National Employment Counseling Association (NECA)

Description

An association of professionals dedicated to helping people prepare for, enter, understand and progress in the world of work.

Member benefits

Journal of Employment Counseling: Learn about new methods and program designs from your peers. (Quarterly)
Monthly E-News-Late breaking news in employment counseling.
Annual Workshop: Join us and network with some of the most successful Employment Counselors on the Planet.
Informative Website: Links to useful websites, Association information, latest trends in workforce development. Updated daily.
Establish Employment Counseling Competencies: National skill standards you can download off our website. Now being used in One Stop and STW programs, counseling education programs, staff job descriptions, and TANF programs.
Continuing Education Units: Obtain 16-18 hours at the NECA Annual Workshop for use with your NCC, NCCC, LPC and other licenses.
Peer-to-Peer Network: Whether a counselor educator, career counselor in private practice, or case manager in job training or TANF or One Sto

Mission / Aims

NECA was founded to offer professional leadership to people who counsel in an employment service or career development setting or to those employed in related areas of counselor education, research, administration or supervision. Our members come from a diversity work settings including private practice, business and industry, community agencies, colleges, universities, federal, state and local government.

Principal activities

Helps Private Practice Counselors Understand Technology & the Labor Market
Helps Counselors Market Their Business
Encourages the professional development of those counseling in an employment or career development setting.
Promotes the use of job information tools and techniques to better serve the client.
Contributes to the advancement of the field through research.
Examines legislation and issues influencing employment counseling, career choices and job opportunities.

Training / Licensing / Certification

Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF)
GCDF Instructor Certification

Affiliations

We are member of:

Division of the American Counseling Association

They are our members:

Michigan Employment Counselors Association

New Jersey Career Development and Employment Counseling Association

South Dakota Employment and Career Counselors Association