OSCA Updates

OSCA Professional Development: Breaking the Binary

In January, OSCA hosted a professional development training for our members, titled “Breaking the Binary: Creating Safe and Inclusive School Environments for Queer, Gender Non-Conforming, and Transgender Students.” Leslie Nelson, Yamille Bassi, Marissa Yang Bertucci and Kelsey Kaul, graduate students from Lewis and Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling, kicked off the training with their presentation, “Breaking the Binary.”
 
Karin Moscon (in left photo), civil rights specialist at the Oregon Department of Education, presented the Oregon Guidance for School Districts to create safe environments for Oregon’s transgender students, of which she is an author.

Carrie Fuentes and Alyssa Linares (in right photo), community educators from the Sexual and Gender Minority Youth Center (SMYRC) in Portland, provided further professional development. The day ended with a panel discussion including the presenters and Rafe McCullough, Ph.D., a counselor educator in the school counseling program at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore., who has been involved in advocacy efforts in transgender communities for over 20 years.  

Roberto Aguilar Is ASCA School
Counselor of the Year Finalist

Congratulations to Roberto Aguilar, a school counselor at Milwaukie High School in Milwaukie, Ore., whom ASCA has named a 2019 School Counselor of the Year finalist. Read about Aguilar and the School Counselor of the Year program.
 

Happy National School Counseling Week

 
OSCA celebrated National School Counseling Week by participating in the ASCA Photo Challenge. Our OSCA members had fun posting photos on social media throughout the week.

Colt Gill, ODE’s director of public instruction, and Beth Wigham, CCR/school counseling education specialist	Laura Barbour, OSCA President
Marinda Peters, OSCA Education chair	Emily Sallee, OSCA past president at the Oregon State Capitol,representing OSCA and testifying in support of Adi’s Act, SB 52

OSCA Webinar Series

OSCA is hosting a series of webinars throughout the year. This is a great opportunity to receive additional professional development (and PDUs) for FREE from the comfort of your own home! Access the registration form