Four Corners Training Consortium

05/07/2022

We'll have the undated Newsletter out early next week with the training schedule plus some other training opportunities. If you didn't get the newsletter a week or so ago and want to be placed on the newsletter list or have other questions you can email: info@nmceu.org - be aware that the website is not updated and there will be no pre-registration or pre-payment. You just show up and pay at the door with cash, check (to FCTC) or credit card

03/23/2022

We have someone who is taking over the newsletter and web site so the FCTC will be getting back on track. We need volunteers both to help with live face to face trainings and with the board. We'll be getting the word out on what trainings we'll be able to do but we definitely will do Ethics and Clinical Supervision and with additional volunteers be able to get back on track.

08/31/2020

Everything at the consortium is on hold between web/newsletter and COVID issues. We just finished a free Clinical Supervsion and Ethics training on Zoom that I did on my own and will do another 6 hour training that will be September 13, 2020 from 2 to 5 pm. "Addictive Process through the Organic Intelligence Lens" is another free offering I will do. Organic Intelligence is a Positive Reinforcement to shape biology and behavior paradigm. If you're interested e mail me at charles@charlesstacey.com. I'll send you a list of video's to watch prior to our Sunday 9/13 Zoom meeting and we'll have a conversation about applying the principals of OI to working with Addictive Process and Trauma. In the mean time the board will be working on developing a comprehensive training program for 2021 that will probably be still using online till the COVID-19 situation allows safe in person meetings

07/29/2020

I hope this finds you all well and safe. I have made a command decision and will do two free trainings on my own August 28 and 29. I’ll use Zoom and do Clinical Supervision 3 CEUs on August 28 from 9 am to 12 pm. August 29 I will do Ethics from 9 to 3:30 (9 – 12 and 12:30 to 3:30). These were the days the FCTC Conference was to happen but had to be canceled due to COVID-19. The Consortium has faced the perfect storm with the web site crashing and the newsletter software being discontinued just as our web company person has been sick and unable to get us back on the air. We have all had our hands full with business and life while staying home or adding to work loads if you were one’s who kept seeing people face to face. I couldn’t figure out how to deal with payment and registration so at 4 this morning I realized I just do it cause I could and make it free so there was no technical fuss with money and registration.

Here’s the process: send me an email saying you are coming and I’ll send you the Zoom Link and a password. If you’re not used to Zoom by now I encourage you to get a good headset or pair of ear buds and a comfortable place that is well lit (and not with a bright window or area behind you). This will be a meeting format not webinar so I am counting on our usual conversations as with our live trainings. Send me cases you would like to have us look at from an ethics standpoint and examples you want to consider for the Clinical Supervision session on Friday. We will be taking 10 minute breaks on the hour and a 30 minute break for lunch for ethics. We will be using Zoom breakout rooms from time to time so we can have small group interaction for Ethics. I will need you to keep your camera’s on throughout the training. I’ll e mail you an evaluation that can be filled in on your computer and you can email it back and I’ll send you your certificate. I’ll send that eval form as an attachment with the meeting number and password.

The Counseling and Therapy Practice Board is allowing all Therapy Sessions, CEU’s and supervision to be done on line. You still have to renew by September 30 and it’s unclear whether or not the board will do their usual audit of certificates for some folks.

Please pass the word around and invite anyone to the trainings that might need them. You can sign up by replying to this e mail: charles@charlesstacey.com or at info@nmceu.org

Be sure and let me know which of the trainings you want to attend!

Hope to see you in a few weeks

Charlie

Charles Stacey, MA, LMFT
(832) 630-3022
charles@charlesstacey.com

07/29/2020

I hope this finds you all well and safe. I have made a command decision and will do two free trainings on my own August 28 and 29. I’ll use Zoom and do Clinical Supervision 3 CEUs on August 28 from 9 am to 12 pm. August 29 I will do Ethics from 9 to 3:30 (9 – 12 and 12:30 to 3:30). These were the days the FCTC Conference was to happen but had to be canceled due to COVID-19. The Consortium has faced the perfect storm with the web site crashing and the newsletter software being discontinued just as our web company person has been sick and unable to get us back on the air. We have all had our hands full with business and life while staying home or adding to work loads if you were one’s who kept seeing people face to face. I couldn’t figure out how to deal with payment and registration so at 4 this morning I realized I just do it cause I could and make it free so there was no technical fuss with money and registration.

