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Group Facilitator START-UP Kit - PACKAGE DISCOUNT

The Group Facilitator Start-Up Kit contains the "must-have" aids every Group Facilitator needs. It's a total value of nearly $200! The kit includes:

1. Interactive Activity Toolkit with Interactive Activities Manual
2. Outcome-Focused Parenting Skills Assessments Manual & CD/Diskette
3. Parents Toolshop Puzzler
4. Quick Tour Script topic packet
5. 20" x 30" full-color presentation poster
6. Parents Toolshop T-shirt (specify size)
7. A handy Parents Toolshop black tote bag

These links are to the descriptions. Click on price to buy all these in a bundled discount. ($200 when purchased seperately). If you've already added these individual items to your cart and only want this package, remove them.

• Digital Download/Ship $159.95
  (items 1-4 download, ship the rest - save $50)
• Ship All Items $179.95 (items ship in 3 packages - save $25)

Group Facilitator ADD-ON Kit - PACKAGE DISCOUNT

Are you a new Group Facilitator? Are you looking for the most important resources GFs need? If you already have the Parent Educator Package (PEP) Discount Package, then what you need is the Group Facilitator Add-on Discount Package to complete your resource library

1. 20" x 30" full-color presentation poster
2. Quick Tour Script topic packet
3. Parents Toolshop T-shirt (specify size)
4. Handy Parents Toolshop Tote bag

These links are to the descriptions. Click on price to buy all these in a bundled discount. ($200 when purchased seperately). If you've already added these individual items to your cart and only want this package, remove them.

• Group Facilitator Add-On Kit: $89.95

20" x 30" Full-color Presentation Poster

Every Group Facilitator should have a presentation poster. The color-coded toolboxes and toolsets offer a quick reference for participants throughout presentations about the Universal Blueprint(r). And the large, clear print makes it easy for your participants to see from anywhere in the classroom.

Each poster is 20 x 30 inches with durable 10ml lamination.

• Laminated Poster: $59.95

Sponsor Information Packet

Put this comprehensive 44-page full-color document in a binder and you have an impressive presentation aid that will sell potential sponsors on the features and benefits of sponsoring your programs. Excerpt all or part of the report when applying for grants or funding. Walk potential sponsors through the key factors that they will consider when choosing a parent education program for their parents. Topics include:

1. Information about the Parent’s Toolshop^® model, content, programs, and instructor training; the book’s table of contents and special features
2. Training programs PTC instructors commonly offer
3. Samples of full-length and topic program flyers, formats, features, agendas, outlines, handouts, and practice exercises
4. Parents Toolshop’s outcome-focused skill assessment tool with sample forms and reports used in full-length and topic programs
5. A sponsor planning worksheet to help them identify needs, choose topics, issues, ages, formats, schedules and other logistical considerations.

• Digital Download: $4.95
• On CD: $9.95
• Full-Color Print: $19.95

Transparency Masters

Overhead transparencies can make any presentation more interesting and offer visual references to your teachings. Use one, several, or all the transparency slides in your topic presentations. Packet includes 30+ slides in a PowerPoint presentation on CD, so you can use a projector or print slides in full color or black and white. (Use your Group Facilitator Identification Badge to give permission to the photocopy technician.)

• CD File: $19.95 (copy/print onto film)
• CD + Black & White Prints: $29.95
• CD + Full-Color Prints $49.95

Parents Toolshop Flyers

A great print resource to help you spread the word about Parent's Toolshop^® programs. This colorful and informative flyer presents essential information about the Parents Toolshop book, live classes and home studies, free tools and resources and private coaching, all on a single 8 1/2" x 11" full-color page.

• High-Quality Digital Download: FREE
• Pack of 100: $36.00
• Pack of 500: $156.00

Business Cards

These full-color business cards can have preprinted PTC general contact information on the front or be personalized with your contact information (if you purchase a whole box).

• 100 Count (General PTC Information) $8.95
• 250 Count (Personalized Information) $19.99
• 500 Count (Personalized Information) $29.99
• 1000 Count (Personalized Information) $39.99
• 1500 Count (Personzlied Information) $44.99

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Parent’s Toolshop Binder Kit

Many Group Facilitators prefer having The Parent's Toolshop(r) book in a three-ring binder with chapter dividers, so they can insert their own outlines, interactive activity ideas, and notes. Instead of ripping apart your perfectly good PT book, you can purchase a damaged/defective book or, if you don't mind printing the pages yourself, get the computer files on CD! It comes with 15-tab color dividers. A binder is not included.

