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ACA News & Information
11.19.2009
The Senate’s health care reform bill, unveiled November 18th by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, fails to establish Medicare coverage of licensed professional counselors. This despite the fact that the Senate has twice approved Medicare coverage of counselors, and that Medicare beneficiaries need better access to outpatient mental health service providers. Read More...11.9.2009
The American Counseling Association (ACA) is deeply saddened, as is the nation, about the tragic shooting at Ft. Hood. Although the alleged shooter was a psychiatrist, not a counselor, all of us in the helping professions feel a particular sadness. There are many questions still to be answered but we urge everyone to refrain from generalizing this tragedy to persons of any one faith or ethnicity. These were the actions of one troubled individual and do not reflect the actions of any group of individuals. Read More...11.9.2009
The House of Representatives took an historic step forward on Saturday, November 7th with the passage of major health insurance reform legislation, H.R.3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act. Read More...11.2.2009
The ACA Foundation is now accepting accepting applications for Scholarship Awards for the ACA 2010 Annual Conference. The Awards cover Conference registration fees for counseling grad students, with one Grand Prize Scholarship also providing 3 nights hotel for the Conference. Read More...10.29.2009
The American Counseling Association (ACA), the world’s largest nonprofit organization representing nearly 43,000 professional counselors, including professional school counselors, strongly supports the work of Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education Kevin Jennings who directs the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools. Read More...10.27.2009
Two essay competitions for counseling graduate students, each offering a Grand Prize of a $2,500 Scholarship Grant, are now underway. These ACA Foundation-run competitions also award scholarship grants of $500 to runners-up. Read More...10.14.2009
The American Counseling Association is pleased to announce the opening of the 6th Annual Graduate Student Ethics Competition. This program is designed to offer Graduate Students an opportunity to work in teams to compete in how to handle the hypothetical ethical cases at both the Masters and Doctoral degree levels. Read More...10.12.2009
On October 11, 2009, the counseling profession achieved a historic goal with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's signing into law of California Senate Bill 788, establishing licensure of professional clinical counselors in the state. Read More...
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