Mission & Affiliation
Mission
Professional Counselors are confronted with events and discoveries that challenge our spiritual, ethical, and religious values. The mission of the Ohio Association for Spiritual, Ethical, & Religious Values in Counseling (OASERVIC) is to provide a forum for informed and thoughtful consideration of these issues and how they affect counselor education, the counseling profession and the client-counselor relationship.
OASERVIC seeks to create an association which empowers and enables the expression, exploration, development, and research involving spiritual, ethical, and religious value dimensions as they relate to the person, to society, and to the profession of counseling.
OASERVIC is one of the largest divisions of the Ohio Counseling Association.
Affiliation
OASERVIC is a state branch of the national Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Issues in Counseling (ASERVIC), which is a division of the American Counseling Association (ACA), and a division of the Ohio Counseling Association (OCA). ASERVIC was chartered in 1974. OASERVIC was charted in 1996 and focused on the "SPIRIT" in the "Mind - Body - Spirit" process of counseling.
We see you. We hear you. We stand with you.
The OASERVIC Board is here for anyone who wishes to reach out, start a conversation, or to be heard during this time.
Please feel free to contact us at OhioASERVIC@gmail.com
OASERVIC's Open and Affirming Statement (2020)
The Society for Sexual, Affectional, Intersex, and Gender Expansive Identities (SAIGE) recognizes the historical context of negative attitudes by some religious and spiritual institutions. Therefore, OASERVIC seeks to make all programs and operations provided by the organization a safe space that affirms and celebrates LGBTGEQIAP+ identities as healthy, valid, and fully human.
Leadership Opportunities
Opportunities for Growth and Development with OASERVIC
The Ohio Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counseling (OASERVIC) is excited to announce opportunities to serve in our division starting July 1, 2026. We are accepting nominations for 4 open positions:
1. Secretary
2. Government Relations Committee (GRC) Liaison
3. Membership Chair
- The Secretary shall be elected at large from among the voting members of OASERVIC. Upon election, the Secretary shall serve a two-year term. The secretary will be responsible for recording the minutes of OASERVIC Board meetings.
- Government Relations Committee (GRC) Liaison: The GRC liaison shall represent OASERVIC on the OCA Government Affairs Committee and provide updates back to OASERVIC members. The representative shall identify legislative concerns that impact counselors in Ohio and shall provide reports to the OASERVIC Board and the OCA Government Affairs Committee. Participation in the OCA Government Affairs Committee includes help with planning Legislative Advocacy Day.
- The Membership Chair shall oversee the Membership Services Committee, to solicit and promote membership in OASERVIC and to coordinate activities related to recruitment and retention of members.
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