Delaware Professional Counselors Association's Mission

The purposes of the Delaware Professional Counselors Association are as follows:

• Advance the profession and practice of professional counseling.
• Promote the exchange of professional information and networking among counselors by means of a website, and other scientific, educational, professional materials and publications.
• Provide continuing education opportunities through conferences, workshops, and other means that assist professional mental health counselors and others in updating and enhancing their competencies.
• Promote standards for the training and credentialing of professional counselors.
• Promote research studies into the effectiveness of clinical  interventions and related professional issues.
• Promote positive relations with other professional organizations for effective advocacy of counseling-relating issues.
• Promote programs of public awareness and effective public relations to enhance recognition of professional counseling and its practitioners.
• Promote high standards for credentialing of professional mental health counselors by advocating for equitable licensure in every state and for national counselor certification.