eaDear Collegue,

IACC, under an agreement with FAC (Federations of Associations for Certification) since April 2011 have reach the certification of competencies for Counselors Professionals.

Through a collaboration between IACC, FAC and Accredia (Italian Bodies for Accreditation) we finally started the process of construction of the Counselor Professionals Individual Certification of competencies (following the European regulations – ISO/IEC – EN/and national bodies 17024  for persons and meeting the UNI regulation for voluntary standardization systems).

The FAC certification have an important role for ensuring to  our customers in Europe official, solid and recognized by the regulatory systems/bodies to give to people referrals, securities, certainties, guarantees about our work. But it also give to the professionals protection and distinction from those Counselor that, using the lack of national law about Counseling Profession in Europe, are spreading superficial, unserious and sometimes dangerous methods of working.

Meeting the “EA MLA - Mutual Ricognition Agreements” between the EU member the certification is under the validation process for: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Republic of Croatia, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom and other international government (www.european-accreditation.org).

The next session for certification will be:

12^th December 2011

10^th February 2012

1^st june 2012

The agreement for the NCC (NBCC certification is valid only for Italy)