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The ACES Strategic Planning Committee Report 10/07 This report contains recommendations regarding the ACES Strategic Plan: Our process Premise for changes: First we solidified the mission statement, confirmed the vision statement still flowed from the mission statement, and then went to examine the present iteration of the strategic plan. Our committee was guided to revise the mission statement based on the following definition of mission statement: A mission statement is a brief description of a company's fundamental purpose. A mission statement answer's the question: "Why do we exist?" The mission statement articulates the company's purpose both for those in the organization and for the public. The development of the mission statement was constructed against the following definition of vision statement: A vision statement is a company's inspiration, the framework for all strategic planning. A vision statement does not tell how an organization will get to the future; it does set the direction for planning. Unlike the mission statement, a vision statement is for the company, not for the public. The Strategic Plan from 2004 was seen as cumbersome and lofty in the goals outlined. The committee's task was to narrow the strategic objectives down to 3 (versus the 5-6 that currently existed) and then the tactics also down to 3 with the focus on specificity, measurability, and attainability. Specific tactics are still needed finalization. As a division of the American Counseling Association (ACA) the mission of the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) is to enhance the practice of professional counseling through the promotion of effective counselor education and supervision. ACES advances the generation and dissemination of knowledge that is responsive and respectful of our increasingly diverse world. Vision Statement: ACES will be recognized as a vanguard of change within the counseling profession. We are guided by our commitment to:
promotes teaching, counseling, and supervision methods. 1. Continue scholarly colloquia specifically targeting teaching and supervision methods. B. Promote the development of professional standards that reflect research-supported practices in adherence to the ACES 1. Beginning with the FY08 Budget allocate funds to sponsor research targeting counselor training standards and practices that adhere to the ACES Vision and C. Provide counselor educators and supervisors a "virtual" purpose of advancing teaching and supervision. 1. By October 2009 the ACES Website will include a minimum of 8 electronic media units for open use by membership. Commitment 2. Affirm and deliver education and supervision related to counseling in a culturally diverse society. A. Actively identify and champion efforts to recruit a diverse student and faculty population for all counselor education programs and ACES membership. 1. Develop regional committees to develop guidelines for the recruitment of diverse students and faculty by April 2008 . 2. Regions will report on advancements of this goal by October 2009. B. Promote the diversity of emerging leaders within ACES to assure continual sensitivity to a culturally diverse society. 1. Continue Emerging Leaders' Workshop at National ACES Conferences C. Regular publication of international, cultural, and social justice focus for CES and Spectrum that will broaden the perspectives of counselor education and supervision. 1. CES and SPECTRUM will include a statement that solicits manuscripts that affirms the organizations commitment to diversity by next issue. D. Establish an International Committee within ACES to foster collaborative networks, formal relationships, and a clearinghouse for scholarship. 1. The ACES Web task force will create an international, user-friendly, section of the website (e.g., relevant sections of SPECTRUM) for the dissemination of this scholarship by October 2009. Commitment 3: Promote a unified professional identity for counselors, supervisors, and counselor educators. A. Encourage counseling and counselor education that is preventive and focused on optimal lifespan development through websites, conferences and public relations. 1. For the life of this strategic plan each region will develop a strand specific to optimal lifespan development in their conferences. 2. For the life of this strategic plan each region will develop a strand specific to faculty and supervisor optimal development in their conferences. B. Invite field-based counselor supervisors for involvement within the Association. 1. Actively invite submission of 1 article in CES devoted to the interests of field supervisors. a. CES editor(s) will place a call for such an article in an annual call for manuscripts in SPECTRUM and/or CESNET. 2. Actively invite submission of 1 article in SPECTRUM devoted to the interests of field supervisors. a. SPECTRUM editor will place a call for such an article in an annual call for manuscripts. C. Monitor ACES practices and policies that are aligned with the Vision statement. 1. Conduct triannual (once every 3 years) self-study of ACES practices and policies. a. Past-President will develop, and chair, a sub-committee to carry out the self-study which will commence during the 2010-11 fiscal year. 2. Conduct triannual (once every 3 years) evaluation of the triannual self-study. a. Past-President will develop, and chair, a sub-committee to carry out the evaluation of the triannual self-study which will commence during the 2010-11 fiscal year. Commitment 4: Provide and disseminate premier research and scholarship. A. Promote scholarship at the National ACES conferences. 1. Call for research roundtables that address the benefit and efficacy of CACREP standards for the 2009 Conference. B. Develop a formal research-mentoring initiative by establishing an apprenticeship or coach model for counselor educators and supervisors. 1. Develop a sub-committee to formulate guidelines for a research- mentoring initiative by April 2008. a. Sub-committee to report on the developed guidelines for the EC meeting in June 2008 2. Develop a sub-committee to develop guidelines for counselor education and supervision "Research Pods" to facilitate collaborative research connections a. Sub-committee to develop guidelines for the EC meeting in June 2008 C. Establish an emerging scholars program to showcase the research of doctoral students and junior faculty at the National ACES Conference 2009. research conducted via the research-mentoring initiative. |
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