We have drafted activity logs to make it easier for you to record your supervised hours toward licensure. The state does not require these logs, nor will you be asked to provide them at any time during your licensure application process. We have created them for you to keep as a record of your clinical experience. There are two forms, one to record your clinical hours and the other to record your supervision hours. Both can be either signed or initialed by your site-supervisor, with copies given to your supervisor for their records.
Contact our office to request these forms as either Word or PDF documents.
NYMHCA: Helping you realize your professional dreams!
Have you wondered how you can help NYMHCA without spending one dime?........by registering with iGive.com and Goodsearch.com!
When you go to iGive.com, register, and choose NYMHCA as the organization you want to receive rewards, you can then shop at the more than 600 stores available. For every purchase you make, NYMHCA will receive a small percentage. (see link on the left side of this page)
Please use Goodsearch.com to search the internet. It's a Yahoo search engine. If you chose NYMHCA as the organization that will benefit, every time you do a search (whether or not you buy anything), NYMHCA receives a penny. That might not sound like a lot but it can quickly build if everyone uses it.
NYMHCA Dental and Vision Plans Are Open For Enrollment!
To read all about the new vision and dental plans exclusively for NYMHCA members, click here:
For a donation of $5 ($8 for non-members) you can receive a removable bumper sticker that announces that you are a licensed mental health counselor! By displaying this sticker on one or more of your cars you can help to educate the public about our profession. The stickers measure 3 3/4 X 7 1/2". Contact our office to order them.
CLANY - our NYMHCA PAC!
NYMHCA has established a PAC (politcal action committee) so we can make dontaions to legislators' re-election campaigns and in that way alert legislators to the legislative needs and issues of Mental Health Counselors. All donations to legislative action will go to fund the PAC and help to promote our profession. To make a donation to the PAC, click on "CLANY" on the left side of this page or contact the NYMHCA office.
Information Packet Available to Job Seekers
NYMHCA is making available a packet of material that can assist you in finding a job. Included will be our mental health counselor definition, a comparison between the education of social workers and mental health counselors, a copy of the regulations for the NYS Office of Mental Health that states that mental health counselors are considered qualified providers, and other information that you will find useful. To receive this packet in either a Word format or in PDF, contact our office.
Now Available from NYMHCA: a Superbill for those in private practice.
A "superbill" is a term for a billing format for the mental health clinician who wants to increase their acceptance by insurance companies and handle billing in a simplified manner. Using this strategy allows the client to submit the bill directly to the insurance company, and often results in the acceptance of LMHC's onto insurance panels or as out-of-network providers. Click on the "Insurance Companies" link on the left side of this page to find more info.
**NYS Education Department Professions Law Enforcement!
The SED has begun looking very closely at the places where grads want to work to accrue their 3,000 hours. As a result they are now refusing many limited permit applications for all professions. This is not new policy but rather an attempt to more closely follow what is written in the laws governing the professions.
Some limited permit applicants are receiving letters asking for a copy of the operating certificate/license for the agency, or evidence that the agency is a professional corporation. In the past we were told that grads could work in licensed professionals' private practices. Now they are saying that the licensed practitioner/employer MUST be a professional corporation in order for the applicant’s hours to count. For a copy of the letter being sent to some limited permit applicants, please contact our office.
Please note! Some applicants are contacting SED to ask if the agency where they have been offered a job is an acceptable site. If they are told that it is, the applicants assume that the job they were offered would be considered as appropriate for accruing their hours toward licensure. In fact, they are two different things. SED can tell you that a site is approved (has the appropriate credentials/licenses) but they will not comment on a job within that agency! Make sure that the job you take has enough client-contact hours where you are assessing and treating clients, in addition to any other duties within the job description. SED will only count the client contact hours, and the time for phone calls, case notes and supervision toward your 3,000 hours!
More Choices for NYMHCA Members
In our ongoing work to to help make your professional life more successful we have changed an important aspect of your NYMHCA membership:
Now when you renew your NYMHCA membership you will be able to join or renew your membership in your local NYMHCA chapter at the same time. At that time you can pay for both your NYMHCA annual membership and your chapter dues.
Convention Student Assistantship Applications Now Being Accepted
Students chosen for the 4 student assistantships for the April 16-18, 2010 NYMHCA convention will have their convention registration and hotel covered in exchange for their help at the convention.
Starting in January of 2010, the NYMHCA Quarterly will no longer be mailed to you as part of a cost-saving measure. Instead every 3 months you will receive an email notice that the newsletter will be available for reading and a link to this website will be provided that will take you directly to the newsletter. Since the newsletter will be in PDF form, you will need an Adobe Reader downloaded onto your computer. You only have to do that once and then you will be able to read our newsletter and any other PDF documents. The link to download the Adobe Reader will be posted on the page with the newsletter.
NYMHCA Needs.....an editor for the Quarterly
If you have some editing experience or want to learn how to use editing software while making a valuable contribution to NYMHCA, contact Bob Eschenauer. Bob will be on hand to help the new editor for the first few editions. Contact Bob at: eschenauer@optonline.net.
Helping NYMHCA and You!
We have something new and exciting we'd like to share with you! It’s the new New York Mental Health Counselors Association – NYMHCA toolbar – once added to IE or Firefox, each time you shop at more than 1,300 stores (from Amazon to Zazzle!) a percentage of your purchase will automatically be donated to New York Mental Health Counselors Association – NYMHCA – at no cost to you (and you may even save money as the toolbar provides hundreds of great coupons and deals!). The toolbar also has a search box and each time you search the Internet, about a penny is donated to New York Mental Health Counselors Association - NYMHCA. http://www.goodsearch.com/toolbar/new-york-mental-health-counselors-association-nymhca
And please pass this along to all of your friends. The two minutes it takes to add this toolbar to your browser can make a lifetime of difference!
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New NYS Office of Professions Website!
The Office of Professions has created an updated and much more user-friendly website. To see the new information and features go to: www.op.nysed.gov.
