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...

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...

This article was initially published in ACAeNews, but the link included did not work properly. The link included here will take responders to the correct location. Read more...

An interview with U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, which appeared in ACAeNews for School Counselors. The full issue is available here Read more...

The counseling profession's long-standing goal of achieving recognition in all 50 states is a major step closer to completion. In the final hours of its legislative session, the California legislature approved a bill establishing licensure of professional clinical counselors in the state. Read more...

ALEXANDRIA, VA....About 4,000 professional counselors are meeting this week in Charlotte, NC, to attend the 2009 Annual Conference & Exposition of the American Counseling Association. Career counseling, coping with the stress of the economy, counseling military vets and their families, suicide prevention in colleges, depression in the workplace, working with sexual minority clients and their significant others, stress management, and internet and other addictions are among the topics addressed in the 500+ education sessions on the program. Read more...

Thousands of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are now receiving the rehabilitation counseling and mental health services they need thanks to a major new initiative funded by the federal government and launched in October. Read more...

CHARLOTTE, NC... ACA has confirmed Judy Shepard and C. Adolfo Bermeo as the Keynote Speakers at the 2009 ACA Annual Conference & Exposition in Charlotte, NC, March 19-23. Read more...