Rev. Dale A. Young, D.Min, BCC, Director
Rev. Shirley L. Brown, M-Div, BCC, Senior Congregational Health Chaplain and Pastoral Care Educator
Rev. Gueillant Dorcinvil, D. Min, BCC, Chaplain
Gabrielle Van Splunteren, M.H.Sc., Program Administrator
Maria T. Martinez, MPH, CHES, Community Health Educator
Rev. Dale A. Young, D.Min, BCC
Director
Since 1997, Young has been the Director of Congregational Health. Young served as a hospital chaplain at Miami Children’s Hospital and later Baptist Hospital of Miami before developing the Congregational Health program. He is an ordained Lutheran clergy and a Board certified chaplain. He is a graduate of Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa (M-Div). He completed his clinical pastoral education residency at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. Young served as President of the South Florida Chaplains Association (1992-1993).
As Congregational Health Director, he has developed and taught training workshops on the Congregational Health model. He also took the Congregational Health Bereavement Facilitator Training to Sri Lanka and India during the summers of 2005 and 2006 where he trained over 120 peer group grief facilitators.
The Health Foundation of South Florida named Young as one of three finalists in (the non-profit category) for the Concern Award 2006.
Chaplain Shirley L. Brown, M.Div., BCC
Senior Congregational Health Chaplain and Pastoral Care Educator
Brown serves as the Community Health Chaplain of Congregational Health. Her chaplaincy experience spans across hospitals, hospice and prison ministries providing emotional and spiritual support to patients, inmates, and bereaved families. She is a clinical member of the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) and Board certified through the Association of Professional Chaplains (APC). As the senior congregational health chaplain and pastoral care educator she provides training and education for Congregational Health's Faith-Based Health Support Groups, Care Teams and Bereavement programs. She is also an adjunct professor of the New Birth Bible Institute and a life transition coach for congregational care ministry leaders in formation. Brown is the Robert W. Woodruff Scholar graduating in 1997 (magna cum laude) from the Emory University - Candler School of Theology, Atlanta, GA, and is presently pursuing a Doctorate in Ministry at Florida Center for Theological Studies in Health & Wellness for the New Millennium.
Rev. Gueillant Dorcinvil, D. Min, BCC
Chaplain
Since June 2011, Gueillant Dorcinvil has been the Congregational Health’s Community Health Chaplain for Broward County. As Chaplain, he worked with Vitas Hospice and then served as a Hospital Chaplain at Doctor Hospital in Coral Cables. He is an ordained PCA clergy. He is a graduate of Knox Theological Seminary, Fort Lauderdale Florida with a Master in Divinity (M.Div.) He holds a doctorate in Ministry (D.Min,) from Florida Center for Theological Studies. He completed his Clinical Pastoral education residency at Vitas and with College Pastoral Supervision Psychotherapy. He is also co-founder of Living Hope Haiti Christian Mission. In The Rural areas of the City of St Michel, He has developed a Community health system that emphasizes prevention through community Health education. He is the Dean and Founder of the Reform Theological Seminary in St Michel, Haiti. He is a Public speaker in the Haitian Community of South Florida and in his homeland, Haiti.
Gabrielle Van Splunteren, M.H.Sc.
Program Administrator
Van Splunteren obtained her Bachelor of Science in Clinical Nutrition from Simmons College, Boston, MA and her Master of Health Science (M.H.Sc.) from Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Van Splunteren has worked in the Human Potential Development field as an instructor and trainer of different self improvement programs. She has worked in the Health Care field in different organizations such as Boston City Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital, Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, CA, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami, FL and since 2006 in Baptist Health South Florida. She supported the Baptist Outpatient Services Medical Plazas until 2011 when she came to Congregational Health as Program Administrator.
Maria T. Martinez, MPH, CHES
Community Health Educator
Martinez, community health educator, was born in Panama. Her work in Public Health began as an intern for the Office of Epidemiology & Disease Control at the Miami-Dade County Health Department in 2003, working for the Asthma Surveillance Program.
Martinez has worked in the areas of Environmental Health & Tobacco Prevention. She received her Master’s degree in Public Health and Bachelor’s in Science in Social Work from Florida International University.