|
Greetings CSJ Members! It is hard to believe that it has already been a week since some of us attended the ACA Conference in San Francisco. We had an amazing time and did some fantastic advocacy work along the way. Here are some of the highlights: CSJ Board Members held their meeting on Thursday, and as you can see they are a committed and fine looking group. (Full disclosure: a board member wrote this post). Anyway, the Board made a lot of plans and are excited about a lot of great ideas that people have been suggesting.  Friday we held our Annual CSJ Brunch and Award Ceremony (Please see the Awards and Grants page for details on the winners). We had a great time and ate some fantastic food at The City College of San Francisco Culinary School’s restaurant, The Educated Palate. Here are a few photos from the event: Immediately following our brunch, CSJ held a Town Hall Meeting to find out what others are doing in social justice and how CSJ can be helpful. There were wonderful ideas generated out of this group  We are very proud to say that CSJ members conducted a mental health workshop in Spanish at El/La Center in San Francisco. “El/La is an organization for transgender Latinas (TransLatinas) that works to build collective vision and action to promote our survival and improve our quality of life in the San Francisco Bay Area.”  CSJ was also proud to sign up as a division co-sponsor for The 4th Annual Rainbow Run 5k & 1 Mile Walk for Wellness & Equality that occurred last Sunday. CSJ sponsored several sessions throughout the conference, and we received great feedback from people who attended.  The fact that ACA collectively decided to move the conference to San Francisco from Nashville due to the counseling “license to discriminate law” that was passed in Tennessee was not forgotten at this conference. Tennessee Counseling Association President, Kat Coy, spoke about the decision, and how Tennessee counselors are engaged in social justice to protect Tennessee mental health care consumers. ACA also hosted talented and diverse people to educate and entertain us at the conference – further demonstrating our multicultural commitment.  All in all, it was a great conference. If you couldn’t make it this year, we hope to see you next year in Atlanta!
Friday, March 17
1:00pm – 2:30pm CSJ Featured Session Program ID #166, Room 2009 Social Justice Counseling and the #BlackLivesMatterMovement 90-Minute Education Session, Advanced Joseph M. Williams Counselors should help contest hyper and hostile policing, which adversely affects the mental health and well-being of people from marginalized populations, (especially Blacks) (Turner, 2016). This interactive presentation considers how combining the ACA advocacy competencies and AMCD multicultural and social justice counseling competencies with the #Black Lives MatterMovement can assist counselors in combatting hyper and hostile policing in Black communities. Saturday, March 18 7:30am – 8:30am CSJ Featured Session Program ID #219, Room 3014 Using Parliamentary Procedure and Group Process in the Service of Social Justice 60-Minute Education Session Jane Goodman, Judy Daniels, Mark Pope Have you ever been a leader or participant in a meeting governed by Roberts Rules of Order and you did not know how to use parliamentary procedures and an understanding of group process to effectively advocate for your specific position? This session will provide strategies to work in diverse meeting settings to support social justice advocacy efforts. Strategies and role-play scenarios will be presented to demonstrate advocacy skills and the effective use of group process and parliamentary procedures. Sunday, March 19 10:00am – 10:30am CSJ Featured Session Program ID #817, 2nd Floor, Poster Area 3 State and Local Legislative Advocacy: Social Justice in Action 30-Minute Poster Session Kathryn “Kate” M. Williams The most important thing to know is that we, in the counseling profession, know more than politician do about mental health. So you don’t have to hesitate any longer to participate in legislative advocacy in your state. To ease any worries or provide answers to your curious questions, in this session, you will learn about ways to participate in legislative advocacy on the state and local level, hear about examples of how it has been done with counselors, educators and students in multiple states, and explore how the Advocacy Competencies fit in. Sunday, March 19 11:00am – 11:30am CSJ Featured Session Program ID #841, 2nd Floor, Poster Area 13 Applying the 2016 ACA Multicultural and Social Justice Competencies: Becoming a Social Justice Counselor 30-Minute Poster Session Anna Flores Locke, Michaela Ambrosius This poster session will provide an overview of the new 2016 ACA Multicultural and Social Justice Competencies. It will explore the crucial additions to this document that help guide us in our roles as social justice counselors. Additionally, the session will provide a case study involving an Argentinian Jew to demonstrate how to apply these competencies in counseling practice. Hello CSJ members — CSJ has just signed on a division sponsor of this great event! Please consider signing up.
—————————————————————-- Registration for the 4th Annual Rainbow Run 5k & 1 Mile Walk for Wellness and Equality is open until March 12th, including a Virtual option so you can still donate to Gender Spectrum, a wonderful organization in S.F.! Registration rates jump $5 for each category in about 10 hours and online registration ends on March 12th. After March 12th participants can register at the ALGBTIC Booth at the ACA Convention or on race day starting at 6:15AM. www.active.com/san-francisco-ca/running/… Copy and paste the link and come join us! Email me if you have any questions at [email protected]. The 4th Annual Rainbow Run 5k & 1 Mile Walk for Wellness & Equality is Sunday, March 19th 7:30AM sharp at South Harbor Park on the SF Bay Trail! The race/walk start and end just south of Pier 40 and offer scenic views, an opportunity to advocate for the transgender community, and some great fun before you leave San Francisco! So come run a 5k or walk a mile while enjoying the beauty of the city! We have the VIRTUAL 5K and 1 MILE WALK back again for those of you who cannot make it to the conference or are leaving early. We will be sanctioned by USA Track & Field (USATF) and generously supported by Assoc. of Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES), American Counseling Association (ACA), the ACA Foundation Trust, and RoadID. This year we are offering an awesome medal created by the same company that designs for the Boston Marathon for ALL finishers of the on-site and virtual 5k (along with a t-shirt) and t-shirts for all walkers. As always a portion of the proceeds will go to a local non-profit serving an underprivileged community. This year the non-profit is Gender Spectrum. Find out more about this national organization based in San Francisco here: https://www.genderspectrum.org/ Please consider participating and forwarding this email to all interested parties. We are also still taking sponsorship! Contact Michael Kocet at [email protected] for details. Stay active and engaged! Pete Finnerty Rainbow Run Race Director Greetings CSJ Community,
CSJ will be live-tweeting and Facebooking from the ACA Conference in San Francisco. Please follow us on Twitter @CounselingCSJ and Facebook if you haven’t already. We will be using the hashtag #CSJinSF. Please use this hashtag to share photos, inspiring quotes, and event information with the CSJ community. See you in San Francisco! |
RSS Feed
Home
Follow us on social media: @CSJNational
|
|
© COPYRIGHT 2023-2025. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED | COUNSELORS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE IS A DIVISION OF THE AMERICAN COUNSELING ASSOCIATION
PRIVACY POLICY DOCUMENTS AND IMAGES ARE COPYRIGHTED, ONLY TO BE USED WITH PERMISSION.
PRIVACY POLICY DOCUMENTS AND IMAGES ARE COPYRIGHTED, ONLY TO BE USED WITH PERMISSION.