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The Foundation for Life Care Planning Research granted its Lifetime Achievement Award to Karen Preston at the 20 th Anniversary of the International Symposium on Life Care Planning held in Minneapolis in recognition of her dedication and countless contributions to the field of life care planning. The award singles out an individual who has significantly advanced the field through word and deed by contributing to the body of literature in life care planning, teaching life care planning, work with patients (applied life care planning), and advances in the applications of life care planning and significant improvements in the networking capabilities of life ...
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For Immediate Release : October 7, 2014 The Foundation for Life Care Planning Research (FLCPR) and the International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals (IARP) have agreed to transition the management of the International Symposium on Life Care Planning (ISLCP) from FLCPR to IARP in 2016. The announcement of the transition was made during the 20th anniversary celebration of the Symposium in Minneapolis late last month. The primary focus of the FLCPR is to support research on the reliability and validity of the life care planning process. Founded by Dr. Paul Deutsch in 2002, the Foundation ...
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THE WORD ON THE STREET Building IARP’s Student Path By Judith Iacuzzi In the wide open spaces of Texas burns a hearty enthusiasm for private rehabilitation and IARP, especially in Dallas thanks to the dedication of one man in particular. Tom Selman has led the Texas chapter for 16 of the last 20 years and became a member of IARP in 1989 when its initials were NARPPS, which stood for the National Association of Rehabilitation Professionals in the Private Sector. “In IARP I can talk to any member and learn what’s going on throughout the practice – life care planning, expert witness, case management, etc.,” said the flag-carrying member who ...
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Yesterday, CRCC announced the release of a new video, The Art of Rehabilitation Counseling , on the CRCC YouTube Channel. This new video focuses on the unique qualifications and exceptional abilities of rehabilitation counselors and their stories of success in working with individuals with disabilities. This is the first in a series of videos focused on various topics related to the rehabilitation counseling profession. Take a look at this great new video:
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(Delivered on IARP Letterhead) May 22, 2014 Nora Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer Division of Management Systems Bureau of Labor Statistics, Room 4080 2 Massachusetts Avenue NE, Washington DC 20212 RE: Public Comment of the Proposed Test of the Occupational Requirement Survey Via Fax # 202-691-5111 Dear Ms. Kincaid: The International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals (IARP) is a professional organization founded in 1981 to promote the betterment of people with disabilities and professionals who serve them. IARP has over 2,600 members and represents more than 60% of the current 1,200+ Social Security Vocational ...
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The following announcement is reprinted with permission from NRA. It originally appeared in NRA's Washington Wire, May 21 2014. From: Patricia Leahy, Director of Government Affairs Re: VR/WIA Compromise Reached Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 BREAKING NEWS: A compromise has been reached on the VR/WIA bills which was just announced. I am attaching a copy of the Press Release (which has the legislative language attached to it), a summary and a Press Release on the compromise VR/WIA language. The National Rehabilitation Association and a Coalition of cross-disability organizations have been working individually and collectively to retain RSA ...
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By Judith Iacuzzi Student members of the International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals (IARP) are finding the organization a live and ready conduit into the challenging career of private rehabilitation. Private “rehab” is the area of choice for most all 2,700 members of the association. The recent spurt in IARP’s student members manifests in many regions of the USA, with the Illinois chapter, one of 29 IARP chapters, leading the pack. According to Ed Steffan, Illinois chapter president, 41 “students” -- usually those completing their master’s degree, involved in internships or launching careers -- have joined the chapter ...
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From CRCC: CRCC recently announced the arrival of its new digital CRC View Book, a professional tool that offers students, educators, and rehabilitation counselors all of the up-to-date information about the benefits of CRC certification, the CRC Exam, and certification renewal, all in a simple, easy-to-navigate electronic format. The new digital CRC View Book has a clean, professional design that features the very latest information, with high-definition images celebrating the values and diversity of our profession. The CRC View Book is the first in a series of digital View Books that are scheduled to be published by CRCC in the coming months. Arriving ...
