Leader Certification Step 3: Group Facilitator Certification Training

$1,497 or 3 monthly payments of $515.25

Leader Certification Step 3: Group Facilitator Certification Training - Child Relationships (PT Team)

(The course isn't closed; it just isn't an "open enrollment." You can be manually enrolled after completing the pre-requisite courses.)

*Prior to starting this training program, all Leader Applicants must have successfully graduated from a live full-length Parents Toolshop® class or On-line T.I.P.S. (Tools for Improving Parenting Success) course & be an active Certified Parents Toolshop® Advisor.

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There Are Two Training Format Options

THE CONTENT IS THE SAME FOR BOTH.

The in-person training is 3 days and may involve travel expenses for the applicant. If there are 4+ applicants in a geographic area who are ready for training, Jody Pawel will provide the training at their location if her travel expenses are covered. The training tuition fee is the same. If there are more than 4 people from one agency, group discounts are available. Live training programs may be videotaped to maintain ongoing updates to the on-line videos and to enhance other GF trainees’ learning experience.

The GF on-line training takes up to 6 weeks. (4 weeks to watch the videos and complete the workbook (about 2 videos/week) + 2 weeks to send in the practice video.) It is a virtual training, so we want the trainees to get the same level of personalized training the in-person trainees get, so Jody Pawel or a GF Certification Liaison will conduct tele-conferences regularly with trainees (see below for frequency).

Want to TEACH parent education programs using The Parent’s Toolshop® curriculum and its Proprietary Universal Blueprint® System?

The Parent’s Toolshop® is a comprehensive research-based practical skill-building parenting curriculum that has been successfully implemented for 30 years with tens of thousands of parents worldwide.

What makes The Parent’s Toolshop® unique is its proprietary problem-solving process called the “Universal Blueprint® for Parenting Success System,” which teaches parents how to prevent problems and guides them to individualized solutions to those that arise.

The Universal Blueprint® is so effective that parent educators can use the Universal Blueprint® and model its skills to teach the process to parents. Therefore, only certified Parents Toolshop® instructors are authorized to teach the system to others.

This certification training prepares Parent’s Toolshop® instructors to present the curriculum through interactive activities, small group discussions, and practice exercises. They also learn to perform pre-post skill assessments and other program evaluation methods developed specifically for this program by a PhD Evaluation Specialist at the United Way.

Lastly, for any program to be successful, potential participants must know the program exists. Parents Toolshop® uses education-based, relationship-building methods in its awareness-building activities.

All of these are skills and tasks not usually taught in 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® programs, all potential Group Facilitators must pass stringent screening and complete a Parent’s Toolshop® parenting program (to learn/experience the curriculum) and other pre-requisites to be eligible to attend this specialized training.

Objectives: Participants will learn how to . . .

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.
- With teach Toolset, we review how to teach it AND how to use and model those tools as a group facilitator! THIS is THE most valuable aspect of THIS certification training YOU WON'T GET ANYWHERE ELSE or in any other curriculum
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.
Be a dynamic, entertaining and informative speaker, effective group discussion leader and lead interactive activities that raise awareness while teaching skills, by learning advanced presentation 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!

All-Inclusive Training & Resource Package

The GF certification training fee is all-inclusive. All training materials are provided to you in digital format. You may optionally purchase hard copies of them (print books, CDs, DVDs) if you choose. Upon successfully completing the entire certification process, the new Group Facilitator will receive access to every GF presentation resource that is available, again by digital download. These include, but are not limited to:

Outcome Evaluation Skill Assessment Tool
Interactive Activity Directions
Puzzle Masters (crosswords, seek & find, etc.)
Flip chart size House Blueprint poster
PowerPoint presentation file
Publicity Masters and aids
Class Graduation Certificate Master
Presentation outlines, handouts and PowerPoint slides for Parents Toolshop® programs, including:
- Lunchtime topic series (10 sessions)
- Teens & Parents Together (6 week follow-up for graduates & their teens)
- Teleseminar series to present live
- Individual topic presentations, such as: backtalk, bedtime, bullies, difficult people, tantrums … and dozens more!

We are adding workshops and programs constantly and whatever we create our trainers can use!

This program as been

Approved for Continuing Education Hours

for Social Workers, Counselors

This program has been approved for 15 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: RSX012201).

Not in Ohio, an Ohio Nurse, or a Foster-Adoptive Parent? The certificate and hours you receive are usually approved or accepted by many other licensing boards. Please check with your own board or caseworker to verify if they accept them.

Introduction

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Module 1: Introductions ~ Ethics, Standards & Practices ~ Cultural Sensitivity

DAY 1 (Live or Video 1)
Introductions

Overview of training
• Variety of uses of TPT
• Getting Started

Ethics – Standards and Practices

• Certification process & probation, etc.
• Recertification
• Levels of certification

Core Skills:

• Cultural Sensitivity and Issues in Parent Education
• Effective Speaking
• Using Interactive Activities in Parent Education Groups.

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Module 2: Teaching/Modeling the Universal Blueprint® – Chapters 1-4

DAY 2 (Live or Videos 2-4)

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

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Prevention Toolbox (continued)

Independence Toolset
• Teaching skills, building participants’ independence and motivating responsibility

Child (Student) Problem Toolbox

• Using F-A-X to empower parents

Parent (Leader) Problem Toolbox
• Keeping Your Cool & Teaching Others to, too

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Module 4: Teaching/Modeling the Universal Blueprint® – Chapters 10-15

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

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Module 5: Group Facilitator Reporting & Skill Assessments

(This will say "Video 6, but this is the better order to learn it, right after we've been focusing on the chapters.)

Group Facilitator Reporting & Skill Assessments

• Performing parenting skill assessments
• When and what to report to PTC

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Module 6: Getting Started & Growing Your Parent’s Toolshop® Programs

Marketing The Parent’s Toolshop®

*There are two different marketing training tracks:

– One for Non-profit organization staff who are marketing to the community or their clients

The first set of videos shows Deanna Todd sharing how she marketed her program through a non-profit, many of her strategies are transferable. So we want everyone to watch her video.

– One for independent individual consultants who are building a speaking business.

We've added the video of the marketing training we provided during one of our live train-the-trainer events.

And a one-hour overview video of the 6 Steps to Starting and Growing YOUR Family Life Practice course, which gives you the key steps and tools now.

All of the methods and strategies we share as our universal approach to marketing focus on serving people and helping them solve problems instead of “selling.”

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After the Training

After completing the videos, workbook and attending all the training calls, refer to the “Congratulations” (last two) pages of the workbook.

There, you will find instructions for doing your practice presentation (see evaluation form below) and submitting your GF certification forms (see zip file below)

1. Schedule your Practice Presentation: give participants the Practice Presentation Evaluation

2. Submit the following to your Video Certification Liaison:

– The completed workbook and scoring grid

– Your practice presentation video

– All the Practice Presentation Evaluation forms

– The Group Facilitator Forms

– The Group Facilitator Directory form.

– The Leader skill assessment. This is similar to the parenting skill assessment you completed with your pre-certification study guide, but the situations are leadership scenarios. Without looking at your notes (you can=t in real life!!), complete the questionnaire according to its directions.

– Read, complete and sign the Group Facilitator Agreement.

3. After receiving your GF training certificate, complete your Probationary requirements.

See the last page of the GF video certification workbook for details.

Use these forms: (also see the appendix section of the S&P manual)

– PTC Program Evaluation Form – for all programs herein.

– PROBATIONARY GF REPORT

To Receive Your Course Completion Certificate

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