Membership Information
| "How do I join KSCA or KCA ...And what do all of those acronyms mean? How do I find out without feeling embarrassed??? |
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| Overall Governing Council for ALL counseling divisions. Kansas is a part of the Midwest Region of the American Counseling Association (ACA). The other three regions are the North Atlantic Region, the Southern Region, and the Western Region. The Midwest Region serves those ACA members who live and work within the Midwest region of the United States. The ACA website address is: http://www.counseling.org/ Kansas Counseling Association is the Kansas Governing Council of all of the following Kansas Counseling divisions. The KCA President is Jim Flax and if you would like to email him for division or membership questions, you can reach him at pkylej@yahoo.com OR pkyle@jccc.edu ***You must be a member of KCA before you can belong to any other division within the KCA. The KCA organization is divided into REGIONS. Membership in each region is not confined to geographic boundaries. Boundary lines depicted above are approximations. Looking at the map below, you can see which region you would belong to. Each one of these regions have district meetings that help School Counselors connect with each other and share resources. Each region has meetings in the fall and a spring meeting at the KCA spring conference. The Regional Presidents are listed below and they would love to hear from you to share when they are meeting and to involve you in email contact. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kansas School Counselor Association (KSCA) provides a common framework for all professionals engaged in pupil services work. You are on the KSCA website right now! If you would like more information about why joining KSCA is a good idea, please go to the Leadership Roster and email some of the officers -we'd love to have you join and more than that, we think you would find it very worthwhile. The KSCA President is Deb Woodard and you can reach her at: woodardd@umkc.edu North West President is Vicki Chance. Email: vchance@usd105.org
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kansas Career Development Association (KCDA) is an organization of individuals concerned with the vocational guidance and career development of individuals in our work oriented society. The President of KCDA is Ryan Ruda and his email is: ryan.ruda@gcccks.edu Kansas Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (KACES) is organized to provide leadership in promoting professional standards in the preparation and supervision of counselors. The President for KACES is Jon Sward and his email is jsward@emporia.edu Kansas Mental Health Counselors Association (KMHCA) is an interdisciplinary division dedicated to maintaining and improving the quality of mental health counseling. The President for the Kansas Mental Health Counselors Association is Theresa Clark and you can reach her at: tclark_02@Yahoo.com Kansas Association for Specialists in Group Work (KASGW) represents counselors who seek to assist a variety of individuals through the promotion and development of group methods. The contact persons for KASGW are: Fred Bradley at fbradley@ksu.edu and Lori Carr at lcarr@ksu.edu Kansas Association for Adult Development and Aging (KAADA) provides a resource for those professionals working with the aging adult population and families. The President of KAADA is Catherine Hay and she can be reached at c.hay@juno.com Kansas Association of Marriage and Family Counselors (KAMFC) provides developmental and educational support and resources to enhance marital and family quality in Kansas. The President of KAMFC is Mick Tenner and can be reached at mick.tener@us.army.mil Kansas College Counseling Association (KCCA) is an organization for any postsecondary college counselor endeavoring to foster student development. Christine Perez is the President of KCCA and can be reached at cperez@pittstate.edu Kansas Counseling Association for the American College of Testing (ACT) is represented by Al Urich of Belleville. Al can be reached at aurich@nckcn.com Kansas Multi-Cultural Division (KMCD) represents those counselors who strive to improve cultural, ethnic and racial understanding in counseling. At this time, I don't have a contact person. |
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