Jody Johnston Pawel, is a Licensed Social Worker in the State of Ohio and Certified Family Life Educator through the National Council of Family Relations. As president of Parent's Toolshop Consulting, Ltd., she oversees an international network of parent educators. Through it's subsidiary company, Ambris Publishing, she publishes dozens of resources for parents, family-service professionals and certified Parents Toolshop instructors.

Jody is one of the few second-generation parenting instructors in the world. She started her "parent education" at age eight with her parents, who co-taught parenting classes for more than ten years (her mother taught for over 30 years), so effective parenting is her "first language."

For more than 25 years, Jody has been a leader in the parent education field. She has trained thousands of parents, parent educators, family-service professionals, foster parents, protective service case workers, child care professionals [and more] throughout North America, through her uniquely entertaining and highly informative workshops. She also serves on the Advisory Board of the National Effective Parenting Initiative.

Her most popular book, The Parent's Toolshop: The Universal Blueprint for Building a Healthy Family, received the 1999 and 2000 "Seal of Approval" from The National Parenting Center. In 2000, it was a finalist for the most prestigious Benjamin Franklin Award: the Bill Fisher Award for that year's "Best First Book by a New Author," sponsored by Publisher's Marketing Association. It has also received endorsements and testimonials from top parenting experts and authors, parents and family-professionals nationwide.

Since 1992, Jody has trained and certified dozens of Parent's Toolshop "Tour Guides" (parent educators) to provide family life education programs throughout the world, using The Parent's Toolshop book and curriculum as their guide. The Parent's Toolshop outcome-focused parent education curriculum has over 10 years of impressive outcome results for 2000+ parents and family-professionals. The Parents Toolshop PTLeader Standards & Practices peer-advisory committee screens and approves each applicant, whom Jody personally trains, to assure high-quality programming and that the highest ethical standards are maintained by its instructors. This thorough, advanced parent educator certification training is responsible for The Parent's Toolshop's reputation for having dynamic, interactive, top-quality programs -- a standard Jody establishes for others through her example.

In addition to more than 100 resources for parents, family-service professionals and parent-education professionals, Jody has also written the T.I.P.S.: Tools for Improving Parenting Skills parenting-advice column for Dayton Parent and the Springboro Star Press. Newspapers and magazines regularly seek her expert opinions for parent-advice articles. Her advice has been published in such noted publications as Parenting, Parents, Working Mother, Christian Parenting Today, Christian Science Monitor, Redbook, Women's Day, U.S. News & World Report, and the Chicago Tribune.

Jody also has over 25 years of media experience and is a frequent guest on radio/TV talk shows throughout North America. In the year 2000 alone, she gave over 100 interviews and appeared weekly as the call-in parenting advice expert for a L.A.-area radio talk show. Previously, she was the Assistant Producer and on-air child care expert for the Emmy Award-nominated Ident-a-Kid television series for the duration of the series. Jody currently serves as the online parenting expert for Cox Ohio Publishing’s mom-to-mom websites.

Within the field of parent education, Jody is one of the leading experts in effectively marketing parenting programs. She has extensive training and expertise in the most cutting-edge, integrity-based, client-focused marketing practices parent educators, therapists and coaches can use. Since April, 2004 she has served as a team leader and co-facilitator for the Book Yourself Solid, Product Factory and Traffic School programs, winning several leadership awards for her outstanding performance. She has also written articles on marketing parent education programs that have been published in the NCFR CFLE newsletter and she has presented workshops at parent educator conferences throughout the U.S. on effectively marketing parent education programs.

Additionally, Jody is the founder of The Family Network, a local parent-to-parent organization that is still going strong more than 20 years later. She has helped dozens of parents throughout North America start similar groups with her first book, Creating and Facilitating Mother Discussion Groups.

On the home-front, Jody has been happily married since 1983 and is the mother of two young adults -- who have already learned effective parenting as their first language.

 

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