The Village Network launches National Counseling and Training Center in Wooster

The Village Network has recently opened its National Counseling and Training Center in Wooster on the lower level of its corporate offices. The Village Network’s NCTC provides mental health training and consulting to individuals and organizations across the country.

The primary goal of the NCTC is to partner with individuals and organizations to identify strategies for designing the most effective approaches to successfully work with their most challenging clients. Embedded primarily in the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics, the NCTC offers NMT Brain Map assessments, training, coaching, consultation and strategic planning.

The idea of the National Counseling and Training Center started when The Village Network began to increasingly get requests for training from individuals and agencies outside The Village Network. It also began to get requests for training from local children’s services and juvenile courts to train in trauma-informed care approaches.

The deciding point came when it gained a third level of certification in NMT and Collaborative Problem Solving and was granted the ability to train the public in these approaches. The most exciting aspect of the new NCTC is the technology that will enable it to provide training to clinicians from all over the country. An open house was held Sept. 10.

The Village Network is a multi-discipline behavioral health nonprofit organization helping youth and families. To learn more about the upcoming NCTC trainings or to book a room, visit www.thevillagenetwork.org/trainings.