Thank you very much.
What I identified earlier as what I think is crucial to our successful management of the challenges before us, being rooted in community, is true for us as well. Chaplains need to remain well rooted and grounded within their own faith tradition. They need to maintain a healthy prayer and spiritual life. They need to be part of multiple teams. There's a fair bit of support that we can get from our colleague chaplains and our colleagues in the other disciplines we work alongside.
It's easy for us to say to a soldier that they shouldn't be reticent to ask for help, but sometimes we're the last ones to ask for help ourselves. We need to work at fostering a sense amongst our own profession that seeking help is the right thing when we need it. Many of our chaplains have spiritual directors. Members of the ICCMC, these civilian faith group leaders, who are endorsing representatives and are our links back to our faith groups, provide a fair bit of care and counsel to us as well.
We have a whole suite of possibilities. One of the projects in the campaign plan I was mentioning a while back is to develop policies and procedures for providing specialized chaplain care. I don't actually have to turn to another military chaplain to get counsel that I ought to have, there's maybe a civilian chaplain I can go to. We're trying to nail down how best to meet the needs in ways that would be faith-group specific and appropriate, and to ensure our chaplains are not falling through the cracks and are receiving the care that they so ably provide.