Colorado Governor relaxes out of state license limits

Saw this post on AMHCA today.  I wonder if this is a sign of what's to come in order to provide for the expected increase of services.  Read here:

https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/sites/default/files/atoms/files/D%202020%20020%20Telehealth.pdf

Thank you Aaron!  I am going to see if I can get Jotform up and running better than other free platforms I've tried. Take care of you!

Here's our latest update on COVID-19 Resources and Counselors:

• FMHCA announces free “COVID-19 Resources for Mental Health Counselors” webinar.  The President of FMHCA will be co-presenting with the Executive Director and a Board Member of Florida’s Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling (a.k.a., the “491 Board”).  This will be an excellent opportunity to ask important questions about updates on laws and rules related to COVID-19 as well as resources for keeping your practice afloat during this crisis.  Click here for details.

• SMHCA, the Tampa Bay Area chapter of FMHCA, is providing a recording of a 1-hour meeting with Tampa Bay Area mental health professionals covering COVID-19 resources, precautions, transition to telehealth, etc.  View it here for free.

• Dr. Howard Chusid, an AMHCA member and Ethics Committee Member of FMHCA, recently posted information on AMHCA’s open forum about counselors and eligibility for financial relief associated with COVID-19.  Read it here. 

• AMHCA’s CEO sent an email on 3/23 providing helpful and supportive information and resources to AMHCA members. 

• PESI offers free anxiety identifying worksheets for client use during social distancing/quarantine: FREE Anxiety Identifying worksheets

• SimplePractice sent an email to FMHCA including resources for FMHCA members on how to “maintain continuity of care” during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Click here to read it.

• HPSO, a popular malpractice insurance carrier among counselors, sent an email clarifying informing policyholders of COVID-19-related practices and telehealth-related FAQs.  Click here to read that page.  

• An email from Troy University might answer a popular question: Can counseling students in CACREP-accredited programs get practicum/internship hours by providing telehealth?  Read it here. 

• NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals, offers page full of COVID-19 Resources: https://www.naadac.org/covid-19-resources?_zs=s8P6D1&_zl=mPhe5 

• The International Association of Counselling (IAC) sent an email containing several helpful resources for counselors related to COVID-19.

• NeuroFlow sent an email announcing its Coronavirus Risk Assessment and Anxiety Screener, a tool 

• Dwight Bain, LMHC, NCC, offered an interesting article from The Atlantic on how the COVID-19 can/will be eradicated: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-will-coronavirus-end/608719/?utm_source=pocket-newtab 

• ACA and Telehbehavioral Health CEs:  https://acaa.informz.net/informzdataservice/onlineversion/ind/bWFpbGluZ2luc3RhbmNlaWQ9Nzg1NDgzOSZzdWJzY3JpYmVyaWQ9NzcyMTQ3MjQx 

• One of my interns shared the following COVID-19 resources with me that she thought would be helpful:
• • Here are some resources that may be helpful to you as a human being and a provider:
  • **A free year of Headspace (meditation app) for providers due to the pandemic: -need to provide email address and NPI number (National Provider Identifier): https://www.headspace.com/health-covid-19
  • Tips on managing stress related to COVID from NCPTSD  
• • https://www.ptsd.va.gov/covid/COVID_managing_stress.asp  
  • https://www.ptsd.va.gov/covid/COVID_healthcare_workers.asp
• • Five Ways to View Coverage of the Coronavirus and a link to a podcast about coronavirus anxiety: https://www.apa.org/helpcenter/pandemics
  • FACE COVID– How to respond effectively to the Corona crisis by Dr Russ Harris, author of The Happiness Trap (see attached)
  • Bouts with Burnout: Managing Work-related Stress Across the Suicide Prevention Field: https://www.mirecc.va.gov/visn19/education/media/podcasts/12_31_2019.asp
  • Free online yoga: https://www.corepoweryogaondemand.com/keep-up-your-practice
  • Anxiety and COV19 (for adults working during the Crisis by Behavioral Health Integration Program and Trauma Informed Care Program https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awmQDitkN1M&feature=youtu.be  (due to bandwidth issues, they said not to use youtube on VA system)

MILLYAN CABRERA wrote:

Aaron, thank you for this helpful and informative presentation. Would you kindly post the Survey Monkey link here?

Milyan here are the two survey links (depending on which date attended):

3/26: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SMHCA_COVID 

3/27: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SMHCACOVID327

Aaron, thank you for this helpful and informative presentation. Would you kindly post the Survey Monkey link here?