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Foster-Adoptive Parents Toolshop® BASIC T.I.P.S. (Trauma-Informed Parenting Skills)

A 6-Module Training Series (20 Total Hours)

The most fun, edu-taining way to learn the Universal Blueprint® system that’s trauma-informed, research-based, and advanced yet easy to digest and process. 

Pre-service only has time to teach you the REQUIREMENTS.

This is the Training You HOPED Pre-Service Was

(But it Wasn't) So, You've been WISHING to find THIS

You’ve completed pre-service. You're licensed. Now it’s time for the training that actually shows you what to do in real-life parenting moments.

This comprehensive 6-module series combines research-based parenting, trauma-informed care, and practical tools you can use immediately—with your foster or adopted children and every child you care for.

Why This Training Matters

Foster-adoptive parenting requires more than good intentions—it requires clarity, consistency, and the right tools.

This course helps you:

  • Move from reacting to responding with intention

  • Understand why behaviors happen and how to address them effectively

  • Build a calm, respectful home environment—even during difficult moments

  • Get on the same page with your co-parent or caregiving team

What You Will Gain From Taking This Course

✅ A Parenting Approach That Works Long-Term

Develop a balanced parenting style that helps you:

  • Stay consistent under stress

  • Raise children who are respectful, responsible, and emotionally healthy

  • Align your parenting decisions with your long-term goals and values

👉 Attend with your parenting partner to create a shared approach and eliminate mixed messages.

✅ A Simple Formula for Handling ANY Parenting Challenge

Stop guessing.

You’ll learn a step-by-step decision-making framework you can use in any situation—so you always know:

  • What type of problem you’re facing

  • What response works best

  • How to meet both your child’s needs AND your family’s boundaries

✅ Build Self-Esteem—Without Creating Entitlement

Discover how to:

  • Nurture true confidence and resilience

  • Help children think for themselves

  • Equip them to resist peer pressure

  • Avoid the trap of raising self-centered behavior

✅ Get Cooperation Without Power Struggles

Learn proven strategies to:

  • Reduce backtalk, defiance, and resistance

  • Encourage children to cooperate the first time you ask

  • Eliminate the need for:

    • Bribes

    • Yelling

    • Repeated reminders

✅ Reduce Meltdowns & Teach Problem-Solving

Use a simple 3-step process to:

  • De-escalate emotional situations quickly

  • Turn conflicts into teachable moments

  • Help children:

    • Calm themselves

    • Solve their own problems

    • Make responsible decisions

✅ Manage Anger, Stress & Trauma Triggers

Using a 2-step system, you’ll learn how to:

  • Identify your own triggers—and your child’s

  • Understand how trauma responses are formed

  • Unwire trigger patterns and replace them with healthier responses

  • Create individualized stress/anger plans for both you and your child

✅ Communicate Effectively—Even with “Parent Deafness”

Master 10 powerful communication tools that:

  • Get through to children who “aren’t listening”

  • Eliminate guilt trips, lectures, and blame

  • Help children hear you—without tuning you out

✅ Understand and Prevent Problem Behavior

Instead of reacting to behavior, you’ll learn to:

  • Understand the root causes of misbehavior

  • Identify whether behavior is intentional or skill-based

  • Prevent problems before they start

  • Address behaviors in ways that create lasting change

✅ Discipline That Builds Responsibility (Without Being the “Bad Guy”)

Follow an easy-to-use discipline formula that:

  • Teaches instead of punishes

  • Helps children learn from mistakes

  • Builds self-discipline and accountability

  • Maintains connection instead of conflict

BONUSES

  • The Parent’s Toolshop® Jump Start Action Guide (34 pages)

  • Foster-Adoptive Parents Toolshop® Action Guide (53 pages)

  • GRADUATE BENEFITS: Submit all the course assignments to receive lifetime graduate benefits, including LIFETIME support through:

  • LIVE Monthly Parents Toolshop® Graduate Webinars for ALL Parents Toolshop® Graduates. Your attendance may qualify for additional training hours! Inquire after registration. (Valued at $97/monthly webinar x 12 months)

  • PRIVATE Facebook group for all Parents Toolshop® graduates AND exclusively for Foster-Adoptive Parents Toolshop® Grads. (Valued at $47/month x 12 months)

  • Discounts on private coaching and other graduate-only services. (Valued at over $1200/year) 

  • $179 or 3 monthly payments of $69

Your Comprehensive Training Package Includes

14 hours of videos of LIVE foster-adoptive parent training workshops!

