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Message from the President of ALGBTIC, Michael M. Kocet, Ph.D., LMHC, NCC
Finding the Spirit Within: Celebrating the Diversity of Spirit in the LGBTQ Community
Welcome to the website of the Association for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Issues in Counseling. We are glad that you have chosen to explore our website which contains terrific resources on a variety of LGBTQI affirming issues in counseling. Over the next few months, we will be adding even more resources on our site. If you have any suggestions on resources, links, tools, or have questions or comments, please do not hesitate to email me at mkocet@yahoo.com.
Our division is continually seeking new leaders to help with our efforts of making the counseling profession affirming of LGBTQI issues. Please click on the link to the right to find out about ways that you can become involved in our professional association.
For this year, my presidential theme is Finding the Spirit Within: Celebrating the Diversity of Spirit in the LGBTQ Community which focuses on spirituality in the LGBTQ community and the many ways that we can celebrate our spirit and humanity! Throughout the year in our newsletter as well as ALGBTIC events during the ACA 2010 Convention in Pittsburgh we will be talking about ways spirituality can be viewed broadly and integrated into affirming practice within the LGBTQ community.
I have established a series of goals for ALGBTIC during this coming year. First, to continue growing our membership through a membership drive which will help bring in new members to our association. Second, to appoint an LGBTQ Inter-Spiritual Task Force who will identify ways to make issues of spirituality, faith, beliefs, and non beliefs welcoming and inclusive for LGBTQ individuals within our division. During the ACA Convention we will be holding a series of events that will aproach spirituality as a social justice issue - to help our own community reclaim our spiritual identities and to celebrate the diversity that exists within the LGBTQ community and to challenge systems of oppression and bigotry regarding spirituality and religion.
My third goal is to appoint a task force to work on revising our current LGBT competencies. The task force will examine ways to integrate new competencies in the areas of bisexuality, spirituality, ally competencies, just to name a few.
The fourth goal will be to revise and provide more current resources on our division website. My goal is to make the ALGBTIC website one of the pre-eminent places for students, faculty, scholars, practitioners, and consumers to get accurate and up-to-date information on a wide range of issues impacting the LGBTQI community.
I will also continue forging collaborative relationships with leaders from other ACA divisions to promote the work that we are doing, as well as to identify ways that our division can partner with others within the American Counseling Association to advocate for ways to promote inclusion, diversity, and social justice in all its forms.
I thank you for the many ways that you provide affirmative help and services to the LGBTQ community - locally, nationally, and beyond.
Please drop me a note at mkocet@yahoo.com and let me know how our division can best serve your needs.
Warmly,
Michael
Highlights from ALGBTIC.org
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Just Added: ALGBTIC Comptencies for Counseling Trangender Clients (pdf document)
2009 ACA Conference Presentations:
Want to Volunteer?
ALGBTIC President Michael Kocet is seeking individuals who are interested in becoming more involved in the division. There are a number of projects that will be taking place during the 2009-2010 year. Learn more about ALGBTIC volunteer opportunities.
ALGBTIC is now offering NBCC Approved Clock Hours!
The National Board for Certified Counselors has approved ALGBTIC to offer continuing education clock hours through our publication the Journal of LGBT Issue in Counseling as well as for live events, such as conferences and workshops. Future editions of the journal will have home-study quizzes which readers may submit with a small fee. Those who pass will earn CE clock hours that can be used towards recertification. In addition, ALGBTIC will be able to offer CE clock hours for workshops, conferences, and similar events that fit within the education guidelines of NBCC. Those state chapters interested in offering CE clock hours for conferences and other live events can apply to use the division approved continuing education provider number by contacting Michael Brubaker at michael.brubaker@uc.edu or by phone (513) 556-9196.
Call for Submissions:
Special Issue of Journal of LGBTQ Issues in Counseling
Counseling Competency with Transgender Clients
Deadline for Proposals: January 30, 2010
The Journal of LGBTQ Issues in Counseling invites submissions for a special issue on
counseling competency with transgender clients. Planned publication date for the special issue is December 2010. The purpose of this special issue is to call the counseling field to consider new and innovative ways to address counseling competency with transgender clients in counselor supervision, training, research, and practice, and advocacy. Proposals should comment on or help practitioners and scholars engage and apply the recently ACA-endorsed Counseling Competencies with Transgender Clients (see wwww.algbtic.org for a pdf of this document). Proposals should also be grounded in social justice, feminist, multicultural, and liberatory frameworks and approaches to working with transgender clients.
The editors of this special issue are interested in research, theory, and practice-based proposals. The emphasis for this special issue is on proposals addressing school, community, university, activist, community-based, and other settings in which counselors work. We are emphasizing submissions that attend to inequities in power, privilege, and access to resources experienced by transgender people from diverse populations through forces such as racism, sexism, heterosexism, classism, ableism, adultism, and ageism within the counseling relationship and counseling setting.
If you are interested in the possibility of authoring an article in this special issue, please submit a 2-3 page double-spaced proposal that specifically addresses your chosen topic. We cannot guarantee acceptance of all proposals, as there will be a peer-review process. We hope to include articles by established scholars in transgender studies and to concurrently highlight new voices in the field. We encourage collaborative authorship with students, community-based organizers, and activists. Finished practice, theory, and research-based articles will be 15 double-spaced manuscript pages in length, not including references. Submissions must be original and not previously published and written in APA-6th ed. Proposals will be reviewed as they are received.
The deadline for proposal submission is 1/30/09. Please submit an electronic copy of your proposal to Dr. Anneliese Singh at asingh@uga.edu and a copy to Dr. Theo Burnes at burnes@upenn.edu. We are happy to discuss the special issue with you by email or phone: Anneliese Singh at (404) 849-8186 or Theo Burnes at (903) 886-5634. After initial review, co-editors will communicate proposal decisions by 2/15/2010. If a proposal is selected, the manuscript will be due by 5/15/2010. Subsequent anonymous, peer-reviews and author revisions according to reviewer feedback will each have 30-day cycles. No extensions will be provided due to the tight timeline for the special issue.
We look forward to receiving your proposal.
Anneliese Singh and Theo Burnes (Special Issue Co-Editors)
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