International Association for Resilience and Trauma Counseling
A Division of the American Counseling Association
IARTC Mission: To enhance the quality of life for people and communities worldwide by promoting the development of professional counselors; by advancing the ideals of the American Counseling Association, the counseling profession, and the ethical practice of counseling through trauma-informed practices; and, by nurturing respect for human dignity, cultural inclusivity, and resilience.
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To the good people in Ukraine, please know that many in the world stand with you. You are in our hearts and minds daily. There is a group of Professional Mental Health Counselors in the United States that particularly understands the kind of strain you are bravely enduring now. We are the International Association for Resilience and Trauma Counseling, an Affiliate of the American Counseling Association. We hope we can share with you resources and human contact for healing in the near future. The days are long and the nights are darker now. We stand with you and hope for the sunrise that brings peace, security, grace, and encouragement for all of you. It will be a long road, and we hope that we can walk that road with you, when the time comes, in any way that we can. Ϲлава Україні!
"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's
life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
IARTC is committed to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Understanding, and Empathy. We work to promote ethnic and racial empathy and understanding. IARTC continues to advocate, advance, and improve educational, professional, and leadership opportunities for members from diverse cultural backgrounds. IARTC denounces all forms of racism.
IARTC Conference Committee
Conference Committee: The Chair of the Conference Committee is the President-Elect. This committee oversees all aspects of developing and hosting a bi-annual (every other year) Conference for IARTC members, including budget, speakers, volunteers, registrations, location set-up and clean up, sponsors, exhibitors and exhibit hall, speaker technology, speaker gifts, accommodations (both in person and virtual), signage, name tags and conference bags, graduate student mentoring and activities; branded items, promotion and publicity, conference program/brochure/mobile app, speaker evaluations, Continuing Education needs, and other duties as assigned. Proposed first IARTC Conference will be in Spring 2023. This committee will need 9-18 members, divided equally among Presentation/Program planning; Registrations; On-site check-in/registration; Publicity/Promotion; Exhibitors/Sponsors; Conference Program/Brochure/Mobile App; Graduate Student Activities; Technology; and Evaluation/Continuing Education. This committee will facilitate IARTC’s presence at the annual ACA Conference and Exposition. For the ACA Conference and Exposition, the Committee will secure a table for IARTC in the exhibition hall, ensure signage, branded items, recruiting, and assigning volunteer table coverage for the exhibit hall, and other duties as assigned.
Meet The Team
