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ACA in the News: Toolkit Helps Boys & Girls Club Address Kids' Real-Life Issues

ACA Communications Director Amber McLaughlin recently spoke with the MinnPost about ACA's partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs of America in celebration of Counseling Awareness Month.

ACA in the News: Understanding Communal Grief After the Death of a Music Superstar

ACA Chief Professional Officer David Kaplan contributed to an article for cnn.com about the impact of Prince's death, and how we mourn singers in a different way than other celebrities.

ACA Partners With AT&T to Communicate Benefits of New Affordable Internet Service Program

AT&T has launched a new program to address the issue that many consumers without Internet service say stranded them on the wrong side of the digital divide: price.

U.S. Secretary of Education Calls School Counselors Heroes

In an interview with ACAeNews for School Counselors, new Secretary of Education John B. King had some positive things to say about school counselors and the role of counseling in K-12 education.

ACA Media Spotlight: 25 Reasons to Have a Counselor in Your Life

In celebration of Counseling Awareness Month, The Mighty published a list of ?25 Reasons to Have a Counselor in Your Life,? featuring ACA member quotes.

ACA Partners With Boys & Girls Clubs of America for Counseling Awareness Month

Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) serves more than 4 million youth members through 4,100 facilities across the nation and on U.S. military installations worldwide.

ACA Urges Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam to Veto Hate Bill 1840

Tennessee legislators voted to pass House Bill 1840, also known as Hate Bill 1840, which will permit professional counselors to deny services and refer clients based on the counselor's ?strongly held personal beliefs.?

ACA Supports Bill to Ban "Conversion Therapy" on Minors in New Hampshire

HB 1661 would prohibit all licensed mental health providers, including licensed professional counselors, from providing so-called "conversion therapy" to anyone under eighteen years of age.

Ireland Conference Scheduled for May 5-6, 2016

ACA will partner with the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP) for a very special two-day conference at the Talbot Hotel near Dublin. 6.25 CEs available.

ACA Media Spotlight: Finding Resilience and Hope In Appalachia

Recently, ACA member Carol Smith discussed mental health in the Mountain State with West Virginia Public Broadcasting.

Tennessee Advances Bill That Tells Counselors to Discriminate

Citing its deep disappointment, the American Counseling Association condemned Wednesday?s vote by the Tennessee House Health Committee approving House Bill 1840, legislation that would permit Licensed (and unlicensed) Professional Counselors to deny ...

ACA Media Spotlight: Encore Careers

ACA member Michael Rockel recently wrote an article about encore careers for Healthy Aging magazine.

ACA Media Spotlight: The Loneliness Epidemic

ACA member Everett Painter recently discussed how to combat loneliness with Discern Magazine, for an article about trends in our modern world that are leaving more and more people feeling isolated and lonely,

Asia Pacific Counselling Conference Scheduled for June 3-4, 2016

ACA will travel to Singapore once again this summer to explore "Exemplary Practices Across the Counselling Spectrum."

ACA in the News: Op-Ed for The Tennessean

In a recent Op-Ed published in The Tennessean, ACA member Shawn Spurgeon wrote about the controversial counseling bill being debated in Tennessee that would allow counselors to deny services to clients.

ACA Attends Human Rights Campaign's Annual LGBTQ Policy Briefing

The briefing is an opportunity for advocacy groups and associations who support the LGBTQ community to come together to receive critical legislative updates and exchange best practices.

Counseling Profession Under Attack in Tennessee

In an unprecedented turn of events, the counseling profession and the American Counseling Association became the target of a piece of state legislation.

ACA's Richard Yep to Join Exec. Committee of United Nations Group

Richard Yep, Chief Executive Officer of the American Counseling Association (ACA), has accepted a nomination to join the Executive Committee of the United Nation?s Department of Public Information/Non-Governmental Organizations (DPI/NGO).

ACA Announces 66th President

Dr. Gerard Lawson will begin his term as President-elect of the American Counseling Association on July 1, 2016 and will assume the presidency on July 1, 2017.

ACA Takes Firm Stance Against Tenn. Bill That Would Allow Discrimination Within Counseling Profession

On Wednesday, February 10th, the Tennessee Senate Health and Welfare Committee is expected to take up Senate Bill (SB) 1556. The bill, if signed into law, would allow Tennessee?s professional counselors and therapists to deny services to clients and ...