OSCA/ ACOSO 2024-2025 Subscription Renewals are now OPEN!

Subscription renewals are now open to 2024-2025! The time to renew is NOW, so you may take advantage of the discounted price for the fall OSCA conference, November 3-4. Included with a one year subscription is the weekly OSCA News: stay up to date with all things guidance and career education, OSCA Today: the professional magazine of the association delivered online and hard copy, a free copy of ethical guidelines, many online resources on the the OSCA website, a fall conference celebrating 60 years of Guidance and Career Education in Ontario and a monthly webinar series. This year over 1,000 registrations participated, in 11 webinars.

Subscriptions may be renewed by going to the OSCA website- subscribe now section. Before you renew your subscription, please check with your Board of Education to see if they have purchased or plan to purchase bulk subscriptions with OSCA for 2024-2025. If so, you will need to obtain the payment by pass code to be used and applied at the time of renewing a subscription.
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Additional Qualifications (AQ) Courses: Guidance and Career Education

Fall session now taking registrations!     

Fall session: October 7 to December 6       

Delivery: Virtually 

Instructor: Current Guidance-Teacher Counsellor

Registration deadline: Monday, September 23

OSCA-ACOSO is pleased to announce that they will continue to offer Part 1, Part 2 and the Specialist in Guidance and Career Education Additional Qualifications courses this fall. Additional sessions will take place in the winter, spring and summer. Advantages of taking the course with OSCA are the instructor is a current guidance counsellor, a one year OSCA subscription is included ($55 value if currently not active) and a downloaded copy of Ethical Guidelines ($25) is included. As part of the OSCA subscription, you have the opportunity to attend the fall conference at a member rate, gain access to webinars throughout the year on topics related to guidance and career education, receive the weekly OSCA News to keep up to date with guidance/career topics, and receive the tri-annual OSCA Today, the professional magazine of the association.

Cost: $675 plus HST

To register: www.osca.ca --> Next AQ course
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OSCA/ACOSO needs YOU!    Board of Directors Nominations are now OPEN!

Do you enjoy being on the cutting edge of guidance and career education and wish to contribute to your professional association? Then joining the OSCA Board of Directors is for you! If you are new to the role or a seasoned veteran, everyone benefits from being a director. Past directors say that being on the OSCA board was the BEST professional learning they had while serving on the board for the guidance community. There are many places to be involved in where one may enjoy organizing the annual conference, collaborating to put together the OSCA Today magazine, or managing the student pathway awards and much more. For further information, please contact Lisa Butera-Fracassi, OSCA/ACOSO President fracassilisa267@ gmail.com.

The Board looks forward to seeing YOU!