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ACA Offers Guidance for Counselors Working With Unaccompanied Minors

The American Counseling Association Center for Policy, Practice, and Research is responsible for providing access to, and interpretation of, the American Counseling Association Code of Ethics. The following is a Q&A to help counselors working with ...

Congratulations to the 2020 ACA National Award Winners!

The American Counseling Association and the American Counseling Association Foundation are pleased to announce the winners of the annual ACA National Awards for counseling students, counselors in practice and ACA members who have made extraordinary ...

The American Counseling Association Denounces Immigrant Youths? Breach of Confidentiality

(ALEXANDRIA, VA) – The following is ACA’s statement on recent reports of immigrant youth’s breach of confidentiality (esta declaración también está disponible en línea en Español/this ...

S. Kent Butler, PhD Elected as 70th President of the American Counseling Association

S. Kent Butler, University of Central Florida interim chief equity, inclusion and diversity officer and professor, has been elected to serve as the American Counseling Association (ACA) President-elect beginning July 1, 2020. Dr. Butler will begin ...

ACA Celebrates School Counselors

The American Counseling Association celebrates professional school counselors and their work in schools across the nation, in recognition of National School Counseling Week, Feb. 3 – 7, 2020.School counselors have a profound effect on the future ...

2020 National Career Development Summit

Recently, the American Counseling Association Government Affairs team attended the annual National Career Development Summit (NCDS) this January.  The NCDS, hosted by the Coalition for Career Development (CCD), was held for the purpose of ...

House of Representatives Passes the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020 (H.R. 2745)

The House passed its appropriations bundle, which was made up of two legislative packages that included all 12 fiscal year 2020 funding bills. The appropriation packages, products of bipartisan negotiation, now head to the Senate for approval. ...

Senate Finance proposal could extend funding for Community Behavioral Health Clinics

The Senate Finance Committee recently proposed to extend and expand the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHC) program. If enacted, the legislation would extend funding for the CCBHC program for an additional two years and expand ...

National Suicide Hotline Designation Act (S. 2661) approved by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

Your voices have been heard and the American Counseling Association’s (ACA) Government Relations Team would like to thank the dedicated counselors and advocates that continue to work on behalf of suicide prevention. Today, ACA is happy to report ...

ACA Celebrates The Mental Health Access Improvement Act of 2019 Reaching 100 Bipartisan Cosponsors

We did it! With your help, we’re one big step closer to Medicare reimbursement for professional counselors!Due in part to your advocacy and support of The Mental Health Access Improvement Act of 2019 (H.R. 945), the bill today has a total of 100 ...

ACA Announces Support for Bill to Strengthen Career Counseling in Middle and High Schools

This week, Congressmen Jim Langevin (D-RI) and Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson (R-PA), co-chairs of the Congressional Career and Technical Education (CTE) Caucus, introduced the Counseling for Career Choice Act. This bipartisan legislation amends the ...

Legislation for Licensed Professional Counselors in Michigan Signed Into Law

HB 4325 clarifies that counselors can continue to diagnose and offer psychotherapy

The American Counseling Association Foundation Offers Grants of Up to $500

The American Counseling Association Foundation is seeking proposals from American Counseling Association members for grants of up to $500.

ACA Foundation Awards Seven Grants

The American Counseling Association Foundation Board of Trustees provided grants in the amount of $500 to seven American Counseling Association members to further counseling-related projects they created to benefit their clients and communities. The ...

Counselor Researchers Contribute to 'Psychotherapy Relationships that Work'

The first-ever chapter from counselor researchers is included in the new edition.

Urgent: Contact the Iowa Licensure Board About New Regulations

The Iowa Board of Behavioral Health is considering changes to its Educational Qualifications for Mental Health Counselors. In the Professional Orientation curriculum, the Board proposes to replace the American Counseling Association with the American ...

ACA Co-Hosts the Asia Pacific Rim Confederation of Counsellors Conference

The American Counseling Association, in partnership with the Australian Counselling Association and the Asia Pacific Rim Confederation of Counsellors, is co-hosting the sixth Asia Pacific Rim Confederation of Counsellors Conference.

Join 700 of Your Colleagues On Capitol Hill in September

Here’s your chance to advocate for counseling, mental health, and Medicare reimbursement in Washington, DC!  The American Counseling Association is teaming up with the National Council for Behavioral Health for their Hill Day – which ...

Statement from the American Counseling Association on our National Crisis of Gun Violence

Professional Counselors care, are concerned, and can help WASHINGTON, D.C.—The following is ACA’s statement on our national gun violence crisis and the trauma caused by these heinous acts (esta declaración también está ...

Advocating for Medicare Reimbursement: Professional Counselors Take on DC

More than 100 members of the American Counseling Association scaled Capitol Hill last week in 96-degree heat to advocate for legislation that would enable licensed professional counselors to be reimbursed by Medicare. The counselor advocates came from ...