Upcoming Conferences
Attend the NARACES Conference in New Brunswick, NJ, Friday, September 24-Sunday September 26, 2010 at the earth-friendly (solar-powered!) New Brunswick Hyatt Regency Hotel
Our theme is: NARACES 2010: PROMOTING EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IN CLINICAL MENTAL HEALTH AGENCIES AND K-20 SCHOOLS LOCALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY. We will have exciting guest speakers and creative entertainment on-site and within walking distance nearby in the culinary and arts capitol of central New Jersey. We will also give a "green" discount for persons who travel by bus, train, or hybrid to attend the conference as the hotel is 2 blocks from the Northeast Corridor Amtrak station.
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Deadline April 9, 2010
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
DR. RITA CHI-YING CHUNG
"Time to Walk the Walk: Social Justice Counselors in Action"
Dr. Rita Chi-Ying Chung is a Professor at the Counseling & Development Program. Prior to coming to George Mason University, Dr. Chung was a Project Director for the National Research Center on Asian American Mental Health at UCLA, a consultant for the World Bank, an Assistant Professor at Ohio State University, as well as adjunct faculty for Johns Hopkins University and George Washington University. Before coming to the United States Dr. Chung lived and worked in the Brazil, England, Hong Kong, New Zealand and the Philippines.
Dr. Chung has published extensively in the fields of cross-cultural and multicultural psychology and counseling. She co-authored a book with Drs. Fred Bemak and Paul Pedersen entitled Counseling Refugees: A Psychosocial Approach to Innovative Multicultural Interventions and has authored over 70 journal articles and book chapters on immigrant and refugee mental health and psychosocial adjustment and cross-cultural issues in psychology and counseling. She is currently writing a book with Dr. Fred Bemak entitled Social Justice and Multiculturalism: Application, Theory and Practice in Counseling and Psychotherapy. The book is one of the first written in the psychology and counseling fields and challenges training and practice with an emphasis on redefining the psychologist and counselor's role to include issues of social justice and human rights. This book coincides with a course that Dr. Chung developed and is currently teaching on Counseling and Social Justice.
Dr. Chung received two American Counseling Association Presidential appointments as Chair of ACA International Committee and Committee Member of ACA Human Rights Committee. In 2004 Dr. Chung was also awarded the Counselors for Social Justice (A division of the American Counseling Association) O'hana Honors Award for her work on social justice.Given her research on immigrants and refugees Dr. Chung was invited by the American Psychological Association to do a training video on counseling immigrants.
Dr. Chung has been involved in two Counselors Without Borders projects (http://counselorswithoutborders.org/. ) that brought mental health post-disaster teams on-site after Hurricane Katrina and the San Diego Wildfires.
Dr. Chung is a consultant for Save the Children, U.K. conducting training for Save the Children staff, as well as, examining issues of child protection and child trafficking in Mynamar (Burma). She was working in Burma during the 2008 Cyclone Nargis and provided post-disaster training for national staff. Given her work on child trafficking Dr. Chung was invited to present at the United Nations in New York on cultural perspectives on children trafficking, human rights and social justice.
Information copied from http://cehd.gmu.edu/people/faculty/rchung/
Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy is Professor and Chair of the Department of Counseling and Human Services at Johns Hopkins University. She earned a Ph.D. in counseling and educational development from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), an M.Ed. in school counseling, and a B.S. in elementary education both from the University of Virginia. Prior to her appointment as Professor at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Holcomb-McCoy was an Associate Professor in the Department of Counseling and Personnel Services at the University of Maryland, College Park. She also served as the Director of the School Counseling Program at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (1996-1998). Her areas of research specialization include the measurement of multicultural self-efficacy in school counseling, measuring high school college-going culture, and best practices in urban school counselor preparation. Dr. Holcomb-McCoy was recently the principal investigator of a three-year research project funded by The College Board that examined school counselors’ impact on the college-going rates of urban high school students (2006-2009).
Dr. Holcomb-McCoy is a nationally recognized expert in school counseling. She has authored over 40 articles in refereed national journals and is the author of the best-selling school counseling book entitled, “
School Counseling to Close the Achievement Gap: A Social Justice Framework for Success” (Corwin Press). She has served as guest editor for the
Professional School Counseling journal and is currently co-editing a special issue on school-family-community partnerships in that same journal. Dr. Holcomb-McCoy has been a presenter at international, national, and state conferences and her professional colleagues have recognized her with awards for outstanding counselor education and research, excellence in teaching, and exemplar service. In 2009, she was awarded the prestigious
Mary Smith Arnold Anti-Oppression Award at the American Counseling Association conference in Charlotte NC. And in 2007, the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development (AMCD) selected her for the Exemplary Diversity Leadership Award. In 2008, Dr. Holcomb-McCoy was selected by Maryland’s State Superintendent, Nancy Grasmick, to be a member of the
Achievement Initiative for Maryland’s Minority Students (AIMMS) Steering Committee.
Dr. Holcomb-McCoy currently serves on the editorial boards of the
Professional School Counseling journal,
Journal of Specialists in Group Work, and the
Counselor Education and Supervision journal. She is an ad-hoc reviewer for the
Black Women, Gender, & Families journal. Dr. Holcomb-McCoy is the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) Diversity Professional Network Chairperson and is a consultant for The College Board’s National Office of School Counselor Advocacy (NOSCA) and The Education Trust.
A former elementary school counselor and kindergarten teacher in Montgomery County (MD) Schools, Dr. Holcomb-McCoy resides with her husband and two children in Potomac, Maryland where she enjoys cooking, gardening, and collecting African Art.