Welcome Students

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. Our member benefits for students are designed to assist you with your personal and professional growth.

2010 Conference Scholarships Program Now Open

Are you a counseling graduate student wondering how to afford the registration costs for the ACA 2010 Annual Conference in Pittsburgh in March? The ACA Foundation’s Graduate Student Conference Scholarship Awards may be your answer. In addition to Scholarships providing Conference registration fees, one Grand Prize Scholarship will also include 3 nights hotel for the Conference. For more information...

ACAF’s 2010 Graduate Student Scholarship Competitions Now Open

Two Essay Competitions for Counseling Graduate Students

Two Grand Prize $2,500 Scholarship Grant Awards

Plus...Eight Runner-Up Scholarship Grant Awards of $500

Two Graduate Student Scholarship Grant Competitions are now underway for ACA members enrolled in counseling graduate programs. Each competition offers a Grand Prize of a $2,500 Scholarship Grant, publication in Counseling Today and free ACA Conference attendance. Four runners-up in each competition will receive $500 Scholarship Grants, essay publication and free ACA Conference registration.

For complete details, rules and online entry forms for the ACA Foundation’s 2010 Graduate Student Essay competition (open to ACA members enrolled in a counseling graduate program), or the Ross Trust Graduate Student Essay Competition for Future School Counselors (open to ACA members enrolled in a counseling graduate program leading to a career as a professional school counselor), please click here.

Don’t delay! Entry deadline for both competitions is December 13, 2009.

’ACA Is Where You Belong’ - Discover ACA Student Membership

In an effort to assist you with your student presentations, ACA has assembled the following PowerPoint presentation, "Discover ACA Student Membership". In addition to the PowerPoint presentation, we have developed "Talking Points" to assist you in your presentation. Read more...

Liability (malpractice) Insurance Now Included in Membership for ACA Master’s Level Students

The ACA Student membership now includes liability insurance to ACA student members enrolled and engaged in a master’s degree counseling curriculum at a post secondary institution. Coverage is solely while performing counseling services (e.g. practicum and internship) related to such curriculum. For additional answers to questions you may have regarding the program, click here.

ACA Ethics Student Roundup!

The ACA Ethics Committee will be accepting registrations for the 6th Annual Graduate Student Ethics Competition in October - open to master’s and doctoral level students in Counselor Education Programs. Read More...

2008 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...

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...