Dr. Howard Smith
Chair
Dr. Courtland Lee
Immediate Past Chair
Dr. Sam Gladding
Chair Elect
Dr. Barbara Herlihy
Member
Dr. Lynn Linde
Ex-Officio Member
Dr. Marcheta Evans
Ex-Officio Member
Mr. Richard Yep
Secretary/Treasurer
Ms. Stacy Shaver
Assistant
Graduate students who submitted essays for the ACA Foundation's 2009 Graduate Student Essay Contest will learn later this summer which essays won top scores. Contest Readers are reviewing and scoring the essays now, and winners will be announced in the August issue of Counseling Today. The first place winner will receive $500, and all five winning essays will appear in Counseling Today and on this website.
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.
What a remarkable year...one of possibilities realized! Enjoy the highlights, found in our Summer/Fall 2008 edition of the American Counseling Association Foundation's newsletter.
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.
Assisting ACA Members and ACA Branch Organizations that are Struggling and Serving in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
Across the nation, counselors are reaching out to help colleagues by making a gift to the Counselors Care Fund. And, the American Counseling Association Foundation is doubling the Fund by matching each gift, up to a total of $50,000!
If you are a counselor unaffected personally by the hurricane yet eager to reach out with empathy, please support your colleagues with a gift to the Counselors Care Fund on the Foundation's secure donation page.
