Latest News
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ACPE's 2025 CoP Funding Request Applications are Now open!
Sep 6, 2024
All applications must be received by, 2024. Dear CoP Convener: Communities of Practice play an important part in sustaining and enhancing the work and lives of ACPE, our Educators, CECs, practitioners, and psychotherapists. They provide community, learning, and growth, and offer an important connection to the larger organization of the ACPE. Thank you for all you do in leading and supporting your CoP!
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For Your Professional Ethics Edification
Sep 2, 2024
The ACPE Professional Ethics Commission (PEC) purpose is to educate our members about ethics issues and processes. Each month we post a commissioner’s reflection* on ethics concerns, including our ethics process. 5. In conducting business matters, ACPE members: implement sound fiscal practices, maintain accurate financial records, and protect the integrity of funds entrusted to their care. For September, Jarda Alexander, ACPE Certified Educator, Decatur, GA writes: ACPE Certified Educators, regardless of positional authority, have responsibility for implementing sound fiscal practices, maintaining accurate financial records, and protecting the integrity of funds entrusted to our care.
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The Call to Care for People
Sep 2, 2024
Happy Labor Day, Colleagues. I hope that each of you are taking some time for yourselves and your families. The “Call to Care for People” can become all-consuming, and we often neglect ourselves and those we love while “serving” others. During this last summer holiday, I hope you intentionally enjoy the moments. As with all tragedies, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted our lives at an inconvenient time for our Association. Many of us were wrestling to acclimate to several changes throughout the organization, and the addition of our psychotherapist colleagues was of great significance.
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ACPE Foundation Announces 2024 Mission Advancement Program (MAP) Fund Grant Awards to Support Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy Projects
Aug 26, 2024
At their August 2024 board meeting, the ACPE Foundation approved funding the following grant projects to support ACPE Psychotherapist and Practitioner members in advancing and raising awareness about pastoral counseling and spiritually integrated psychotherapy. These grants are made possible through the generous gifts of our donors to the ACPE Foundation MAP Endowment Fund. To support this meaningful work, make a gift here or contact Jasmine Okafor for more information.
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Accreditation and Student Unit Fee Increases
Aug 26, 2024
Dear ACPE Community, During our spring meeting, the ACPE Finance Committee carefully examined the need to increase membership dues and program fees. The committee deemed it imperative to the organization's health and vitality to consider changes to meet programmatic and administrative needs as ACPE looks to increase member services and continue support for our programs and members. Notably, accreditation fees have remained unchanged since 2020, and individual memberships have remained unchanged for over 20 years. Given this long-standing stability in our fee structure, the Finance Committee has emphasized the necessity of some fee increases to address the impact of inflation and the need to grow our membership services resources.