From the NBCC Foundation

The NBCC Foundation, an affiliate of the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC), recently selected Anthony Tyre of Aurora for the NBCC Minority Fellowship Program–Addictions Counselors (MFP-AC). As an NBCC MFP-AD fellow, Tyre will receive funding and training to support his education and facilitate his addictions counseling service to underserved minority transition-age youth (ages 16–25).

The NBCC MFP-AD is made possible by a grant awarded to NBCC by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in September of 2014. The Foundation is contracted by NBCC to administer the NBCC MFP-AC, as well as training and collaboration activities, such as webinars, that are open to all National Certified Counselors. The goal of the program is to reduce health disparities and improve behavioral health care outcomes for racially and ethnically diverse populations by increasing the available number of culturally competent behavioral health professionals.

The NBCC MFP will distribute up to $11,000 to Tyre and 29 other master’s-level addictions counseling students selected to receive the fellowship award. Tyre is a graduate of the American Military University, in Charles Town, West Virginia, and is currently a master’s student in the clinical mental health counseling program at North Carolina Central University, in Durham. Upon graduation, Tyre intends to work with transition-age minority youth by providing counseling within the substance abuse spectrum. We will provide services for individuals living within rural areas where counseling within the substance abuse spectrum. He will provide services for individuals living within rural areas where counseling services are often lacking. By earning this fellowship, Tyre will be able to attend conferences that will improve his counseling abilities in ways that will allow him to become an advocate for his target population and his colleagues.