Wisconsin School Counselor Association, Inc.

Our Mission:

To advance the profession of school counseling in preschool through post secondary in order to maximize the educational, academic, vocational and personal-social growth of each student.

Annual Conference

Sharing: One Vision, One Voice

WSCA Annual Conference
February 18-20, 2009
Country Springs Hotel
Stevens Point, WI

Phil Burley, WSCA President

On behalf of the Wisconsin School Counselor Association Board I want to extend a warm invitation for you to attend next year’s WSCA Conference. Each year I look forward to the professional excitement that is generated in all of us in Stevens Point. School counseling programs are strong and the delivery of great programs that impact the lives of the students we serve is sometimes immeasurable. WSCA maintains a healthy relationship with the American School Counselor Association to provide our membership with the leadership and information necessary to complete our mission. It is hoped that by your attendance at next year’s conference, you will take away information that will assist you in your work setting.

For almost two decades, John Bowen and the conference team have consistently provided informative keynotes, sectional speakers, and entertainment that exceeds all other school counselor conferences. This year’s conference promises to exceed all previous conferences and will be outstanding!

Please mark your calendars and join us at the 2009 WSCA Conference.

Wisconsin Education Standards

The WSCA Conference supports the following Wisconsin Pupil Service Professional, Teacher, and Administrator Standards:

  • Pupil Services Professional Standards – 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7
  • Teacher Standards – 2, 3, and 8
  • Administrator Standards – 1, 3, and 5

NBCC Contact Hours

NBCC Contact hours will be awarded for school and licensed professional counselors.

The Afterglow

The Afterglow will once again hold up its tradition of being enormously funny and entertaining. If you like to laugh out loud and enjoy having a good time, then don’t miss out on the clean comedy at the Afterglow on Thursday evening. Hope to see you there!

Camp Heartland - Milwaukee, WI

Camp Heartland is the largest camping and care program for children who experience HIV/AIDS. It is a national non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of children, youth and their families facing HIV/AIDS, poverty, grief, and other significant life challenges. In 1993, inspired by Nile Sandeen, Neil Willenson founded Camp Heartland—a summer camp program that accepted both children infected with AIDS and children who were affected by the disease. It was a summer camping program where children living with HIV/AIDS could step out of the shadows of secrecy into the light of openness and honesty—a place where they could have the best week of their lives. What began as Neil’s quest to give one little boy a week of friendship and summertime fun, has now become a year-round community making a life-long impact for hundreds of children and their families.

Since 1994, Camp Heartland’s Journey of Hope AIDS Awareness Program has traveled throughout the United States on a mission of increasing HIV awareness, prevention, education, and testing. The speakers on the tour are children affected by HIV, poverty, and other challenges. Camp Heartland annually serves thousands of suffering and at-risk children in the United States including those who experience poverty, HIV/AIDS, grief, foster care, Tourette’s Syndrome, and other obstacles. Over 80 percent of Camp Heartland’s participants live in poverty. As most of the children cannot afford tuition, through the generosity of thousands of individuals, corporations, and foundations, Camp Heartland’s programs and services are provided free of charge to all participants. It is a light in the darkness for children who live every day of their lives in a thickly shadowed world of chronic illness and discrimination.

We are asking attendees to make cash donations to Camp Heartland. It is a simple way to help others. Look for the donation boxes at the registration table, the opening ceremony, and Friday’s President’s Brunch. Checks should be made payable to Camp Heartland.