Press Release | April 20, 2024 | Subscribe  

ASC attends the NJSCA Convention at Kean University, Union, NJ April 19, 2024.

Kavneet Singh with Jim L. and Jason S.

American Sikh Council (ASC) representative Kavneet Singh attended and participated in the New Jersey School Counselors Association (NJSCA) Conference held at Kean University, Union, NJ on Friday April 19, 2024.

Over 400 school counselors, graduate students, specialists, experts, educators, professors attended this conference. There were several exhibitors and multiple of educational sessions covering, counseling, bullying, racism, bias and various related issues.

Attendees in the main auditorium

ASC representative Kavneet Singh networked with the convention attendees by having conversations and answering many interesting questions posed by the counselors and educators. Brochures covering the Sikh Turban, Sikhs and Scouts, History of Sikh Americans, Bullying of Sikh American Children, Sikhs in World Wars and the Sikh Genocide 1984 – 1998 were displayed and distributed.

The unique and historic book supported by the American Sikh Council ‘Bullying of Sikh American Children – Through the Eyes of a Sikh American High School Student’, www.bullyingasikhamericanchildren.org was displayed. This book was even attested by President Barack Obama on April 29, 2016and currently in over 41 school districts across the eastern seaboard. Other books such as Another Aspect of the Gadar Movement: The Struggle for American Citizenship and Property Ownership, were displayed as resource tools which can be used by professional school counselors to help the rampant bullying and victimization of Sikh American children.

Attendees at the keynote address in the auditorium

Many of the counselors stressed the need for more nuanced information about the Sikh experience and an increase in material being added into the state framework, in order to better serve the students.

Ms. Minotti stated, “I have attended the last three conferences, but your informational brochures really bring clarity and educate us, to do a better job in school environment!”

The networking and the outcome of ASC’s collective work was a resounding success, and in order to sustain this ongoing effort ASC requests all the gurdwaras but especially member gurdwaras to continue and step up their support of these very important educational initiatives to help our next generation thrive for a better future.

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The American Sikh Council is the umbrella organization representative of Sikhs in the United States. It is an elected body of Sikh Gurdwaras and institutions. Currently 76 Gurdwaras and other Sikh institutions across the nation are members of ASC. The major governing purpose of the organization is to represent the collective view of Sikhs in the United States. ASC works to promote Sikh interests at the national and international level focusing on issues of advocacy, education, and well-being of humankind.

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