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We provide financial capability service providers, financial coaches, rental counselors, homeownership educators/counselors and case workers with key training, technical tools and published reference materials to help their clients achieve financial goals, transition to homeownership or cope with the threat of foreclosure and eviction.
Educational Support: Certifications for Counselors and Educators
Demonstrate your commitment and ability to meet the needs of individuals and families seeking safe, healthy communities and financial security. Certification from the NeighborWorks Center for Homeownership Education and Counseling (NCHEC) shows employers, peers, potential clients and customers that you have mastered a specific knowledge area in the fields of financial capability and housing education/counseling. We currently offer nine NCHEC certifications.Technical Support: NeighborWorks Compass and CounselorMax®
NeighborWorks is committed to developing tools that support impactful and efficient housing counseling and education. We have developed and continue to enhance CounselorMax, the premier tool for real-time tracking and accurate reporting of intake, education and counseling activities. Learn more about how CounselorMax improves efficiency while helping your organization demonstrate program impact to prospective funders.
Meanwhile, we are developing an industry-leading new system that will come to market in 2022--NeighborWorks Compass. This user-friendly system--designed by counselors for counselors--will assume much of the administrative burden for practitioners, and will provide functionality that supports sustainable, best-practice counseling work. Learn more about this game-changing system.
Meanwhile, we are developing an industry-leading new system that will come to market in 2022--NeighborWorks Compass. This user-friendly system--designed by counselors for counselors--will assume much of the administrative burden for practitioners, and will provide functionality that supports sustainable, best-practice counseling work. Learn more about this game-changing system.
Client-Focused Support: Consumer Guides for Housing and Financial Capability
Realizing the American Dream and Keeping the American Dream, our user-friendly training tools for pre-purchase and post-purchase homeownership education classes are available in English, Spanish, both Simplified and Traditional Chinese and Vietnamese. Check them out at the NeighborWorks Store. (Best browsers to use: Firefox or Chrome.)
We also offer Navigating the Road to Housing Recovery, a free digital resource available in both English and Spanish, for managing financial and homeownership matters in the face of disasters. The resource has state-by-state links and information to quickly connect residents and their counselors to critical and timely information.
Special Support for HECM Counselors
We also offer Navigating the Road to Housing Recovery, a free digital resource available in both English and Spanish, for managing financial and homeownership matters in the face of disasters. The resource has state-by-state links and information to quickly connect residents and their counselors to critical and timely information.
Special Support for HECM Counselors
NeighborWorks has everything you need to know about the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program. We provide active and prospective counselors essential information about:
- Housing & Urban Development (HUD) HECM counselor roster training requirements and HECM training offered by NeighborWorks
- HECM counselor resources
- Information for consumers
Standards for Homeownership Education and Counseling
Developed through a collaboration among housing industry partners, the National Industry Standards for Homeownershp Education and Counseling were developed to help practitioners and organizations serve families and communities with consistent service and professional excellence. LEARN MORE