Here’s the process: send me an email saying you are coming and I’ll send you the Zoom Link and a password. If you’re not used to Zoom by now I encourage you to get a good headset or pair of ear buds and a comfortable place that is well lit (and not with a bright window or area behind you). This will be a meeting format not webinar so I am counting on our usual conversations as with our live trainings. Send me cases you would like to have us look at from an ethics standpoint and examples you want to consider for the Clinical Supervision session on Friday. We will be taking 10 minute breaks on the hour and a 30 minute break for lunch for ethics. We will be using Zoom breakout rooms from time to time so we can have small group interaction for Ethics. I will need you to keep your camera’s on throughout the training. I’ll e mail you an evaluation that can be filled in on your computer and you can email it back and I’ll send you your certificate. I’ll send that eval form as an attachment with the meeting number and password.

The Counseling and Therapy Practice Board is allowing all Therapy Sessions, CEU’s and supervision to be done on line. You still have to renew by September 30 and it’s unclear whether or not the board will do their usual audit of certificates for some folks.

Please pass the word around and invite anyone to the trainings that might need them. You can sign up by replying to this e mail: charles@charlesstacey.com or at info@nmceu.org

Hope to see you in a few weeks

Charlie

Charles Stacey, MA, LMFT
(832) 630-3022
charles@charlesstacey.com

05/27/2020

It is with great regret we are canceling June, July and the August Conference. There is still a great deal we don't know but it is clear to the board that it will not be in the best interest of your and our own safety to be gathering in groups large enough to sustain this years Conference. The board has begun discussions on plans for the future and hope we can return in some form to continue our mission of providing affordable CEU trainings for the mental health professionals of the Four Corners. We continue to work on getting the web site and e newsletter back up in operation and will do our best to keep you informed of plans for the future

05/19/2020

An important free training opportunity

Join us today (5/19) at Noon PDT for the first live Q&A session for the PTSD PROs series for helping professionals. Registration link for this series is below.

Then tomorrow (5/20) on Wednesday at Noon PDT is the second clinically-oriented webinar of the PTSD Pros series.

This free series of webinars and Q&A sessions lays the groundwork for personal and professional trauma information in the COVID-19 era.

After registering, you will also receive links for these free resources:
-upcoming Q&A sessions
-the first week of the End of Trauma™ Course
-replays of the prior OI PTSD overview
-replays of this professional series
-access to a LOT of OI online resources.

Register for PTSD PROs at: https://bit.ly/PTSDebriefing

05/09/2020

good stuff from some smart folks - read em and sleep

As people face prolonged periods of confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic, stress levels may disrupt sleep patterns and worsen overall mental health.

04/02/2020

Due to the continuing threat of the COVID-19 virus situation the trainings for April and May have bee cancelled. We will work on reschedule as soon as this situation is resolved. We are still working on getting the nmceu.org website functional.

Home of the Four Corners Consortium is a place for training mental health professionals in the four corners region

03/15/2020

From a Farmington Medical Laboratory Manager regarding testing for the COVID 19 virus: "I have been asked several times why lines are long for testing. Currently confirmation of a positive test for Covid is done at CDC. The state health dept perform a screen so that is where you hear/read presumptive positive. The state has to send to CDC for confirmation. Physician office and hospitals have to initially test for strep/flu/RSV which are common respiratory illnesses. These tests range from 5-10 min to perform. If they are negative, then a call has to be placed with the state to get an okay to send a specimen for Covid, there is a criteria that one has to meet to get the okay. This can take several hours due to high volume of calls. Specimen has to be collected from back of throat and a nasopharyngeal that are put in two viral collection kits. Currently there is limited number of kits that hospitals/offices can get. During collection, staff collecting have to wear a N95 mask which is also limited. So be patient, expect wait time, and if you don't need to be out, stay home. Remember facilities are having to deal with daily changes. Currently there is no rapid test like we have for streps, flu. Oh and it would be preferred if you don't enter a building. Most facilities do not have well ventilated/zero pressure rooms so hence the outside drive through testing."

03/13/2020

The March 28 Training has been cancelled. We are following the State of New Mexico and CDC recommendations and a concern for the health and wellfare of all of you who support the Four Corners Training Consortium. Or web site is currently not able to be updated so our primary way of connecting with you all is this page and our e newsletter. We will keep you updated as we work on rescheduling. If you have questions you can e mail us: info@nmceu.org