• Damaged/Defective Book: $14.95 (when in-stock, call to order)
• CD Of Files: $19.95

* By purchasing this CD with the original book master files, YOU ARE AGREEING TO use these copyrighted documents for your own personal use and agree not copy, share, show or distribute them to anyone else --- beyond the expanded copyright privileges all Group Facilitators have (detailed on the back of your ID badge) without the expressed written consent of Ambris Publishing.

Parenting Class Graduation Certificates

Show off your achievements with the new Parenting Class Graduation Certificates. While you received a master certificate in your Group Facilitator manual binder to photocopy, you may want certificates printed on parchment with crisp clear laser printing. Simply type/print/write the participants name, date and sign.

• 100 Graduation Certificates: $9.95
• 500 (1 ream) Graduation Certificates $39.95

Tool key chains (4")

Give your graduating parents an inexpensive parenting class graduation gift as a reminder of the valuable tools they have learned. Each set of one dozen key chains includes 5-12 types of tools.

• Tool Key Chains: $5.95/dz

Tool Jewelry

You won't find tool jewelry in any store, we know! We searched the world and only found tool charms for $100+. So PTC created earrings and a necklace from tool key chains. These real working wrenches weigh 3/4 oz. each and are 21/2" long. 50% off while supplies last!

• Earrings (set): $4.98 (from $9.95)
• Necklace: $2.98 from $5.95)

B.Y.O.B.B.B. (Bring Your Own Brown Bag Brunch) — a six-session program

Nothing gets people interested in the Parent's Toolshop(r) quite like stirring their taste buds. This six-session program uses a food theme that really catches the attention of potential sponsors and parents. Topics include:

1. "Blended or Tossed? Which Is Your Parenting Style?"
2. "Children's Menu: How to Really Listen to Your Child"
3. "Getting Cooperation Without Squeezing the Juice out of Your Kid!"
4. "Take the Bite out of Discipline!"
5. "The Recipe for Preventing and Resolving Problems"
6. "Parents' Choice: A Brainstorming Buffet"

The packet includes presentation outlines, handouts, and suggestions for interactive activities and visual aids.

• BYOBBB Presentation Packet: $29.95

Teens and Parents — Together: a six-session program

This program consists of four groups of six sessions that teaches teens and their parents, who are Parents Toolshop(r) graduates, the basic and advanced skills needed to improve parent/teen relationships. It's a wonderful follow-up program to the standard full-length class. Topic packet includes the class manual, handouts, activities and evaluation form. Topics include:

1. Understanding parent and teen perspectives
2. Building self-esteem within the family
3. Listening and problem-solving skills
4. Communication and "keep your cool" tools
5. How to hold family meetings
6. Practice/Coaching Individualized Problem-Solving

• TAPT Presentation Packet $39.95

Topic packets

Parents Toolshop(r) Group Facilitators are often asked to custom-design programs to meet a particular audience's needs or cater to a specific topic. Each packet includes a presentation outline, suggestions for interactive activities or visual aids, and reproducible handouts. As Group Facilitators submit new topic packets the list of available topics will expand. (If you are a Group Facilitator who has developed a topic program, share it with other Group Facilitators!)

*Due to the ease of reproducing the topic packets, they are non-refundable.*

CLICK HERE for the list of topic packets and order.

Group Facilitator Certification Training Videos

Would you like a refresher GF certification training? It's a great way to review teaching techniques from a particular chapter beforehand, or to learn new information on marketing and presentation skills. Just put on your slippers, prop up your feet, and grab the VCR remote! This six-tape set is an entire certification training - 12 hours in all! Normally, for video certification training participants, the cost of the video training is $600. For Group Facilitators only, who are using the tapes as a refresher, all prices are over 65 percent off! (Special order products: allow 4-6 weeks for delivery.)

• Set of 6 Videos: $199.95 (save an extra $40.00
• Vide Traning Workbook: $19.95

INDIVIDUAL GF CERTIFICATION VIDEOS

• #1: Introduction/Standards & Practices/Getting Started: $34.95
• #2: Using, Modeling & Teaching the Universal Blueprint: $34.95
  (Chapters 1-4)
• #3: Using, Modeling & Teaching the Universal Blueprint: $34.95
  Chapters 5-9)
• #4: Using, Modeling & Teaching the Universal Blueprint: $34.95
  (Chapters 10-15)
• #5: Marketing & Presenting Parent's Toolshop Programs: $34.95
  (Featuring Deanna Campbell Todd)
• #6: Using Parent's Toolshop Skill Assessments: $34.95

* By purchasing these videos, YOU ARE AGREEING TO use these copyrighted tapes for your own personal use and not copy, share, show or distribute them to anyone else without the expressed written consent of Ambris Publishing.