About Me

Meet Maureen A. Erwin

  • Board-Certified Chaplain with a focus on end-of-life conversations, and advance care planning  

  • Certified by Respecting Choices as a  First Steps Advance Care Planning Facilitator and Instructor  

  • Serves as a speaker and consultant to chaplains, clergy, senior groups, individuals and families 

  • Works with NJ COYL (Conversation of Your Life) program and the New Jersey Goals of Care Coalition 

  • Served as a Healthcare Chaplain for Hackensack Meridian Health-JFK Medical Center, Edison, NJ 

  • Volunteer for Center for Hope Hospice in Scotch Plains NJ 

Previous Professional Experience

decades-long before

  • Financial services executive

    • Maureen’s experience in financial services helps her understand the delicate balance between the heart and the pocketbook and the need to consider both emotional and family financial considerations when making planning decisions for end-of-life care

  • Served on corporate and non-profit boards 

Spiritual and Personal Life

  • A member of Beacon Unitarian Universalist Church, Summit, NJ

  • Ordained as a community minister of the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Plainfield, NJ

  • Member of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care 

  • With her husband, a member of Temple Shalom of Scotch Plains, NJ

Education and Certification

  • Board Certified Clinical Chaplain - CPSP (College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy)

  • Graduate, CPE (Clinical Pastoral Education), Hackensack Meridian Health - JFK Medical Center, Edison, NJ

  • MBA – Rutgers Business School 

  • BA – University of Wisconsin School of Business

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