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Professional Trainings

Initial Parent Educator Training

Practical Parent Education’s Initial Parent Educator Training is designed to give participants a comprehensive set of skills in two days of interactive fun. Practical application and practice are joined with theory and research so that parent educators leave with the following concepts and the confidence to make them applicable in their programs:

  • an understanding of the field of parent education as it has emerged in the 21st century

  • recognition of the benefits to children when parents and families have appropriate parenting skills

  • confidence in establishing and maintaining appropriate professional boundaries

  • an understanding of family systems and its application to parent education

  • awareness of the ways that lifespan development affects families

  • an understanding of how long term change takes place

  • effective strategies for increasing parental capacity and parental involvement

  • effective group facilitation skills

  • strategies for promoting school and community support for parent education programs

  • awareness of funding opportunities

  • short term and long term goals for parent education programs

  • familiarity with services, support, and materials offered through Practical Parent Education membership

Initial Parent Educator Training: Available only to PPE Subscribers and is included in the PPE subscription package.                  For subscription information, click here.

To schedule a training in your area, please call 877.340.6262 or email ppe@practicalparent.org.

              Trainings scheduled at your site requires a minimum of 12 participants and the hosting program will be                        responsible for the trainer's travel expenses. 

Training scheduled at PPE's home office in McKinney, Texas requires a minimum registration and may be cancelled if the minimum is not met.  Registrants will be rescheduled for their convenience.

 

Training Schedule

Location Date
  McKinney, Texas September 13-14, 2010
  Kingsville, Texas Late September 2010, date TBD
  Tulsa, Oklahoma October 5-7, 2010  Registration Form HERE
  San Antonio, Texas October 5-6, 2010  San Antonio Registration Form HERE
  Bastrop, Louisiana October 7-8, 2010  Bastrop Registration Form HERE
  Point Coupee Parish, Louisiana October 7-8, 2010  (FULL)
  Indianapolis, Indiana October 14-15, 2010 Indianapolis Registration form HERE
  Hopewell, Virginia October 21-22, 2010  Hopewell Registration Form HERE
  McKinney, Texas December 9-10, 2010
     

McKinney Training Registration Form


 

For Kids’ Sake

For Kids’ Sake is a four hour research based seminar designed to give parents information and skills to reduce the negative effects of their divorce on their children.  Facilitator training for For Kids’ Sake prepares and licenses people to conduct the four hour seminar in their specific geographic area.  In the training, they receive a Facilitator’s Guide, parent handbook masters, and a license permit to use all For Kids’ Sake materials, artwork and logos.

FKS Facilitator Training can be scheduled monthly in McKinney, Texas.  Participants attend a three hour afternoon workshop and observe a veteran facilitator conducting an actual seminar from 6:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. that evening.

Mental health professionals and teams of 2 are recommended. 

Cost $500 for licensing and training of up to 2 facilitators, and $200 per year for renewals pending favorable evaluations.

Call 877.340.6262 to arrange training

Training registration form and license application