American College of Counselors

Dr. Raymond B. Croskey was elected president of the American College of Counselors, Inc. at the 2007 American Psychotherapy Association Conference in Kansas City Missouri on October 5.  The American College of Counselors, Inc. (ACC) is a national and international group of professionals in counseling and human services committed to increasing their knowledge and awareness of human development and its manifestations of complex behavior and emotional problems.

Ray has served on the Board of Governors of the American College of Counselors Inc since the American Board of Professional Counselors of the American Psychotherapy Association.  He played a major role in establishing four new mental health professional licensures with the New York State Department of Education in 2004-2005.  He successfully chaired two Northeast Regional ACC annual conferences at Emmanuel AME Church in Harlem, NY in 2006 (“Mental Health Post 9-11”) and at Medgar Evers College, City University of New York in 2007 (Collegial Group)

Croskey received his BA degree with a major in premedical science at New York University and was a Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Scholar.  While completing his undergraduate work at NYU, Ray founded and served as chair person of NYU Sickle Cell Anemia Association in 1970.  This was the first college-student based organization established in New York to focus attention on this dreaded illness.  He would later serve as a national student spokesperson for the National Sickle Cell Disease Research Foundation Inc.  In 1984, he received the prestigious Lemuel W. Diggs MD Meritorious Service Award from the National Sickle Cell Disease Research Foundation for tireless and unselfish efforts to raise awareness nationally on Sickle Cell Disease.  Dr. Croskey completed a clerkship in the United Nations Secretariat under supervision of Dr. Peter Gateaby and authored two papers on tropical medicine in 1979 and 1981.  Croskey received advanced training in ethics under a Bernard L. Schlesinger Grant at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Philosophy at New York University School of Medicine in 1982.

Raymond was employed with New York City Department of Education from 1988 to 2006, most recently as a Regional Health Director.  He received his Masters in Public Health from Hunter College School of Health Sciences and his Doctor of Podiatric medicine at the New York College of Podiatric Medicine.  He is currently an adjunct assistant professor at Medgar Evers College, City University of New York. He has served in the Freshman Year Program since 1998.

Dr. Croskey also presently serves on the Board of Friends of Public Broadcasting Corporation, “PBS” Channel 13.  He is a member of the New York FBI Citizen Academy Alumni Association and International Society of Police Surgeons.  In addition, Ray currently serves as an ombudsman with the National Mergo Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, Inc.  For more information, contact Anna at anna@acfei.com

Our 2004-05 symposium, "Security Begins at Home: Aspects of Sexual Violence and Abuse," was held in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Our 2003 symposium, "New Horizons in Addictions Treatment and Prevention," was held in St. Louis, Missouri.

Our 2001-02 symposium, "Universality of Grief: Individuality of Treatment," was held in Chicago, Illinois, in association with the Association for Death Education and Counseling.

Our 1999-2000 symposium, "Counseling with Social Awareness: Applications of Adlerian Psychology to Practice," was held in River Forest, Illinois, in cooperation with the Alfred Adler School of Professional Psychology.

Our 1998 symposium, "Resolving Conflict through Archetypal Awareness," was held in New Orleans, Louisiana, co-sponsored by Tulane University and the Jungian Society of Baton Rouge.