Joint Meeting Showcase 

This year’s Joint Meeting Showcase (formerly Carnival) will be on Monday, April 2 at 6:30.  The Showcase theme is “Beach Party” and your membership committee has been working very hard to plan one of our fantastic tables with games and give-aways to promote CCAPS!  We would like to ask that as many of you as possible wear Hawaiian shirts to the Showcase as our table theme is a Luau! 

We are also asking all new, current and past directorate members to approach their institutions to participate in our give-away drive for Showcase Prizes.  Please solicit donations from your institutions and/ or bring give-aways from your counseling centers.  In order to be more conservationist in nature, we are doing a raffle with larger giveaways (baskets filled with our donations) instead of lots of small prizes.  You can bring item to the Directorate meeting on Saturday, 3/31 or the Open meeting on Sunday, April 1. 

Networking Luncheon

The Networking Luncheon is a great way to meet and greet each other and make great connections with counseling center professionals.  We are doing our famous Networking Luncheon a little differently this year at the Joint Meeting.  The luncheon will take place on Sunday, April 1 immediately following the Business meeting at 12:00.  This time however, we will be staying in the same meeting room – Marriott Puerto Rico and will be having food brought in – pizza, sandwiches and salads.  There will be a single price each person will pay for the lunch and it will be very reasonable!  Please plan to attend!

Each One Bring One Campaign

Don’t forget about the EACH ONE BRING ONE campaign.  Basically, you bring as many colleagues as you can to the Joint Meeting! 

Even bringing one other person makes a HUGE difference in raising awareness of CCAPS and the important and noteworthy work we do.  Imagine if each of our over 300 CCAPS members attended the Joint Meeting and brought one other person!  Over 600 college and university Counseling Center professionals would be in one place – LOOK OUT!

AND, the person bringing the most colleagues to the convention will win a FANTASTIC PRIZE at our famous and fun Networking Luncheon on Sunday, April 1, 2007.

CCAPS Mentoring Program

The Membership committee is currently launching the new and FANTASTIC CCAPS Mentoring Program!  The goal of the CCAPS mentoring program is to match seasoned professionals in college and university counseling centers with graduate students and new professionals making their way in the field of higher education and counseling.

The aim is to provide ongoing service to ACPA/CCAPS members by assisting graduate students and new professionals in their growth and development, and offering a way for veterans to provide service to their profession. 

Thanks to the help of the Webpage committee, you will be able to sign up as a mentor or mentee via the CCAPS website.  Your information will be directly submitted to the Membership committee who will then match mentors to mentees and facilitate the beginning of the mentoring relationship!  Please check out the mentoring information on the CCAPS webpage and consider submitting an application!  We need your help to get this great new program rolling!  Information can be found at:  http://www.myacpa.org/comm/ccaps/mentoring.cfm