IACP Regional Awards

IACP Regional Award Policy

The IACP Regional Award aims to recognise a person who meets some, or all, of the following criteria:

A fully paid up member who makes a notable contribution to the profession of Counselling and Psychotherapy, or to the Counselling and Psychotherapy Community in their Region.
- Service contributions can include development of creative educational or training programs (does not include personal business initiatives), or other novel activities in the advancement of the profession
A member who has made outstanding practice contributions to the profession locally (i.e. setting up local charitable agencies, etc.)
- Practice contributions can include breadth and / or depth of practice activities, innovations in service delivery locally and contributes to diversity, and / or other notable contributions (does not include personal business initiatives)
Building awareness of IACP and its operations within the Region
A member who has given significant voluntary time to IACP Committee work and / or general Counselling and Psychotherapy advocacy
A member who makes contributions to increasing awareness of standards of Counselling and Psychotherapy within the Region

Nominations can be put forward in all cases by either a current Regional Committee or by the Board of Directors.
No self-nominations will be accepted.
Multiple submissions for the same individual will not be reviewed unless substantial new information is included in the subsequent nomination.
If the nominated person is successful they will receive the IACP Regional Award to be kept in perpetuity.
Once successful the nominee is ineligible to be nominated for any further award for a period of three years.
No member of an IACP Regional committee will be eligible to receive the award while serving their term.
Only one nominee will be awarded from each region in any one year.
Each regional award recipient will receive a complimentary conference ticket to attend the award ceremony.