IPCAP Meets at RGS

Last July 16, 2008, from 4-630PM, 15 representatives from eight (8) counseling-related organizations came together and met at the Religious of the Good Shepherd Convent in Cubao near St. Bridget School. This is the first time this year 2008, after a long hiatus that IPCAP or the Integrated Professional Counselors Association of the Philippines (IPCAP), Inc came and met.

Those who came included the following:
Dr. Julian Montano (current PACERS Chair and IPCAP Vice-Chair),
Fr. Bernardo Collera, SVD (IPCAP Secretary),
Cesar Cong, RGC (IPCAP Treasurer),
Dr. Perlie Polestico (PGCA Board Member and IPCAP Auditor),
Dr. Emy Villar (current PGCA President),
Malou Chavez (PGCA Board Member),
Dr. Susana Estanislao (current PACERS Vice-Chair),
Dr. Susie Eala, (current PACERS Corporate Secretary),
James Tan (current FPCAP President),
Myrna Serranilla (current FPCAP Secretary),
Dr. Joyce Dy, RGC (current CDAP Vice-President),
Dr. Carmelina Barrera, RGC (current PAPSHP President),
Avelina Mandin of the GCP,
and two RGS nuns, Sr. Florence Bautista and Leticia Allado.

As shown in its attendance sheet, representatives came from the following counseling-related organizations: PGCA, PACERS, PACC, CDAP, GCP, PAPSHP, FPCAP, and the RGS. Nine (9) of the fifteen (15) IPCAP Incorporators were present, and as per IPCAP Board Resolution #3, the meeting constituted a quorum. This meeting was open for licensed or Registered Guidance Counselors (RGC's), hence the presence of invited guests.

Now that IPCAP has been SEC-registered, meetings shall be held. If you have anything to be tackled in those meetings, do email me about it. I hope the IPCAP Board is open to the possibility of having our Minutes of the Meetings or excerpts from the Minutes blogged here as a function of information dissemination. In this way, members and future members will be updates about the organization. Although this is a personal blog, I have always envisioned this blog to be a source of information regarding the developments of Counseling in the Philippines. As attested by the emails I have received, including the licensure of some Filipino Guidance Counselors residing abroad, I am happy that this goal is being achieved. As St. Ignatius de Loyola says, Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam!