Counselors for Social Justice is a community of counselors, counselor educators, graduate students, and school and community leaders who seek equity and an end to oppression and injustice affecting clients, students, counselors, families, communities, schools, workplaces, governments, and other social and institutional systems.

CSJ is committed to:

• Implementing social action strategies including the Advocacy Competencies through collaborative alliances with other entities both within and outside of ACA, counseling and counselor education programs, pre-K-16 schools and community organizations.

• Disseminating social justice scholarship about sociopolitical and economic inequities facing counselors and clients/students in schools and communities.

• Challenging oppressive systems of power and privilege.

• Maintaining an active support network online and in person for engaging in social justice activities in schools and communities.

• Providing lively professional development to enhance counselor, counselor educator, and graduate student competency in social justice advocacy via ACA annual conference programs (Day of Learning), branches, regions, counselor education programs, pre-K-16 schools, and community
  agencies.

• Maintaining social justice advocacy resources online.