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Become a Certified Foster-Adoptive Parents Toolshop® Trainer

Are you an experienced foster-adoptive parent or child welfare professional with training experience?
Would you like to teach Foster-Adoptive Parents Toolshop® courses to the caregivers in your area? 
Then become one of our certified trainers! 

3 Trainer Certification Steps

To train caregivers of children with a trauma history requires advanced knowledge and skills. As a trainer, you also need to know how to convey these complex concepts in engaging edu-taining ways. So the trainer certification process involves the following steps:
  1. Graduate from a comprehensive Foster-Adoptive Parents Toolshop® training series (live or online) that teaches the entire Universal Blueprint® for [Foster-Adoptive] Parenting Success, completing any related assignments.
  2. STEP 2: Apply for Certification. When you are approved, you can attend our Leader Certification trainings, including:
    1. Parents Toolshop® Advisor Training to USE the Universal Blueprint® to coach and ...
    2. Foster-Adoptive Parents Toolshop Trainer Certification, to use and model the UB® it while you TEACH it and trauma-informed tools to your workshop attendees. 
  3.  STEP 3: After Certification, you will complete PROBATIONARY PERFORMANCE requirements, while reviewing some key FAPToolshop® resources, you can share, recommend or teach to the foster-adoptive parents you train.

    Once you've met these requirements, you receive your final certification and stay active by meeting minimum performance requirements that help keep your skills sharp. 
This free course explains these steps and provides some previews of the application and pre-certification training package, which has step-by-step checklists for each step. 

Once Certified, You have LIFETIME ACCESS to ALL FAPT Trainer Resources

As long as you maintain your active leader certification license, you will retain access to the most updated trainer resources like:
  • Presentation materials to teach the TWO standardized comprehensive trauma-informed post-licensure curriculum that teaches the entire Universal Blueprint® and related trauma-informed content: 
    • The Basic FAPT TIPS course, which you will attend prior to certification.
    • The Advanced FAPT TIPS course, which you can attend after certification, to see the presentation skills modeled for you.
  • Every training or webinar we have created and own the copyright to, you can offer the foster-adoptive and kinship caregivers you train. We give you access to the most current outline, powerpoint slides, and detailed presentation notes for each workshop, and pre-post skill assessments to evaluate the effectiveness of your comprehensive UB® series. 
  • Leverage all the virtual training resources on this site to recommend to your trainees. Sign up as an affiliate and you can earn 30% net profit from all virtual training resources for foster-adoptive parents on this e-learning platform. 

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FAPT TIPS4 Leaders Pre-Certification PREVIEW


Below, you can see some parts of this free preview course. If you are serious about considering trainer certification, you can sign the non-disclosure agreement below (see blue "preview" button) to access every document in the free preview course.

All forms and checklists in this free preview are also included in the FAPT TIPS4Leaders discounted training bundled package, with live links and discount codes (which you don't get in this free preview).

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Contents

Summary of FAPToolshop® Leader Certification Steps. Use Links to PREVIEW Pre-requisite Course(s)


STEP 1. COMPLETE the Foster-Adoptive Parents Toolshop® (FAPT) Leader Pre-Certification training process, meeting all submission/scoring requirements.
  • You must obviously attend and graduate from at least one of the courses you will be teaching! How else would you know you want to teach it? So the "pre-certification" courses familiarize you with The Universal Blueprint® system, our innovative proprietary parenting plan that only Certified Toolshop® Group Facilitators can teach to others. 
  • All Leader Applicants must graduate from a comprehensive “core” UB® training program. The minimum requirement for Foster-Adoptive Parents Toolshop® Leaders is the 18-hour "FAPT Basic T.I.P.S. Series," but you can also complete the 40-hour Advanced series. You may also attend one of those series as a live class taught by any Certified FAPT GF or the online course. In order to qualify to apply for trainer certification, you must:
    • Do a pre-class skill assessment before you start any UB® course. This assessment questionnaire is included in the FAPT TIPS4Leaders Basic TIPS Course.
    • You can add-on personalized support during your Basic or Advanced TIPS course, either group support coaching or private coaching. 
    • After completing all pre-certification training requirements, you will do a post-class skill assessment. If you score a 9+ out of 11 points you may take the next step.

STEP 2: Apply for Certification. When you are approved, you can attend the FAPT Leader Certification training, which includes:
    1. Parents Toolshop® Advisor Training to USE the Universal Blueprint® to coach foster-adoptive parents and kinship caregivers ... and ...
    2. Foster-Adoptive Parents Toolshop Trainer Certification, to use and model the UB® it while you TEACH it and the trauma-informed tools that are part of the dozens of workshop presentations you will get access to.
 
STEP 3: After Certification, you will complete PROBATIONARY PERFORMANCE requirements, while reviewing some key FAPToolshop® resources, you can share, recommend or teach to the foster-adoptive parents you train.

Once you've met these requirements, you receive your final certification and stay active by meeting minimum performance requirements that help keep your skills sharp. If your license lapses by becoming inactive, you will lose access to all the trainer resources and certification courses, but none of the courses or resources available to the non-trainer public.
Sign THIS Non-Disclosure Agreement BEFORE accessing ANY proprietary course content
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StairStep PRICING: ALL levels ALL curriculum (updated 2025).pdf
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FAPT TIPS pre-certification Training Agreement
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DURING TIPS: use these TIPS4Leaders checklists as you complete the Advanced TIPS course


You will use these Excel spreadsheets to preview the steps and as a checklist to track the completion of your tasks, from your pre-requisite course to your Certification programs (Advisor/Coach and then Group Facilitator).

You will also fill out a "FAPTIPS4Leaders" Word document, which is a checklist specifically designed to verify the completion of the pre-requisite course tasks, such as:
  • Action Guide activities
  • Post-test study guides

After you graduate, you can complete the remaining FAPTIPS4Leaders tasks (like reviewing the key FAPToolshop resources to share/recommend) while you are completing the Leader Certification programs (Advisor and Group Facilitator).
CHECKLIST for FAPT Advanced TIPS course attendees who are FAPT Leader Candidates
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FORM TO SUBMIT to verify you've completed the Advanced FAPT TIPS course AND additional steps AFTER TIPS but before certification
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TOP10-PROBLEM-PASRRresponseWORKSHEETS.docx
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After completing TIPS4Leaders: Apply for Leader Certification

  1. Sign the Leader non-disclosure agreement (a bit more to agree to than just TIPS students) to get access to ...
  2. Read the Standards & Practices Manual sometime before you ...
  3. Submit the Parents Toolshop® Leader application. If you want to be an RT Expert, you'll apply for that certification after you are a PT-DSP (Parents Toolshop® Direct Service Provider, or you have both Advisor and GF certifications)
  4. Once approved, Jody will contact you to schedule a Strategy Session to get links to move on to the Advisor Certification Training.
  5. You can continue completing the TIPS4Leaders Word document, specifically:
    • Listen to all the "Worst Parenting Challenges ---- Solved!" Audio album
    • Use the Choose Your Own Solution Hintbook to plan PASRR Formula responses to possible challenges. 
      • Advisors or GF applicants can do 5. 
      • RT Experts will want to do 10 challenges related to your chosen niche/
FAPT DSP Leader Application
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New Leader Agreement
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