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Please keep in mind that The Learning Community for Person Centered Practices does not recommend any one trainer over another.  Who you select is up to you.  We do recommend that you ask some questions so that you select the trainer who will best meet your needs. 

We suggest the following questions: 

• What training have they completed?  When?  By whom?  

• How often have they delivered the specific training over the past several years?  

• Who could you contact about their more recent efforts?

If you can obtain references ask those who received the training:  

• How useful/helpful did the participants find the training?  

• Did the trainer keep the participants interest throughout the training?  

• Was the trainer available for to answer questions and to provide assistance after the training? 

• How have they stayed current with the training?  

• When was the last time they received updated training materials? (Note that most training materials are updated every 1-2 years)

If you have questions about the trainings please feel free to contact any Board member via email by clicking on their name at the following link:

http://www.learningcommunity.us/board.html

TRAINERS:

Ashley Barber
2670 Durham Chapel Hill Blvd
Durham, NC 27705
Office: (919) 251-9001
Cell: (919) 943-6858 (preferred)
Email: ashleybarber@carolinaoutreach.com
Trainer: Person Centered Thinking Skills (1 page description)

Current focus areas: Mental health, Families, Children/Young people in transition

Terry Bedford  

2315 Innsbruck Ln

Pfafftown, NC 27040

Office: (336) 896-8188

Cell: (828) 231-0814

Web Page: www.umhs.net
Email: tbedford@umhs.net

Trainer: Person Centered Thinking Skills (a page description)

Current focus areas: Developmental disabilities/intellectual disabilities/learning disabilities, Mental Health

Janet Daniels Breeding
165 Wiregrass Road
Rockingham, NC 28379
Office: (704) 982-9600, Extension 121
Cell: (910) 894-3576
Web Page: www.ghainc.org
Email: jbreeding@carolina.rr.com
Trainer: Person Centered Thinking Skills/Essential Life Style Planning (1 page description)
Current focus areas: Developmental/intellectual/learning disabilities;

Mental Health; Substance Misuse/Abuse

Vanessa Denise Burden
4532 Mobius Road

Fayetteville, N.C. 28312
Office: (910) 424-2121
Cell: (910) 391-0638
Email: vburden@rhanet.org

Trainer: Person Centered Thinking Skills/Essential Lifestyle Planning (1 page description)

Current focus areas: Developmental disabilities/intellectual disabilities/learning disabilities; Families; Mental Health; Self-Advocates who have labels of developmental or intellectual disabilities; Substance Misuse/Abuse

Greta Byrd

Liberty Corner Enterprises

147 Coxe Ave

Asheville NC  28801

(828) 254-9917

gbyrd@libertycornerent.com

Kristin Cain
2140 Vale Court
Winterville, NC. 28590
Office: (252) 258-0244
Cell: (252) 258-0244

Email: kmc0711@gmail.com
Trainer: Person Centered Thinking Skills/Essential Life Style Planning (1 page description)
Current focus areas: Children/Young people in transition; Developmental disabilities/ intellectual disabilities/ learning disabilities; Families; Mental Health; Substance Misuse/Abuse

Val Carmine
11805 Stannary Place
Raleigh, NC 27613
Home: 919-518-0353
Cell: 919-274-0472
Web Page: www.synergyonenc.biz
Email: vcarmine@nc.rr.com
Mentor Trainer: Person Centered Thinking Skills/Essential Lifestyle Planning (1 page description)
Current focus areas: Aging, Developmental disabilities/intellectual disabilities/learning disabilities, Mental Health, Substance Misuse/Abuse

Christina Carter

DMH/DD/SAS

MSC 3007

Raleigh NC  27699-3007

919-715-1294

christina.carter@ncmail.net

Currently not available for training in North Carolina.  

Nora Chambers Carter
6800 St. Peter’s Lane
Matthews, NC 28105
Office: (704) 644-4362
Cell: (704) 363-2362
Web Page: www.thompsoncff.org
Email: ncarter@thompsoncff.org
Trainer Credentials: Person Centered Thinking Skills (1 page description)
Current focus areas: Families, Children/Young people in transition

Mary Beth Clemons

Liberty Corner Enterprises, Inc.

147 Coxe Ave

Asheville NC  28801

828-254-9917

jreggi@libertycornerent.com

Brenda Davis
101 Ramblewood Dr.
Mount Olive, North Carolina 28365
Office: 919-738-3597
Cell: 919-738-3597
Email: brendapdavis@yahoo.com
Trainer: Person Centered Thinking Skills/Essential Lifestyle Planning; Aging
Current focus areas: Developmental disabilities/ intellectual disabilities/ learning disabilities;

Families; Mental Health; Self- Advocates who have labels of developmental disabilities

or intellectual disabilities; Substance Misuse/Abuse

Emily A. Dimsdale
1214 Spring Branch Rd.
Wilmington, NC 28405
910-262-1007

Email: emily_dimsdale@yahoo.com
Trainer: Person Centered Thinking Skills/Essential Lifestyle Planning (1 page description)
Current focus areas: Mental Health; Substance Abuse; Developmental Disabilities