+ 2 hours to complete 4 post-tests (100 questions).

+ 3 hours to read The Parent’s Toolshop® Jump Start Guide ebook (152 pages)

+ 1 hour to answer 50 review questions

= 20 CEU hours.

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This program as been

Approved for 20 Continuing Education Hours!

for Social Workers, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Art therapists

This program has been approved for 20 Continuing Education hours for Social Work & Counselor CEU hours by the State of Ohio Counselor Social Worker and Marriage & Family Therapist Board (Approved Provider number: 50-32634). Course Approval #: 20-1377162. To receive CEUs, follow the directions in the final lesson of the online course.

Not in Ohio, an Ohio Nurse? The certificate and hours you receive are usually approved or accepted by many other licensing boards.

Foster-Adoptive Parents: Our trainers are all licensed professionals. and in most cased are approved trainers for Ohio (OCWTP) and/or San Diego (SD-FAKCE). Foster Parents Toolshop has more, newer, and less costly (usually free) weinars then FosterParentCollege!

Please send a link to this page to your licensing board or caseworker to verify if they accept these Ohio State CEUs.

Testimonials from Foster-Adoptive Parent Gradutes

This is by far the best workshop we have attended. Every week we learned things we could take home and apply immediately. In many areas it introduced a whole new way of thinking (and talking). 

Cheryl A. Neff

This course was like winning the lottery, I quickly used the techniques and it worked immediately! It was awesome getting everything I needed to help my child grow up safe and strong all in one course.

Susan Elias

I have been a foster parent for 3 years and attend 10 hours of training each year. This is by far the most useful and helpful of all the seminars we have attended. It's the one that gives me practical techniques that I actually use every day.

Cathy Miller

This class has taught me skills to cope with my children. Our family is now talking and listening to each other. I could use more classes to keep up with our growing family. The kids are more enjoyable and learning the skills for themselves.

Candace McCabe

This class has taught me how to integrate love, kindness and caring with healthy discipline, active communication and the skills of pause and acknowledging the child’s feelings. Life and raising children is a process. Now it’s time to have a life-changing and rewarding process. I really want to thank Jody Pawel for instructing this wonderful class and putting her heart and passion into it. Thank you Jody for The Parents Toolshop. 

Deborah Carmichael

How the Course Works

Complete each of the 6 modules by reading a chapter of the The Parent's Toolshop® Jump Start Guide, watch a video (1-3 hours) of a live foster-adoptive parent training workshop,  and complete a master review cheat sheet and optional practice exercises to apply what you are learning to your family. Submit them for your certificate.

You can even attend optional live support webinars for personalized support and coaching. This helps you be accountable, process and apply what you are learning, ask questions, and get personalized coaching to help you master the skills. You'll even discover how to leverage all you learn to improve all your relationships, even those with other adults! If you want to transform your parenting, family and life, this is the course to take. 

Presented by Jody Johnston Pawel, LSW, CFLE, CTSS

Jody is a Licensed Social Worker, Certified Family Life Educator, and Certified Trauma Support Specialist. She is one of a few second-generation parent educators and author of several research-based parenting books and curricula. She is a former  protective service caseworker, in the Sexual Abuse Unit. She has been training parents, foster-adoptive parents and family service professionals for over 30 years and has been an approved OCWTP  (Ohio Child Welfare Training Program) trainer for 20 years.

