It is a honor to serve as president–elect. I would like to encourage all NCACES members to begin thinking about presentations for the 2004 Conference. I look forward to seeing you in Saint Louis.

      Call for Proposals

North Central Association for Counselor Education and Supervision Conference

October 7- 9, 2004

Saint Louis, Missouri 

Community-University Partnerships in Counselor Education

 The theme of the 2004 NCACES Conference reflects a powerful trend across America to create university-community partnerships that contribute to and revitalize communities. The focus of this conference will be to showcase the partnership work being conducted by NCACES members within their communities and to provide members with best practices, opportunities, and challenges for building partnerships.  By partnering with community-based organizations, local governments, and school districts counselor educators are helping to improve the social conditions of their neighboring communities while providing opportunities for themselves and students to apply academic knowledge to real-world conditions.   Such partnerships bring communities and counseling programs together as equal partners and create opportunities for collaboration as well as healthier communities.  Counselor educators can meet teaching, research and service requirements through partnerships by providing avenues for faculty collaboration, service learning, grant writing and community based research.   In addition, partnerships can provide opportunities for counselor education programs to address specific CACREP standards otherwise difficult to attain. NCACES members are encouraged to submit proposals describing successful community-university partnerships they have forged in their communities.  In addition, proposals are being solicited would which address any of the following partnership topics.

Historical Perspective on Community Partnerships

Scholarship Significance of Partnerships and Scholarship

Best Practices and Principles of Partnerships

Community Perspective on Partnerships

Partnerships with Urban and Rural School Districts

Service Learning and Partnerships

Grant opportunities for Partnerships

Partnership Evaluation and community-based research

Challenges to Community Partnerships

Recognition of Community Partnerships for Promotion and Tenure

Please type all information. Program chairs must be NCACES members. All communication regarding this program proposal will be directed to the program chair. The chair will be responsible for communicating program status to co-presenters. Program submissions should be limited to 2 per person.

Program Chair's name:_______________________________

Phone:__________________

Institution: ________________________________________

FAX: __________________

Address:  ________________________________________________________________    

E-mail:  ________________________________________________________________  

Name, Work Address and E-mail of Co-Presenters:

Program title:

45-word convention program abstract:

200 word abstract for the program review committee describing the program in detail:

Type of Program (check one):  

_____ Content Session             _____ Focused Discussion Group  

_____ Research Session           _____ Poster Session  

_____ Experiential Session

If you submit a program proposal for a Content, Research, Experiential or Focused Discussion, would you be willing to have it considered for a poster session?

_____ YES _____ NO

Room arrangements (except for Poster Sessions):

Equipment Needs:   ____ Overhead Projector _____ White Board/Flip Chart _____ Other:

* LCD’s and computer laptops will NOT be provided

Submit:

1. Two copies of this proposal no later than June 1, 2004.

2. Written confirmation of attendance by all participants.

3. Notification regarding receipt of proposal will be via email.

4. Stamped self-addressed envelope (for notice of acceptance/rejection of proposal).

5. All presenters must register for the conference.