Here we go again! CACREP trying to "sneak into" exclusivity status in Virginia. We are in a mental health pandemic! Now is not the time to be restricting access to qualified, competent mental health/professional counseling services.

Additionally, we are in a desperately needed and long overdue time of inclusion, not exclusion of those who don't meet certain "standards" as CACREP is attempting to do. It is offensive to be viewed as inferior by these power hungry exclusivists. 

Regionally accredited graduate counseling programs (and thus their graduates) have been vetted by the regional accrediting bodies where their programs are located. Do we give higher status to certain doctors, nurses, social workers, lawyers, accountants, engineers, etc who graduate from graduate schools that have joined "trumped up" accrediting organizations? Not that I am aware of. The accrediting agencies that accredit these programs are the duly appointed agencies for their professional specialties in their regions. There are no competing accrediting agencies for these graduate schools. Why do we let the  manipulative, power seeking CACREP attempt to "dupe" us! We're too smart for that, aren't we?