Research and Grants

Chi Sigma Iota Chapter Grants are intended to support activities in chapters that promote and recognize excellence in the areas of leadership, professional identity, advocacy, and scholarship. The grants provide 50-100 dollars as seed money for chapter projects. This may include, but is not limited to, workshops and professional development activities, advocacy, leadership training, recognition of excellence, or promotion of scholarship. Chapters are challenged to identify projects or activities that help CSI members to enhance their professional identity and their own sense of commitment to the counseling profession.

The mission of Chi Sigma Iota is to promote scholarship, research, professionalism, leadership, and excellence in counseling; to encourage the pursuit of personal excellence by members; and to recognize high attainment in the pursuit of academic and clinical excellence in the profession of counseling. To fulfill that mission, the first two fundamental purposes of the CSI Strategic Plan are stated as: (1) To promote and recognize excellence in counseling scholarship, research, leadership, and practice; and (2) To support and enhance the counseling profession. These purposes are the foundation for the CSI Excellence in Counseling Research Grants Program.

This Program is intended to support and enhance the counseling profession through targeted support of research by CSI members.

A limited number of awards are available in 2009 with amounts ranging from $250 to $750 with a total of grants not to exceed $2000 per category, 1) Developmental Counseling, 2) Wellness, and 3) Advocacy. Applicants must be current/active CSI student or professional members. The applicant’s CSI Chapter Faculty Advisor’s endorsement on behalf of an active Chapter is required. Professional members at large without the benefit of an active Chapter may request consideration as an exception to this requirement. 

Greater weight will be given to collaborative proposals that involve practitioners as well as university students and/or faculty teams, e.g., school counseling, rehabilitation counseling, addictions, etc.

Applicants will be notified of determinations made by the CSI Excellence in Counseling Research Grants Review Committee no later than July 17, 2009.

Grant awardees will be recognized at the CSI Awards Ceremony during the ACA Convention in 2010 and may be asked to showcase their research proposal in poster format. Recipients are also encouraged to submit their results for publication in a refereed journal. Graduate students enrolled in counseling programs are particularly encouraged to apply.

A list of Research/Grant Award Recipient Papers can be viewed by clicking here.