Chris Egan
Developmental Disabilities Training Institute
Jordan Institute for Families
School of Social Work
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB# 3370 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-370
Office: (919) 966-5463
Web Page: www.unc.edu/depts/ddti
Email: chris.egan@unc.edu
Trainer: Person Centered Thinking Skills/ Essential Lifestyle Planning (1 page description)
Current focus areas: Developmental disabilities/intellectual disabilities/learning disabilities, Families, Mental Health and Co-occurring Mental Health and I/DD

Melinda Frederick
2003 Godwin Ave. Lumberton, NC 28360
Office: (910) 739-8849
Cell: (910) 736-4715
Email: mfrederick@communityinnovations.com
Trainer: Person Centered Thinking Skills (1 page description)
Current Focus Areas: Mental Health; Children

Anne Gable, M.Ed.
The Guilford Center
201 North Eugene Street
Greensboro, NC 27401
Phone (336) 641-7473
Email: agable@guilfordcenter.com
Trainer: Person Centered Thinking Skills (1 page description)
Current Focus Areas: Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse

Elizabeth Grady
3509-105 Haworth Drive

Raleigh, NC 27609
Office: (919-896-7536)
Cell: (919609-0954)
email: egrady@nc.rr.com

Trainer: Person Centered Thinking Skills (1 page descripton)

Current focus areas: Aging; Children/Young people in transition; Developmental disabilities/

intellectual disabilities/learning disabilities; Families; Mental Health; Person Centered

Thinking Coaches; Self-Advocates who have labels of developmental or intellectual disabilities;
Substance Misuse/Abuse

Christine B. Howell
7 Hartley Place
Durham, NC 27707
Office: (919) 962-6419
Cell: (336) 263-0449
Web Page: ssw.unc.edu/cares/cares.htm
Email: chowell@email.unc.edu
Trainer: Person Centered Thinking (1 page description)
Current focus areas: Aging and Adults with Developmental Disabilities

Patti W. Huggins
908 McClellan Place
Greensboro, N.C. 27409
Office: (336) 852-1495 extension 3427
Cell: (336) 686-2303
Web Page: www.lifespanservices.org
Email: phuggins@lifespanservices.org
Trainer in person centered thinking skills (1 page description)
Current focus areas: Aging, Developmental disabilities/intellectual disabilities/learning disabilities

Manuel Jacobs

PO Box 821

Maxton, NC  28364

Office: (910) 737-4004

Cell: (910) 827-2661

Web Page: www.caringtouchhomehealthagency.com
Email: manuelbryanjacobs@yahoo.com

Trainer:  Person Centered Thinking Skills (1 page description)

Focus of area:  Children / Young people in transition; Families; Mental Health

Pamela Johnson (Pam)
2321 Kersey Court

Charlotte, NC 28213
Office: (704) 604-8835
Cell: (704) 604-8835
Email: pjpj64@aol.com
Trainer: Person Centered Thinking Skills/Essential Lifestyle Planning (1 page description)
Current Focus Areas: Developmental disabilities/intellectual disabilities/learning disabilities
Mental Health; Substance Misuse/Abuse

Leigh Ann Kingsbury

Gerontologist
InLeadS Consulting and Training
315 Bern St.
New Bern, NC 28562
office/cell: 910-297-3510
fax: 252-514-6529

Email: lakingsbury@suddenlink.net

Mentor Trainer (1 page description)                                            

Rashel Lauret

3080 Henderson Drive Jacksonville NC 28546

Office: (910) 938-9833

Cell: (910) 330-1408

Web Page: www.pridenc.com
Email: rlauret@pridenc.com

Trainer: Person Centered Thinking Skills (1 page description)

Current focus areas: Developmental disabilities/intellectual disabilities/learning disabilities;Families;Mental Health;Substance Misuse/Abuse

Rhonda Leak
Durham, NC
Office: (919) 596-2813
Cell: (919) 795-1849
email: rcleak9@aol.com
Trainer: Person Centered Thinking Skills (1 page description)
Current Focus Areas: Children/Young people in transition; Developmental disabilities/intellectual disabilities/learning disabilities; Families; Mental Health; Substance Misuse/Abuse

Mildred Williams McCain
P. O. Box 974
Ellerbe, NC 28338
Office: (704) 784-0753
Cell: (910) 461-8777
Continuum Care Service, Inc.

