ACAF Graduate Student Scholarships
The ACA Foundation provides grants to graduate counseling students through two programs, the Graduate Student Essay Contest and the Gerald & Marianne Corey Graduate Student Scholarship Fund.
The Graduate Student Essay Contest provides scholarships to 5 graduate counseling students, publishes each winner's essay in Counseling Today, and provides each with a complimentary registration to the ACA Conference. The first prize winner receives $2,500 and the four runner-up winners receive $500 each.
The Gerald & Marianne Corey Graduate Student Scholarship fund provides complimentary registrations to the ACA Conference to graduate counseling students attending the Conference for the first time, with the first place winner also receiving 3 nights of complimentary accommodations at one of the ACA Conference hotels.
Both competitions open every fall and are open to ACA member graduate students currently enrolled in a counseling-related graduate program at an accredited college or university.
Visit Our 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.
