Welcome from the President

Welcome school counselors!

Thank you for stopping by our website. I hope you find our wealth of resources and membership opportunities helpful and you consider being a member, if you are not already. 

As you think about becoming a member or consider why you continue your membership, I want to encourage you to take advantage of the resources that ISCA provides, as well as resources from ASCA - our parent organization. The Annual Conference is a great opportunity to access these resources each year, as well as the counselor list-serve that allows you to get quick feedback from other counselors across the state.

The ISCA board aligns our organization to the national model by developing a mission and vision, reviewing our data, and setting goals to determine our activities for the school year. As a member or possible member of our organization, I think it is important that you know and understand what drives board decisions and actions and are able to align your own work with ours. Our mission and vision are listed below:

Mission
The mission of the Iowa School Counselor Association is to provide advocacy for and support to Iowa’s school counselors as they implement school counseling programs in line with the ASCA National Model.

Vision

• Advocacy:  Develop relationships between school counselors and key stakeholders & key agencies.
• Communications: Increase communication based specifically on the use/needs of school counselors.
• Marketing: Promote ISCA as go to resource for Iowa School counselors
• Emerging Leaders: Cultivate leadership opportunities for all school counselors.

Thank you to our members for continuing to support ISCA and If you have questions or need help connecting to experienced school counselors, please feel free to reach out to me or any of our board members.

Jaclyn Lussenhop
President