The UNLV Greenspun College of Urban Affairs will host a grand opening ceremony for the new Client Services Center on May 7 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

A state-of-the-art training facility for students in the departments of counseling and psychology, the Client Services Center is located on the second floor of the Paul McDermott Physical Education Complex on the UNLV campus.

At the center, graduate students in UNLV's counseling and psychology programs provide high quality, low-cost, client-focused counseling services to the public, according to center director Tom Sexton. The students conducting the counseling are supervised by faculty.

"This is one of the top facilities in the country," Sexton said. "It contains some of the most advanced technologies available, offering student counselors the opportunity to experience how a `real life' center operates."

At the grand opening, facility tours will be conducted, and UNLV President Carol C. Harter will speak.

The Client Services Center began as a four-room facility on the first floor of the William Carlson Education Building in 1975 and moved into a larger area in the same building two years later. In 1990, the center was remodeled, providing space for a client waiting room, observation areas, and a staff office.

In 1996 the center became part of the Greenspun College of Urban Affairs, and construction on the new facility began. With 16 interview rooms, two seminar rooms, a client waiting room, offices, and the most current audiovisual and computer technology, the Client Services Center is equal to any in the country, according to Sexton.

For more information on the Client Services Center, call Sexton at 895-3106.