P.R. Laws tit. 20, § 2674
The Puerto Rico Rehabilitation Counselors Association shall have the following purposes and objectives:
(a) To protect the interests of its members and promote their professional development through training and continuing education courses in accordance with their needs and the requirements established by the Board. The continuing education program to be developed by the Association shall cover, as a minimum the following ten (10) subject matters established by the Council on Rehabilitation Education (CORE): (1) professional identity; (2) social and cultural diversity; (3) human development and growth; (4) development of careers and employment; (5) counseling and consulting; (6) groups work (7) endorsements; (8) programs oversight and assessment; (9) medical functional and environmental aspects of disabilities, and (10) rehabilitation resources and services.
(b) To promote and oversee compliance with the ethical values and principles that govern the profession and contribute to the formulation and interpretation of the standards of professional ethics.
(c) To promote the development of rehabilitation counseling as a discipline of study and the funding and development of research, as well as the holding of activities related to said discipline, with its professional practice and social mission of human service.
(d) To develop and implement community service programs.
(e) To collaborate with public entities in the design and implementation of a public policy to impact the populations in terms of their full integration into society.
(f) To collaborate with institutions, entities and bodies of the Island that render support services to the rehabilitation counseling process and contribute, whenever possible, to its development and improvement.
(g) To establish relationships with professional groups and associations concerned with the rehabilitation of citizens with disabilities to promote shared activities to the benefit of rehabilitation counseling as a discipline of study and as a profession.
(h) To contribute toward the establishment and development of work relationships that are characterized by a high sense of sensibility and commitment to the population served.
(i) To guarantee and protect the principle of confidentiality of the relationships between professional rehabilitation counselors and those who use their professional services.
(j) To promote excellence in the practice of rehabilitation counseling to guarantee faithful compliance of such professional services and to ensure that the population that receives them is fully protected.
History —Aug. 16, 2006, No. 160, § 5.