I strongly believe that professional standards for training are necessary to ensure high quality counselors are entering the field in the years to come.  CACREP has been the gold standard for counselor education and these regulations on training gives the public certainty that when someone represents themselves as a qualified professional counselor, that that is what the client will receive.  Clinical Social Workers and Psychologists have taken similar steps nationwide to ensure all clinicians in those fields are being trained to board certified, agreed upon standards for their education.  I believe that failing to implement CACREP or equal standards of this type would be detrimental to our profession, which is the stance of the ACA.