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Community Service
PARENT ADVOCATES DOWN SYNDROME
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ALCA Chapter IV will be participating in the 9th Annual Alabama PADS
Walk to raise awareness and funds for Down Syndrome. the walk will
take place on Sunday, October 19, 2:00-4:00 PM in Regions Park.
For more information about the PADS organization (Parent Advocates Down Syndrome) and the upcoming PADS Walk...
Click Here for the Down Syndrome of
Alabama Website
Click Here for PADS Walk Info Pamphlet (Front)
Click Here for PADS Walk Info
Pamphlet (Back)
After the PADS Walk event,
a Chapter IV Membership Meeting will take place.
Chapter IV
Needs Survey
REQUESTING MEMBER FEEDBACK
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ALCA Chapter IV is requesting valuable feedback from its members.
A survey has been devised so that we can best assess and meet the needs
of our membership. Please take just a few minutes to fill it out and let
us hear from you about how we can make Chapter IV great. The information
you give us will be valuable in planning future Chapter IV activities.
Click Here for Interest Survey
Chapter IV
Fights Hunger Globally & Locally
BIRMINGHAM CROP HUNGER WALK
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ALCA Chapter IV is currently forming a team for the upcoming third
annual 5K Birmingham CROP Hunger Walk on Sunday, April 13 on Southside
in Rushton Park. Registration begins at 1:45. The walk
begins at 2:30.
CROP means Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty. This is an excellent community service opportunity and a worthwhile cause!
On Sunday, April 13, 2008, Birmingham joins thousands of communities around the country in the CROP Walk for Hunger Relief. CROP Walks raise money for local and world hunger as well as disasters throughout the United States like Hurricane Katrina.
Funds raised by the 5 kilometer walk through Birmingham's beautiful Southside Neighborhood will support the local hunger and poverty programs of Greater Birmingham Ministries as well as the national and international programs of Church World Service.
Church World Service, one of the oldest and largest ecumenical relief and development organizations, works in 80 countries supporting relief efforts such as refugees in Sudan, famine victims in Niger, tsunami victims in Indonesia, and schools, health clinics, agricultural assistance in the world's poorest communities.
Church World Service is also one of the first relief organizations called in by FEMA whenever there is a federal disaster. So far, CWS has assisted evacuees in shelters with approximately 30,000 blankets, 40,000 health kits and school kits, and medicine boxes able to assist 20,000 people for 3 months. With a focus on the most vulnerable survivors (poor families, disabled persons, elderly victims, children), CWS has issued an appeal for 9.5 million dollars and is planning long term recovery and rebuilding assistance to communities in hurricane affected areas.
CROP Walks are family
events and everyone is encouraged to join in. All faiths, all schools,
civic groups, and businesses are invited to participate.
Contact Tracey Deal to join the Chapter IV Team:
531-0316 / lovepcgd@aol.com
Visit the Birmingham CROP Walk website for more info:
FALL MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
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ALCA Chapter IV and ALMHCA (Alabama Mental Health Counselors
Association) partnered to bring Jefferson & Shelby County
counselors together! The Fall Membership Meeting, entitled,
"Let's Come Together," was held on Thursday, September 13, 6:00-8:00 PM. The
event, complete with refreshments and activities, was held at
Margarita's Grill, in Pelham, on Highway 119.
SUMMER MEETING
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The
ALCA Chapter IV Summer Meeting took place on Tuesday, July 17,
at 5:30 PM, at McAllister's in Wildwood.
The meeting was led by Chapter IV President, Tracey Deal.
Among the topics covered: Award Nominations and the "Coming
Together" Fall Membership Meeting.
SPRING MEETING
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ALCA Chapter IV hosted its Spring Meeting on Tuesday, April
3, at Jim n Nicks at Five Points in Southside,
1908 11th Ave South.
We had a well-attended brief business meeting to elect officers and discuss our
community service project. Afterwards, it was social time! Chapter IV
provided refreshments.
Members brought items to donate to SafeHouse (a shelter for women and
children that are fleeing their abusive situation). Items to donate
include toiletries, linens, coloring books/crayons, small journals/pens,
etc. SafeHouse is moving to a new location and will be happy to have
anything we can provide!
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
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Chapter IV was represented by Ashley Hampton (President) and Tracey
Deal (President Elect) at the recent ALCA Executive Council meeting on
Friday, March 2 in Columbiana.
Pictured here are all the Executive Council members who are from Chapter
IV (from left to right, back to front): Debbie Grant (Journal Editor),
Ashley Hampton (Chapter IV President), Carol Turner (Ads & Exhibits
Chair), Gary Williams (ALCA Awards Chair), Leashia Moody-Miller (ALAAOC
President), Tracey Deal (Chapter IV Pres Elect), Michael Lebeau
(Parliamentarian), Katharine Nichols (ALCA Secretary), Jerri Lynn Morrow
(ALCA President Elect), Anita Neuer (ALCA Awards Chair), Judy Childress
(Newsletter Editor)
NEWS
n Chapter IV Members Win State Awards
Chapter IV members were
nominated for ALCA Awards. Winners were announced at the Awards Breakfast on Wednesday morning (November
15) at the ALCA Fall Conference.
Chapter/Division Outstanding Member Awards: Judy Childress (Chapter IV), Steve Jordan (ALMHCA), Donna Melder (AGLBICAL)
Chapter/Division Publication Award: Anita Neuer (ALMHCA Newsletter
Editor)
Chapter/Division Service award: Michael Lebeau (AGLBICAL Website
Manager)
Individual Publication Award: Dr. Jeane Lee & Dr. Mary Bartlett (Nominated by Chapter IV)
Research
Award: Dr. Mary Bartlett (Nominated by Chapter IV)
Outstanding
Practitioner Award: Dr. Judith Harrington
Fannie R.
