Parent's Toolshop Instructor Certification Training ---
In-Person

(For Parent Educators Teaching The Parent's Toolshop)

Dates: usually Friday through Sunday

Time: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. each day

Location: regularly (at least twice a year) in the Dayton, Ohio area. Other locations when 4+ applicants in that area have completed the pre-certification requirements

Cost: $500.00 includes all Group Facilitator Training Manuals

* Pre-requisites: completing/submitting pre-certification requirements

Description: The Parent's Toolshop^® is a comprehensive, practical skill-building parenting curriculum that has been proven successful in more than ten years of field tests with over 3000 parents and family-service professionals.

The Parent's Toolshop^® teaches a unique problem-solving process called the Universal Blueprint^® that teaches parents how to prevent problems and find an individualized solution to those that arise. Only certified Parents Toolshop^® instructors are trained and authorized to teach this process to others.

The Universal Blueprint^® is so effective that parent educators can use the Universal Blueprint^® and model its skills to teach the process to parents. Parent's Toolshop^® instructors must do more than present parenting information; they are expected to conduct interactive activities, small group discussions, and practice exercises in their programs. In addition, they must market and evaluate their programs. These are all tasks not usually found through traditional social service education -- but Parents Toolshop^® instructor certification trains professionals to do all this.

To maintain the high quality and positive reputation of The Parent's Toolshop^®, all potential Group Facilitators must pass stringent screening and complete a three-step pre-certification process to be eligible to attend this specialized training.

Intended audience: Applicants interested in providing parent education and family life education programs based on The Parent's Toolshop^® curriculum who have completed the pre-certification process.

Objectives: Participants will learn . . .

• Establish and maintain professional ethics and standards in the parent education field.

• Get started, conduct needs assessments and make decisions about fees, discounts and more.

• Teach parents to think for themselves, using the unique "Universal Blueprint^®" and its practical skills to plan individualized effective responses to any parenting challenge.

• Teach Parent's Toolshop^® programs, from comprehensive "full-length" classes to one-shot topic programs -- and custom-design each program, to meet the participants' special or diverse needs.

• Adapt Parent's Toolshop tools to enhance working relationships and offer professional-training workshops.

• Be a dynamic, entertaining and informative speaker, effective group discussion leader and lead interactive activities that raise awareness while teaching skills.

• Market programs in the community, using proven business strategies that are "tweaked" to meet the needs of social service referral agencies, program sponsors and potential program participants.

• Evaluate participant skill improvement and custom-design outcome-focused evaluation tools, to track results, report successes and get funding!

• Get feedback from other training participants by observing, participating in, and leading "practice" presentations that include experiential exercises to use with parents.

The Instructor: Jody Johnston Pawel is a Licensed Social Worker, Certified Family Life Educator. She is a second-generation parent educator with over 25 years experience training parents and family professionals. Jody is the author of over 75 publications, including her award-winning book, The Parent's Toolshop^®. She is a nationally-recognized parenting expert with over 25 years of media experience. Her advice is regularly featured in newspapers, magazines and radio/TV talk shows worldwide. Jody has personally developed all Parents Toolshop^® resources and training programs and has certified dozens of Toolshop^® "Group Facilitator" instructors throughout the U.S.

CEUs: This program has been approved for Continuing Education Credits for the Certified Family Life Educator program through the National Council on Family Relations, 20 contact hours or 2 CEUs. The State of Ohio Counselor and Social Worker Board has approved this program for 18 hours. CEUs also available for all foster parents. Please indicate on the registration form if you want any of these CEU certificates.

Payment: due in full between August 24 and August 31, 2009. Please process all purchase orders in advance so payment is received by deadline.

Resources: Some instructor resources will be sent in advance, and a binder with other resources will be available at the training. Get a 10% discount on advance orders picked up at training. See the Ambris Publishing catalog and Group Facilitator order form for advance materials.

To Register: Online, click here. Pre-certification applicants can also contact Parents Toolshop Consulting at 937-748-4541

SCHEDULE:

Saturday, 9/5/09 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

9 a.m. - noon	Introductions Overview of training Variety of uses of TPT Getting Started Standards and Practices Certification process & probation, etc. Recertification Levels of certification Q & A
noon - 1 p.m.	lunch (on your own)
1 - 4 p.m.	Cultural Sensitivity and Issues in Parent Education Effective Speaking Using Interactive Activities in Parent Education Groups

Sunday, 9/6/09 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

9 a.m. - noon	Using and modeling The Parent's Toolshop to teach The Parent's Toolshop   Prevention Toolbox: Leadership/Teaching styles Using the Universal Blueprint® in group settings Motivating through encouragement ~ engaging resistant participants Preventing and responding to participant power struggles Teaching skills, building participants' independence and motivating responsibility Child Problem Toolbox Using F-A-X to empower parents
noon-1 p.m.	lunch (on your own)
1 - 4 p.m.	Parent (Leader) Problem Toolbox Expressing concerns assertively, maintaining the group's focus Responding to participant "misbehavior" Setting limits and following through Maintenance Toolbox Making consensus group decisions Maintaining your confidence Responding to criticism

Monday, 9/7/09 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

9 a.m. - 11 a.m.	Group Facilitator Reporting & Skill Assessments When and what to report to PTC Performing parenting skill assessments
11 a.m. - noon	Practice Presentation Participants present topic or activity from the Class Outline Receive evaluations on your presentation
noon - 1:30 p.m.	Lunch (provided); presentations continue
1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.	Marketing The Parents Toolshop Types of programs you can offer Where to find leads How to decide/set fees and discounts How to introduce programs to potential sponsors Share information and help solve problems instead of "selling"
3:30 p.m. - 4 p.m.	Leadership skill assessment and final paperwork completion

Total class hours = 18