Two things to share with you this month. The first is that your ACA staff is in the final phase of planning as we prepare to host somewhere in the neighborhood of 4,000 professional counselors, counselor educators and graduate students who will gather for the annual ACA Conference & Expo
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Monthly column from the ACA CEO
In the past month, millions of words have been written about the late Nelson Mandela. There were stories that profiled his courage, strength, leadership, dedication, compassion and willingness to work with those who originally opposed his cause. His commitment to what he felt in his soul was so strong that
I knew that this month’s column would be both difficult and easy to write. Easy because the content came to mind quickly; difficult because I dreaded the task. Writing this column would mean that a chapter of my life had ended. As the publisher of Counseling Today and your CEO, I appreciate
When I ask professional counselors why they decided to pursue this particular career path, it is rare to hear someone respond that they did it for the money. (OK, honestly, that never happens.) Nor do they respond by saying that they did it for the power, prestige, community standing or
This past August, our nation celebrated the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, an event at which the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. made his famous “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial. Fifty years later, our country continues to dialogue about diversity, inclusion, social justice and
Last month, I wrote about everyday heroes and how each of you works with clients and students as they face life’s challenges. In many ways, all of you are heroes, albeit ones who are unsung in so many cases. This column looks at another positive human action — namely, those random
Each day, society is faced with any number of tragedies, traumas and emergencies where lives literally hang in the balance. Many of you have faced situations in which the action you took, based on years of education, experience and training, allowed you to step in and save a life. After
Each July, ACA welcomes a new president who will serve for the next 12 months as our association’s leader and primary spokesperson. For the past 16 years, I have had the honor of being the person who works most closely with the association’s chief elected officer to carry out the
Each June, ACA experiences several transitions, from our employees who find the weather outside nice enough to do their lunchtime health walks, to closing out “the books” as we finish our fiscal year. There are also personal transitions, such as staff members with children switching from getting their kids to
L ast month, six of us from the ACA staff, including two who are professional counselors, attended the digitalNOW conference. The three-day gathering was limited to 300 association executives and senior staff, and it featured some of today’s most interesting thought leaders discussing trends, technology and its impact on not-for-profit