Thank you for your powerful and inspiring words, Michael. As editor of the CSJ Activist http://www.counselorsforsocialjustice.org/newsletter.html, the Counselors for Social Justice newsletter, I would like to publish a version of your words for all the counseling membership to consider.

To the rest of this NIMC email group, I would like to invite you to peruse our newsletter, available pdf at the link above, to write commentaries and/or brief papers about multiculturalism, peace psychology, or social justice to be published in upcoming editions of the CSJ Activist.

I am very honored to work alongside all of you and look forward to continuing to fight the good fight for social justice and progressive change in our nation and world.

In our little corner of the world Illinois Counselors for Social Justice (ICSJ) is trying to work locally towards these goals. ICSJ initiatives this year include:

School Equity Initiative

* Focused on creating greater equity in the schools on a range of issues including the achievement gap.

* In partnership with the Illinois School Counselor Association.

Respectful Counseling Conduct Initiative

* Focused on empowerment, prevention, and advocacy relevant to safe and effective counseling relationships.

We are also beginning a series of retreats and mini-retreats to bring hearts and heads together in social justice in counseling and the world. Our first of such retreats will be in the SW suburbs of Chicago Saturday the 27th of this month. Please contact me if you want to know more about this.

I am off to our state counseling association conference, but hope to hear from many of you upon my return.

Mahalo,

Hugh Crethar

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