Enacting Social Justice Through the Advocacy Competencies

This article was developed from a presentation given at the 2011 American Counseling Association annual conference. The article describes a counseling program implemented at a university-operated community center that used the ACA Advocacy Competencies as a framework to develop counseling and related programs along a micro to macro continuum of service delivery. The authors represent former doctoral counselor education students who designed a model to better serve their majority Hispanic youth, court-referred clientele.