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MISSION STATEMENT<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

APACS SEA facilitates vision and voice to professionals who provide mental health, wellbeing and learning support to children and young people in educational settings.

We do this by providing our membership with a unifying forum and advocacy, professional development, professional partnerships, quality scholarship and access to resources specific to the educational context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are an affiliate of the national\u00a0Australian Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools Association (APACS<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Our guiding principals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  • Vision: To guide and support our profession<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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    • Voice: Advocacy and promotion for the profession of psychological and counselling services in schools<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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      • Connection: To unify and link our profession: to each other, to our colleagues across the nation and to the international school psychology and counselling community and other likeminded organisations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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        • Scholarship: To provide opportunity, development and recognition of scholarship which is occurring in our profession<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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