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“Mentoring brings us together – across generation, class, and often race – in a manner that forces us to acknowledge our interdependence, to appreciate, in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words, that ‘we are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied to a single garment of destiny.’ In this way, mentoring enables us to participate in the essential but unfinished drama of reinventing community, while reaffirming that there is an important role for each of us in it.” ~ Marc Freedman In order to be successful within a variety of occupations, aspiring professionals can benefit greatly from mentors. At some point in all of our careers we can think of an individual ...
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February 2014 IN THIS ISSUE: ...
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What do more than 400 Rehab Students know that you don’t? They know that private rehabilitation provides opportunity for exciting, dynamic and rewarding career paths. They also know that IARP will play a recurring role in their professional development, providing critical education at key junctures in their careers and giving them access to an ever-growing body of knowledge and expertise. Most importantly, they know that IARP Membership is FREE for Students! Over the last couple of months, hundreds of Students have joined IARP to: • Tap into the collective experience and expertise of IARP’s thousands of professional members • Gain immediate ...
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[This is a new press release from CACREP and its corporate affiliate CORE - 10/9/2013] For immediate release. Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling Standards and Accreditation Process Now Available CACREP and its corporate affiliate CORE have released the newly adopted Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling Standards (ClRC) for immediate use by master’’s degree counseling programs seeking to become accredited. The standards can be found on the web at either www.cacrep.org or www.core- rehab.org. Along with the release of the Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling Standards, CACREP and its corporate affiliate CORE have developed a conversion policy that outlines ...
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The Council on Rehabilitation Education (CORE) seeks an independent contractor to conduct a project to revise the existing 2009 Graduate Educational Standards required of Rehabilitation Counseling Education (RCE) programs for the professional development of students completing their education through its accredited programs. The project is designed to capture the depth and breadth of the rehabilitation counseling profession within the context of the complex, evolving, and dynamic environment of the profession. Download RFP (PDF)
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A new mobile web site is available for IARP Connect ( http://connect.rehabpro.org ). iPhone, Windows Mobile, Android, Opera Mobile and Blackberry should automatically be redirected to the mobile version of the site when they visit http://connect.rehabpro.org iPad users will not automatically be redirected to the mobile site since the iPad screen is large enough to display the "regular" community site. iPad users can access the mobile site by clicking on the "Mobile" located at the top right of the web page if they choose to do so. I have included a few screen captures from my iPhone below as examples. The landing pages consist of the latest discussion ...
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This article comes from Marsh U.S. Consumer. Marsh provides several of the insurance programs offered to IARP Members. Health Care Reform: Solutions for Employers with Less Than 50 Employees July 2013 ...
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Clearly my first order of business as your new IARP president is to thank those members of the 2012-2013 board who have served this association so earnestly. Kudos to Steve Shedlin for his leadership, vision, and great sense of humor as president for the last two years. Under Steve's leadership, IARP took dramatic steps to transform our association into a more vibrant, contemporary, and relevant community. We have not only a new look, but also a new vibrancy as we chart a new course. Steve will continue to serve our new board of directors for the next year. I extend special gratitude and thanks to Pat Decoteau as outgoing treasurer. His unfortunate ...
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Is Rehabilitation Counseling in Danger? A number of events and actions have been taking place that would indicate the field of rehabilitation counseling as we know it is in imminent danger. This article will address several recent and current movements that could jeopardize the existence of our profession, professional standing, and possibly our very jobs. As many of us know, there has been a movement across the country for unification under the umbrella of Professional Counseling and the LPC license which would include mental health counselors as well as rehabilitation counselors. Many IARP members are already LPCs in their state. While ...
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DEADLINE: JULY 1, 2013 IARP invites interested rehabilitation counseling graduate students to submit papers for presentation at the 2013 IARP Forensic Conference to be held on November 7- 9at the Charleston Marriott in Charleston, South Carolina. All entries must be free-standing papers, written between September 1, 2012 and July 1, 2013. The paper must be done by the student on an independent basis. If two students co-author a paper, both names must be on the submittal application. The submission requirements include an electronic copy of the paper in APA 6th edition style (approximately 15 – 20 pages); a cover page giving the student’s full name, address, ...
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