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WCA 2024 Annual Conference
 

WCA's Annual Conference will be November 8-9, 2024 in Madison, WI at the DoubleTree by Hilton Madison East.

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WCA is excited to welcome our keynote for our 2024 conference, Dr. S. Kent Butler.

S. Kent Butler graduated from the University of Connecticut with a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology: Counseling Psychology. A Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC), and Nationally Certified School Counselor (NCSC), Dr. Butler is a Past President of the American Counseling Association and is an ACA Fellow. He also hosted “The Voice of Counseling” weekly Vodcast for ACA. Dr. Butler is a Counselor Education Professor at the University of Central Florida (UCF), a former Faculty Fellow for Inclusive Excellence, has served as a Chief Equity, Inclusion and Diversity Officer, and is a National Association of Chief Diversity Officer in Higher Education Fellow (NADOHE-CDOFP). 

Dr. Butler is a faculty advisor to CHI SIGMA IOTA International Honor Society (CSI), the Counselor Education Doctoral Student Organization (CEDSO), Project for Haiti Knights, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He served as the Principal Investigator for The High-Risk Delinquent and Dependent Child Educational Research Project: Situational Environmental Circumstances Mentoring Program (SEC). The grant transitioned into the UCF Young Knights Mentoring Project and supports Hungerford Elementary School students in Eatonville, FL. 

Dr. Butler is also a Past President for the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development (AMCD), former ACA Governing Council Representative, and an AMCD Multicultural Counseling Competencies Revisions Committee member which produced the Multicultural Social Justice Counseling Competencies (MSJCC). His research interests are Multicultural Counseling and Supervision, Social Justice, Mentoring, African American Males, International, Group, and School Counseling. 


Call for Student Poster Proposals

Submissions for graduate student posters are now being accepted for our annual conference to be held in Madison, WI. All presentations will occur on Saturday, November 9, 2024. WCA will start notifying accepted presentations on a rolling basis on October 1.
This opportunity is open to any current graduate student in a counseling program working towards a Master's degree. Each student included in the proposal must be present for the poster presentation. Students will present new and useful information in an area of counseling. Students may present on research or other projects that have been completed during their time as a graduate student. During the poster presentation slot, students will be present with their poster and answer any questions that attendees may have. Your work should be presented on a tri-fold board.  Students may also choose to bring handouts.

Click on the link below in order to submit your proposal. 


Submit your graduate student poster proposal here!


Counseling Compact in Wisconsin Update


The Counseling Compact is an interstate compact that allows professional counselors who are licensed and residing in a compact member state to practice in other compact members states without the need for multiple licenses. 

On December 6, 2023, Gov. Evers signed Senate Bill 196 into law, entering Wisconsin into the Counseling Compact. Senate Bill 196 is now 2023 Wisconsin Act 55.    

You can visit the Counseling Compact Commission's website at the address below and review their FAQs regarding the compact. It will take some time for Wisconsin to set up the resources needed and we will share timeline updates as we receive information. 

https://counselingcompact.org/faq/

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