President’s Message A Brand New Year
A clean slate on which to write our hopes and dreams. This year I will spend Less time and energy on things and more time and energy on people. All of life’s best rewards, deepest and finest feelings, greatest satisfactions, come from people-- people like you.
I trust that all of you have found time to re- group and recharge over the holidays! Each new year presents an opportunity to identify those things that bring meaning to our lives and to find better ways to connect as indi- viduals, as families, and as communities. Since my fall message, your Executive and a dedicated and hardworking Board of Di- rectors have been very busy with a number of items that will affect CCPA members – 5000+ strong!.
• The recruitment call for new members to the Ethics Committee, Complaints Division was successful! As a next step, five to six webinars will be presented from January to March to orient new members to the com- mittee. Thank you to those who stepped forward!
• The Public-Facing website (http://talkingcan-
help.ca/) is written in plain language for your clients. I have found it helpful to direct individuals to the site when they have ques- tions about the roles and responsibilities of counsellors and psychotherapists or if they are looking for a Canadian Certified Counsel- lor. Other sections of the site include use- ful resources, a glossary of common mental
A brand new year!
health issues, a wonderful list of “Helping you with…. The A to Z list,” and FAQs. Please take a moment to acquaint yourself with the site.
• CCPA is continuing to develop and support our latest certificate – Canadian Certified Counsellor - Supervisor (C.C.C.-S.). The grad- uate level online supervision course is once again being offered through the University of Ottawa from January to April 2014 and a number of webinars on supervision have also been developed to support the certifi- cate- and the good news is, these webinars are open to all! By the way, Beth Robinson is offering an intermediate level workshop on supervision in Victoria in May. (
http://www.ccpa-accp.ca/en/supervisorworkshop/)
• The Awards Committee has created a new award – the CCPA Indigenous Practitioner Award to honour excellence in advancing culturally congruent counselling and psy- chotherapy services for Indigenous People in Canada. Behind the scenes our members are busy this month reviewing award nomi- nee entries to be announced at the upcom- ing CCPA Conference in Victoria.
• Regulation of the profession is on the mind of many! Trish McCracken, Ontario Anglo- phone Director, has been busy updating Ontario members about her experiences of completing the mandatory jurispru- dence module. She has also developed a powerpoint on creating a portfolio to pre- pare members for their applications to the College of Registered Psychotherapists in Ontario (
http://www.ccpa-accp.ca/en/ontarioregula- tion/). In New Brunswick, Serge Hall is busy with the Federation (AFCONB, NBACT, and NBPCA) that has the goal of obtaining regu-
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