The Training and Certification Process
After we made our initial interest known it began the ball rolling. I will say that it can be pretty intense and time consuming between attending the training sessions as well as the required paperwork, biographies, interviews, and background checks. Youth Villages was very good and breaking things down for us, otherwise, it would be just overwhelming and I think most people would just quit before ever getting started if they knew the full extent of getting "certified". The paperwork alone would stop anyone. There were several training sessions we had to attend through DCS and then we had some additional sessions hosted by Youth Villages. Each session was approximately 3-4 hours. Because of COVID we had to do all this through web conferencing. Attendance is taken each time and if you miss a session you are required to make it up. Considering they only offer these sessions periodically that means it could push you timeline WAY back to getting cer...