{"id":68553,"date":"2015-12-03T08:51:08","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T14:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=68553"},"modified":"2015-12-03T08:51:08","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T14:51:08","slug":"counseling-students-lead-the-way-at-mississippi-counseling-association-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2015\/12\/counseling-students-lead-the-way-at-mississippi-counseling-association-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Counseling students lead the way at Mississippi Counseling Association Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A group of 12\u00a0Delta State counseling graduate students attended and volunteered at the Mississippi\u00a0Counseling Association Conference held in Biloxi in early November.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Through the advocacy of Delta State\u00a0faculty, each student was able to volunteer for the conference and have their registration fee waived. As volunteers, they attended\u00a0all content sessions and provided facilitation to the presenters. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Quinton Smith, counseling student and Chi Sigma Iota Delta State\u00a0Chapter president said, \u201cAttending MCA\u2019s annual conference was a rewarding opportunity to not only learn new information in the field of counseling, but also to network with counseling professionals and other graduate students from all over the state of Mississippi.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The\u00a0students received many accolades from organizers of the conference. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;The Delta State University volunteers were definitely appreciated at the recent Mississippi Counseling Association conference,&#8221; said Dianne D. Speed, MCA past president and MCA past executive director. &#8220;I was very impressed with the students&#8217; professionalism, responsibility and enthusiasm.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Cat Vincent, Delta State\u00a0counseling lab director and MCA Delta Counseling Association president said, \u201cWe have incredible students here at Delta State. I was proud to see them step into leadership roles and experience the opportunity of being involved with a statewide professional organization. I was proud to see them shine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about graduate counseling programs at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/college-of-education\/counselor-education-and-psychology\/counselor-education-school-counseling\/\">https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/college-of-education\/counselor-education-and-psychology\/counselor-education-school-counseling\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of 12\u00a0Delta State counseling graduate students attended and volunteered at the Mississippi\u00a0Counseling Association Conference held in Biloxi in early November. Through the advocacy of Delta State\u00a0faculty, each student&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":68556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,246],"tags":[369,264,464],"class_list":["post-68553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-academics","category-students","tag-conference","tag-counseling","tag-students-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68553"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68559,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68553\/revisions\/68559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}