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.
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.
Visit Our New ACAF Publications Page!
Please take a moment to browse through our listing of ACAF Publications. The proceeds from books by authors such as Samuel Gladding and Courtland Lee support the Foundation's ability to fund programs.
Summer/Fall 2009 Foundation Update
What a remarkable year...one of possibilities realized! Enjoy the highlights, found in our Summer/Fall 2009 edition of the American Counseling Association Foundation's newsletter.
Growing Happy and Confident Kids
Special Initiative of the American Counseling Association Foundation
Young people today face innumerable challenges, possibly more than any generation before them. The world in which our kids grow and develop has been made fragile by threats both near and far.
In schools, competition to succeed, peer pressure, and aggressive behavior by bullies are representative of the many threats to individual success and self-esteem. At home, relationships can become tenuous or broken. In neighborhoods and communities, violence, gangs, substance abuse, and other problems are more prevalent than ever before. Finally, in the larger world, no child can turn on a television set and not witness crime, war, terrorism, and global unrest.
Counselors Care Fund - Helping Our Own
Assisting ACA Members and ACA Branch Organizations who are affected by disasters and tragedies.
It can happen at any time, to any counselor. A natural disaster or some other tragic event strikes and suddenly a counselor finds that he or she has lost almost everything. That's when the Counselors Care Fund is ready to help.
Originally created to respond to the many counselors who lost so much to hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the New Orleans area, the mission of the Counselors Care Fund has been expanded to allow it to help counselors anywhere and at any time when a tragic event has occurred.
Find out more about the Counselors Care Fund and about how you can help it fulfill its goal of counselors helping our own.