Website: http://www.continuumcareservices.com/default.html
Email: mmccain@continuumcare.net
Trainer: Person Centered Thinking Skills (1 page description)

Evelyn McGill

102 N. Yates St.

Gastonia, NC 28052

Office: (704) 865-4308

Cell: (704) 648-8300

Email: jsevelyn@aol.com

Trainer: Person Centered Thinking Skills (1 page description)

Current Focus Areas Families, Children/Young people in transition,

Mental Health Substance Misuse/Abuse

Rachel Mandelstamm
Strategic Compliance Associates
1183 University Drive, Suite 105-217
Burlington, NC 27215
Office: (989) 385-2129

Email: ram@sca-safety.com

Trainer: Person Centered Thinking Skills/Essential Lifestyle Planning (1 page description)

Talbatha Myatt
1985 Umstead Dr.
2501 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699
Office: (919) 855-4342
Cell: (919) 302-7061
Web Page: http://www.ncdhhs.gov/dma/
Email: Talbatha.Myatt@dhhs.nc.gov
Trainer: Person Centered Thinking Skills (see 1 page description)
Current focus areas: Aging

Carl Noyes

292 Whitfield Rd, Mt. Olive, NC 28365

Cell: (919-223-4571)

Web Page: www.retrospectconsultinggroup.com
Email: carln@retrospectconsultinggroup.com

Trainer: Person Centered Thinking Skills/ Essential Lifestyle Planning (1 page description)

Daniel S. Platt

377 Shadowline Drive   

North Carolina

Office: (828) 262-4645          

Cell: (828) 964-0213

Web Page: www.newriver.org
Email: plattd@newriver.org      

Trainer: Person Centered Thinking Skills/ Essential Lifestyle Planning (1 page description)

Current Focus Areas: Mental Health and Substance Abuse

Cyndi Reinhardt
295 Otis Road
Asheboro, NC 27205
Office: (704) 986-7251
Cell: (336) 460-1741
Web Page: www.monarchnc.org
Email: cyndi.reinhardt@monarchnc.org
Trainer: Person Centered Thinking Skills (1 page description)
Current focus areas: Mental Health; Substance Misuse/Abuse

Sandee Resnick

DMH/DD/SAS

MSC 3012

Raleigh NC  27699-3012

919-881-2446

sandee.resnick@ncmail.net

Currently not available for training in North Carolina.  

Tanya Marie Richmond
604 Leawood Drive
Greensboro, NC 27410
Office: (919) 962-6587
Cell: (336) 688-6021
Web Page: ssw.unc.edu/cares/cares.htm
Email: tanya_richmond@unc.edu
Trainer: Person Centered Thinking (1 page description)
Current focus areas: Aging and Adults with Developmental Disabilities

Lisa Ruggery
Quality Assurance Officer

O’Berry Neuro-Medical Treatment Center
400 Old Smithfield Road, Goldsboro, NC 27530
Phone: 919-581-4010
Fax: 919-581-4016
Email: lisa.ruggery@dhhs.nc.gov
Trainer: Person Centered Thinking Skills/Essential Lifestyle Planning (1 page description)
Current focus areas include: Aging; Developmental disabilities/intellectual disabilities/learning disabilities;
Families; Mental Health; Person Centered Thinking Coaches; Self-Advocates who have labels of developmental or intellectual disabilities; Substance Misuse/Abuse

Angela D. Seabrooks
2557 South Church Street
Burlington, NC 27215
Cell: (336) 399-8577
Web Page: www.Power-Zone.Info
Email: aseabrooks@Power-Zone.Info
Trainer: Person Centered Thinking Skills (see 1 page description)
Current focus areas: Aging, Children/Young people in transition, Developmental disabilities/intellectual disabilities/learning disabilities, Families, Mental Health, Person Centered Thinking Coaches, Self-Advocates who have labels of developmental or intellectual disabilities, Substance Misuse/Abuse

Reid Smithdeal
277 Tiny’s Mountain Drive
Deep Gap, North Carolina 28618
Cell: (828) 773-5038
Email: smithdealwr@appstate.edu
Trainer: Person Centered Thinking Skills (see 1 page description)
Current focus areas: Mental Health, Substance Misuse/Abuse

Martha Thompson

Liberty Corner Enterprises Inc

147 Coxe Ave

Asheville NC  28801

828-254-9917

mthompson@libertycornerent.com

Sharon M. Welling
6769-B Albemarle Rd. Charlotte, NC 28212
Office: (704) 568-0112 ext. 101
Cell: (704) 519-9270
Web Page: www.agency.com
Email: swelling@arcnc.org
Trainer: Person Centered Thinking Skills (1 page description)
Current focus areas include: Developmental disabilities/intellectual disabilities/learning disabilities; Mental Health; Self-Advocates who have labels of developmental or intellectual disabilities; Families; Children/Young people in transition

Anna Yon

PBH Care Coordination
DD Director
457 Lake Concord Road
Concord, NC 28025
(704) 721-2759
(704) 305-4997
Email: anna.yon@pbhsolutions.org
Mentor Trainer: Person Centered Thinking Skills/Essential Lifestyle Planning (1 page description)
Current focus areas include: Developmental disabilities/intellectual disabilities/learning disabilities;Mental Health; Substance Misuse/Abuse