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Your work as a professional counselor will be key to helping millions of individuals well into the 21st century. ACA wants to be a resource for you as you begin your career.

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Call for Nominations for the International Student Panel

Sponsor: ACA International Committee

“International Student Panel: Mental Health Educational Programs Across the Globe”

The purpose of the panel is for international students to share their views about mental health or counseling education programs in their respective countries. Read More...

ACA Foundation announces the winners of the 2007 Graduate Student Essay contest

More than 120 graduate students across the country submitted essays on topics designed to explore timely issues facing them as future counseling professionals. Choosing just five from so many quality essays was difficult but after weeks of deliberation, here are the winners of the 2007 Graduate Student Essay contest.

First place winner:
Victoria Casper

Runners up:
Pennie E. Bucilla
Pamela N. Stiles
Amy Freadling
Wendy Eckenrod-Green

The first place winner will receive a check for $500.00. All 5 winners also receive a one year complimentary Student/New Professional membership to ACA.

Congratulations to all our 2007 Graduate Student Essay contest winners.

You can read each of the winning essays in the July 2007 issue of Counseling Today, or view them online here.

2007 Ethics Case Study Competition

Winners Announced - Southern Illinois University Carbondale and the University of North Texas claim first prizes

The case study competition serves as an opportunity to engage graduate students (masters and doctoral level) in critically analyzing a potential ethical case and creating an appropriate ethical decision making plan to respond to the ethical situation. Read more about the competition...

Graduate Student Association Survey -- For Students Only

In an effort to design the GSA in a manner that is most responsive to counseling graduate student needs, we are requesting current graduate students' input and feedback. The members of the GSA Taskforce are inviting you to participate in the following questionnaire. Your responses are of great value and importance. Read More...

Subscribe to the COUNSGRADS and/or Diversegrad-L listservs

A listserv is a mailing list of people who share a common interest. When someone posts a message to a listserv, all of the individuals subscribed to that list will receive the message via e-mail. Subscribers can either respond to the individual or the whole list. The traffic for each listserv varies but if you feel the amount of messages is overwhelming, unsubscribing is just as easy as subscribing. Read More...