Cooley Award for Distinguished Professional Development: Michael
Lebeau
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n Chapter IV Members Present at Fall Conference
Chapter IV
was well represented at this year’s ALCA Fall Conference. Chapter IV
members were among the many content session presenters. We
would like to acknowledge our members who conducted sessions:
-- AGLBICAL
Roundtable – Donna Melder and Frank Hrabe
-- Reduce Youth Substance Abuse: High School Peer Helpers Train
Middle School Peer Helpers – Anne Hartline, Tricia Ferguson, Ann
Hastings, Rachel Sizemore
-- Twenty-First Century
School Counseling: How to Participate in Data-Driven Action
Research – Barry Stephens and Jennifer Spry
-- Paxils and Valiums and
Bayers…Oh My! A Demystifying Medication Primer for Non-prescribing
Mental Health Professionals – Gary Williams
-- Skills Employers Value
– Michael Lebeau
-- Supervision for School
Counselors: What is Needed? – Linda Foster, Regina Turner, and
Kenya Bledsoe
-- Retired Counselors
Group – Past, Present, and Future Concerns – Judy Childress
-- Making Your Counseling
Program the HEART of Your School – Jo Ann Huddleston, Barbara
Gajewski, and Terri Sowell
-- Mental Health and
Deafness: Facts and Myths – Shannon Reese
-- Life Coaches – Threat
or Complement to the Counselor Profession? – Gary Williams
and Anita Neuer
-- Impact of Substance
Abuse on the Family System – Debbie Grant
-- Out in the Workplace: Gay & Lesbian Issues for Career Counselors
- Michael Lebeau
-- Using a Challenge
Course Experience to Enhance a Graduate Group – Larry Tyson and
Barry Stephens
-- Ethical and Legal
Considerations for Counseling Clients Who Are HIV or AIDS Positive –
Anna C. Johnston
-- How to Impact Small
Group Skills in Elementary Schools – Dana Waldrop and Lynn Wasylenko
-- Counseling
Coordinators/Supervisors: Tips and Tools for Implementing Your
Comprehensive Counseling and Guidance Program – Sherri Savage
-- Navigating NBPTS
Certification in Counseling – Celeste Neil and Judy Stoppelbein
-- Using Personality TYPE
to Strengthen Career Management Skills – Anita Neuer
-- When Your Client Is
Deaf – Patti Sheets
-- The RISCA (Rhode Island
School Counselor Association) Toolkits Approach to Implementing
Comprehensive School Counseling Programs – Celeste Neil and Sherri
Savage
-- Innovative Counseling
Interventions for the School Counselor II – Laura G. Witcher
-- Using Challenge Course
Games/Initiatives to Support Classroom Guidance or Small Group
Counseling Sessions – Larry Tyson
-- The Impact of Racial
Identity Development and Career Thoughts Among Minority High School
Students – Michael Brooks
-- Advocacy Counseling:
Moral and Spiritual Perspectives – Glenda Elliott and Angela Stowe
ANNOUNCEMENTS
n Chapter IV Adopts Community Service Project
This year, Chapter IV officers decided that Chapter IV will
participate in a community service project as part of our year’s
goals. We have chosen to assist the SafeHouse of Shelby County. As
most of you know, they help women and children who are escaping
domestic violence. Their major service area is Hoover and Clay,
Coosa and Shelby counties, but they do accept clients from other
areas in times of crisis. During their last fiscal year, SafeHouse
sheltered 191 people, responded to 1,330 hotline calls, provided 195
outreach services, 57 child advocacy services, 1,060 group
counseling hours and more than 500 individual counseling hours.
This is an excellent organization! Since I worked in Shelby County
for many years, I had opportunities to observe this caring
assistance to families in crisis (as many of you do, too).
According to Phylis Simmons, Volunteer Coordinator, SafeHouse is
moving into a new facility in early 2007 and have many needs to
fulfill – mostly in the area of supplying linens for rooms/baths and
serviceable china and silverware for the kitchen and dining areas.
Another continuing need is individual welcoming packets for
clients. Most leave home quickly without having a chance to pack
bags, so they are grateful for toiletries and other individual needs
of daily living.
At the Chapter IV meeting/reception at Fall Conference, we will have
a basket available to accept monetary contributions and/or donations
for the welcome packets. Ideas include: hairbrushes, toothbrushes,
toothpaste, deodorant, lotions, socks, underwear, sweatsuits,
diapers, journals and pens PLUS any other items that you can think
of to make these women and children more comfortable. As you are
buying your supplies to take to Mobile, please buy extras to
donate!! If we get enough money, we could adopt a room in the new
house!
If you wish to have more information about
this worthwhile project, email me at
childressj@charter.net.
Please visit their website at
www.safehouse.org.
RECENT ACTIVITIES
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August 31, 2006: Chapter IV Come Together
6:00-7:30 at Loco’s in Wildwood
Networking event for mental health counselors and school counselors
Over 30
counselors from the state of Alabama attended the “Chapter IV
Counselors Come Together” event held at Loco’s in Birmingham in
August. Attendees work at a variety of settings and spent the
evening catching up with friends and making new friends! Good food
and door prizes completed the event. Chapter IV would like to thank
ALMHCA for co-sponsoring this event and encouraging their membership
to attend! Look for next year’s “Come Together” to be bigger and
better!
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November 15-17, 2006: ALCA Fall Conference in Mobile, Alabama
Chapter IV Meeting, Thursday Night, November 16
at 5:30 in Suite 610 at the Riverview Plaza Hotel.
The event included a Welcome from President Ashley Hampton, an Introduction of Officers, Comments from
President Elect Tracey Deal, and Comments from Past President Judy Childress.
Food, fun, and door prizes were also included!
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Here for Photos