This three-week training experience is equivalent to training for first time participants but is designed for clubhouses where the clubhouse director has already been to training. Tuition includes training and lodging for one member and one staff person for three weeks. Additionally, tuition includes training and lodging for the clubhouse director or an individual with administrative oversight responsibility for the last week of the three- week experience. Post training site visits are negotiable and are scheduled six to nine months after the training experience. The training base and the Clubhouse requesting a post site visit will share in the cost of the visit.

The training specifically targets new working groups that are seeking guidance with the inital steps in developing an ICCD Clubhouse. The training program emphasizes the development of local volunteer boards to help develop and sustain the growth of the Clubhouse. The training draws from the experience of many o four most successful Clubhouses over the past thirty years.

The training in an intensive two day classroom style session followed up by a year of ongoing mentoring and support for participating groups.