Founded in 1971, the program was designed to allow Indian Health Service (IHS) trainees to take as little or as much training as they needed to fill their agency's requirements and their own career ambitions. A full complement of courses leading to an associate degree in Mental Health Technology was developed for the Center and accredited through Central Arizona College. After encountering various problems, the program was altered to capitalize on the skills common to all effective direct service workers, but varied enough in content to satisfy field specialties. The Center's staff also became more responsive to field requests for brief programs serving immediate field needs and worked closer with specific agencies in the field. This report summarizes the program's beginning and re-orientation, the status of mental health technicians in fiscal year 1975, and the Human Services movement at large. Appended are two articles on mental health technician training and the American Indian, and the roles and future training needs of such technicians in the IHS; a curriculum plan for mental health technician training; a synopsis of the Desert Willow Training Center program; a proposal for the program's modification and expansion; the Human Services orientation and guidelines for certification; outlines for courses on Human Services and applied psychology with emphasis on counseling skills; a list of program activities for fiscal year 1975 and 1976; and a sample of an organizational development workshop outline and follow-up. (NQ)