How can my attendance at the Conference benefit me professionally as well as my college/university?
Attendance at the conference can help accomplish the following:
- Facilitate and support diversity, multi-culturalism and social justice on campus
- Learn risk management strategies and legal and ethical guidelines to minimize the university's legal exposure
- Learn threat assessment information to help your university reduce the risk of violence on campus
- Save money by learning to manage the counseling service in a cost efficient and time efficient manner
- Better support the academic mission of the institution by training faculty and staff in responding and referring troubled and troubling students
- Support and develop learning goals and learning outcomes
- Contribute to retention of students
- Learn national standards of practice in the field
- Recruit ,attract and retain the best and most diverse staff possible
- Learn about training practices and standards for practicum, and internships
- Learn to reduce the risk of suicide and other acts of violence by students
- Reduce the likelihood of tragic events such as violence, sexual assault, alcohol poisoning and drug overdose that bring negative publicity to the institution
- Create and maintain successful group therapy programs that allow you to serve more students
- Develop leadership, administrative and management skills that are not part graduate training
- Learn about accreditation from the International Association of Counseling Services, the primary accreditation organization for collegiate counseling services
- Support internationalization on your campus
- Learn how to provide consultation and outreach services
- Learn about recent research regarding counseling centers and their work
- Develop effective strategies for responding to crises, emergencies, and disaster situations
- Learn about models and methods of triage, intake and clinical flow
- Understand the use of technology in counseling services
- Develop strategies to get grants and external funding for counseling services
- Receive continuing education credits at relatively inexpensive cost to maintain professional licensure.