Contents

Welcome to the FAPT BASIC T.I.P.S. Series

The BASIC Foster-Adoptive TIPS Training Includes:
Preview
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Welcome! Follow These Directions & Download your E-books

MODULE 1: FOUNDATION-BUILDING TOOLBOX (Parenting Mindsets, Styles, and UB system)

Do the reading assignments and Action Guide tasks for this Toolbox.

Here are your videos to watch for this Toolbox:

FAPT-6wk-Session01-HANDOUT-01-IntroductionChaps1-2-MindsetStyles-s.pdf
FAPT-Module-1-Part-1-Intro-overview.mp4
FAPT-Module-1-Part2-FoundationalBasics.mp4
FAPT-Module-1-Part3-ConsciousParenting.mp4
FAPT-Module-1-Part4-ParentingStyles.mp4
FAPT-Module-1-Part-5-checkinsF-B.mp4
FAPT-6wk-Session02-HANDOUT-02-UBflowchartEmpty(PRINT-LANDSCAPE).pdf
FAPT-Module-1-Part-6-UB-Q1.mp4
FAPT-Module-1-Part-7-UB-Q2.mp4
FAPT-Module-1-Part-8-PASRR.mp4
FAPT-Module-1-Part-9-checkinsUB

MODULE 2: PREVENTION TOOLBOX (Self-Esteem, Cooperation, and Independence Toolsets))

Do the reading assignments and Action Guide tasks for this Toolset.

Here are your videos to watch for this Toolset:

FAPT-6wk-Session02-HANDOUT-01-Chaps3-4-UB-Self-Esteem-s.pdf
FAPT-6wk-Session02-HANDOUT-03P&E_Practice.pdf
FAPT-Module-2-Part-1-Self-EsteemToolset.mp4
FAPT Module-2-Part-2-Practice.mp4
FAPT Module-2-Part-3-checkinsDIP.mp
FAPT-6wk-Session02-HANDOUT-04-Chaps5-6-Coop-Indep+bonus(3lines-10pgs)-s.pdf
FAPT-6wk-Session05-HANDOUT-05speclangWKSHT.pdf
FAPT-Module-2-Part-4-CooperationToolset.mp4
FAPT-Module-2-Part-5-What2Avoid.mp4
FAPT-Module-2-Part-6-What2Do.mp4
• FAPT- Module-2-Part-7-IndependenceToolset.mp4
FAPT-6wk-Session02-HANDOUT-05-Chore&AgeChart-Rios.pdf

MODULE 3: CHILD PROBLEM TOOLBOX - (F-A-X Listening & Sibling Toolsets)

Do the reading assignments and Action Guide tasks for this Toolbox.

Here are your videos to watch for this Toolbox:

FAPT-6wk-Session03-HANDOUT-01-ChildProblemToolbox-FAX-Sibs-Chaps7-8(6up-8pgs)-s.pdf
FAPT-6wk-Session03-HANDOUT-02-PSworksheet.pdf
FAPT-Module-3-Child-FAX-Part-1.mp4
FAPT-Module-3-Child-FAX-Part-2.mp4
FAPT-Module-3-Child-FAX-Part-3.mp4
FAPT-Module-3-Child-FAX-Part-4.mp4
FAPT-Module-3-Child-Sibs-1-Prevention.mp4
FAPT-Module-3-Child-Sibs-2-WhenKidsFight.mp4
FAPT-Module-3-Child-Sibs-3-Top10SibConflicts.mp4
FAPT-Module-3-Child-Check-ins-ChildProb.mp4

MODULE 4: PARENT PROBLEM TOOLBOX (Keep Your Cool & Clear Communication Toolsets)

Do the reading assignments and Action Guide tasks for this Toolbox.

