We’re pleased to release ESSENTIAL: The Roles and Impacts of the University and College Counseling Center—a position paper that clarifies the roles counseling centers play across the campus ecosystem and offers practical direction as well as aspirational visioning for the future of our profession.

From Lynn Braun, AUCCCD President: “ESSENTIAL shines a light on the horizon of what our future can, and perhaps should, be—and helps all of us, including our campus partners, understand the ways in which college counseling center professionals are essential to the ecosystem of a campus community.”

What’s inside

• A framework for moving beyond a “crisis-only” narrative toward intentional, proactive campus collaboration.
• Concrete ways counseling centers contribute to student success, community wellbeing, and institutional resilience.
• Prompts to engage campus partners and align efforts across a coordinated ecology of support.

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