The American Rehabilitation Counseling Association (ARCA) is an organization of rehabilitation counseling practitioners, educators, and students who are concerned with continually improving the profession of rehabilitation counseling in its service to persons with disabilities. In pursuit of this mission, ARCA:

1. Provides leadership in advancing the profession and science of rehabilitation counseling.
2. Promotes standards that represent the highest quality of professional rehabilitation counseling practice in a rapidly changing environment.
3. Provides research findings with direct application to the current and future practice of rehabilitation counseling.
4. Fosters dialogues and coordinates activities among rehabilitation counselors, educators, administrators, and other rehabilitation professionals within and among various specialty areas.
5. Engages in active collaborations and partnerships with other national professional organizations and with consumer groups.

ARCA supports eliminating environmental and attitudinal barriers so that more opportunities in education, employment, and leisure are available to people with disabilities. ARCA’s activities are designed to: increase public awareness of the profession of rehabilitation counseling, engage the association’s members in outreach and education, promote leadership skills through participation in ARCA’s organizational activities, and to advocate for appropriate licensure requirements. ARCA‘s goals are addressed through public education, collaboration, and legislative activities.