Here are your videos to watch for this Toolbox:

FAPT-6wk-Session04-HANDOUT-01-ParentProblemToolbox-Chap9-10-CoolComm(6up-6pgs)-s.pdf
FAPT-Module-4-Parent-Part-1-KeepCoolBasics.mp4
FAPT-Module-4-Parent-Part-2-PersonalizedPlans.mp4
FAPT-Module-4-Parent-Part-3-TraumaTriggers.mp4
FAPT-Module-4-Parent-Part-4-AdvCool.mp4
FAPT-Module-4-Parent-Part-5-ReprogramTraumaTriggers.mp4
FAPT-6wk-Session04-HANDOUT-02AngerLog.pdf
FAPT-6wk-Session04-HANDOUT-03EFTdiagramHandout.pdf
FAPT-Module-4-Parent-Part-6-ClearCommun.mp4
FAPT-Module-4-Part-7-Check-ins.mp4

MODULE 5: PROBLEM BEHAVIOR TOOLBOX (PU, PO, and Discipline Toolsets)

Do the reading assignments and Action Guide tasks for this Toolbox.

Here are your videos to watch for this Toolbox:

FAPT-6wk-Session05-HANDOUT-01-ProblemBehaviorToolbox-Chap11-13-PU-PO-Disc(6up-9pgs)-s.pdf
FAPT-6wk-Session05-HANDOUT-02-MisbehaviorTableOnly(PRINT-LANDSCAPE).pdf
FAPT-Module-5-ProbBeh-Part-1-PUToolset.mp4
FAPT-Module-5-ProbBeh-Part-2-POToolset1.mp4
FAPT-Module-5-ProbBeh-Part-3-POToolset2.mp4
FAPT-Module-5-ProbBeh-Part-4-DisciplineVsPunish.mp4
FAPT-6wk-Session05-HANDOUT-03_LangOfDisc.pdf
FAPT-Module-5-ProbBeh-Part-5-DisciplineTools.mp4
FAPT-6wk-Session05-HANDOUT-04-Dec-MkgWksht-secure.pdf
FAPT-6wk-Session05-HANDOUT-06_MisbehaviorTable-Key.pdf
FAPT-Module-5-ProbBeh-Part-6-PASRR-Formula-Application.mp4

MODULE 6: MAINTENANCE TOOLBOX (Family Councils Toolset & The 3 C's)

Do the reading assignments and Action Guide tasks for this Toolbox.

Here are your videos to watch for this Toolbox:

FAPT-6wk-Session06-HANDOUT-01speclangKEY.pdf
FAPT-6wk-Session06-HANDOUT-01-UBflowchartComplete5columns(PRINT-LANDSCAPE).pdf
FAPT-6wk-Session06-HANDOUT-02_UBforAdultsHAND.pdf
FAPT-Module-6-Part-1-MaintenanceToolbox.mp4
FAPT-Module-6-Part-2-Testimonials.mp4 (optional to watch; still mark complete)

To get a Completion Certificate

To get a completion certificate
Follow these ADDITIONAL steps if you want Continuing Education Units

Course Competencies (OCWTP)

Skill Set 305-01: Ability to transmit information to parents and caregivers realistic expectations for their children’s behavior
  • 305-01-002 Knows how cultural values and standards regarding parenting and discipline practices can impact parents’ and caregivers’ behavior toward their children 
  • 305-01-004 Understands how a parent’s or caregiver's history of child maltreatment, lack of attachment, and other family problems may contribute to his lack of parenting knowledge and inappropriate expectations for children's behavior 
  • 305-01-005 Knows a variety of ways to explain concepts regarding child development and behavior, and knows how to adapt the explanation to parent's/caregiver's cognitive ability and learning styles 
  • 305-01-006 Can help parents and caregivers develop realistic expectations of their children’s behavior 


Skill Set 305-02: Ability to teach parents and caregivers appropriate nurturing and disciplinary strategies individualized to their children’s needs
  • 305-02-007 Knows how to choose or adapt teaching methods that are suitable for the preferences and capabilities of the parent or caregiver, and are consistent with the parent's or caregiver’s cultural values and standards 
  • 305-02-008 Can help parents and caregivers develop skills in non-abusive, nurturing parenting behaviors appropriate for their children’s needs 
  • 305-02-009 Can teach parenting skills to individuals or groups of parents and caregivers