervision fee, and on-site supervision fee. In other words, if you do the clinical practice with the hospitals and institutions that we have already arrangement/agreement in Fresno area, there is no addition charge. However, if you want to use your own context/hospital/hospice/institution for your clinical placement, there is an additional charge. 

• If any institution, hospital, or hospice wants to make a clinical placement with CPECC, please contact email via cpe@cpecentralca.org.

• The Application Form, Requirements and Class Schedules listed below.  

• Please download them and e-mail the application form to cpe@cpecentralca.org with $30.00 application fee (Payable to: CPECC). 

Mailing Address:

CPE of Central California

PO Box 26716

Fresno, CA 93729

or

CPE of Central California

St. Agnes Hospital MS. 965 (1303 East Herndon Avenue, Fresno, CA 93720)

The  Intensive Unit  is a 12 week period which includes hospital orientation, and full time weekly schedule: 10-15 hours of individual or group meetings (spiritual care reports, didactics, personal/professional relations seminars and individual supervision); 20-25 hours for direct patient contact, including ministering to family members and staff as well as attending patient care conferences; 5 hours for reading and written assignments. 

The Extended Unit is a 16 ~ 18 week period and includes a minimum of 100 hours of individual or group meetings (spiritual care reports, didactics, personal /professional relations seminars and individual supervision); 300 hours for direct patient contact, including ministering to family members and staff as well as attending patient care conferences; 5 hours for reading and written assignments.  

The 30 week long extended Unit is a 30 ~ 32 week period and includes a minimum of 100 hours of individual or group meetings (spiritual care reports, didactics, personal /professional relations seminars and individual supervision); 300 hours for direct patient contact, including ministering to family members and staff as well as attending patient care conferences; 5 hours for reading and written assignments. Weekly, it will be one class (3.5 hours) and 10 clinical hours approximately. 

CPE application forms please go to following link

https://acpe.edu/education/cpe-students/cpe-application