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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Your work as a professional counselor will be key to helping millions of individuals well into the 21st century. ACA provides you with the solid footing and resources you can rely on as you prepare for your career as a professional counselor. Read more...

ACA President-Elect Marcheta Evans is seeking nominations for American Counseling Association committee appointments. She will be appointing professional members for each committee who will serve a three-year term, and a student representative to each committee for a one-year term. Read more...