Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Health Professions
 
Board
Board of Counseling
 
chapter
Regulations Governing the Practice of Professional Counseling [18 VAC 115 ‑ 20]
Action Requirement for CACREP accreditation for educational programs
Stage Proposed
Comment Period Ended on 7/14/2017
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6/17/17  10:13 pm
Commenter: Allison Ober, GMU counseling student

Please vote no on CACREP
 

Dear Governor McAuliffe and Board members,

Please vote no on CACREP.  I am currently embarking upon my 2nd career to become a licensed professional counselor.  The decision to start all over again in my 40's didn't come easily, but I felt a calling that I could no longer ignore.  GMU's degree in community agency counseling has everything I was looking for in a counseling program.  It meets all of Virginia's standards for counselor education but offers even more - an intensive focus on multiculturalism and social justice.  

As many have rightly pointed out, as a nation we are facing a shortage of mental health care providers.  CACREP will only make it harder for many of us to do the work we feel so honored to do.  Please don't force the field of counseling to become a divisive and exclusive profession.

Sincerely,

Allison Ober

 

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