Rev. Betsy Ritzman, M.Div., M.S.,L.C.P.C.; Director of Pastoral Care, Access Community Health Network has been in ministry since 1985. She is an ordained minister in the American Baptist Churches of the USA, a pastoral counselor and a licensed professional clinical counselor with a private practice at AltCare Health Center in Oak Park. Her commitment to pastoral care and the formation of local congregations as healing communities led her from Kansas to Chicago to complete her M.Div at McCormick Theological Seminary. She helped build and directed a congregationally based pastoral counseling center with nine sites in the Chicago metro area. Now, she is responsible for helping congregations bridge the caregiving gap for people with AIDS and other stigmatized health conditions. She has served on the boards of Urban Clinical Pastoral Education Consortium, Limina, as a member of the Executive Committee of the HIV/AIDS Service Providers Council and as a Deacon at Hyde Park Union Church where she is a member.