A five-session online course offered by Lisa Greene and based on Love & Logic, for parent coaches, parent educators, and medical and mental-health professionals. See ParentingChildrenwithHealthIssues.com. Call Lisa, 425-891-2842, or see HappyHeartFamilies.com. (FT, $)
Positive Discipline: Teaching Parenting the Positive Discipline Way
Positive Discipline, Sound Discipline, Puget Sound Adlerian Society. May 17 – 19. Rainier Valley, Seattle. Questions: call or e-mail Sahara Pirie, 206-546-4142,Sahara@PirieLabs.com. (FT, $425)
Positive Discipline: Teaching Parenting DVD Facilitator Training
See store.PositiveDiscipline.com/teaching-parenting-dvd.html. For online version, see Online Teaching Parenting DVD Facilitator Training – Video Streaming Version (FT, $195 or less)
Sound Discipline Positive Discipline Practitioners’ Group
The Virtues Project Facilitator Program
Call or email Betsy Lydle Smith, 425-753-6498, Betsy@Virtues.training.com, or see VirtuesProject.com. (FT, $)
Academy for Coaching Parents International
Parent/family coach certification distance-training program. Call Dr. Caron Goode, 520-979-4470, or see AcademyforCoachingParents.com (free coaching webinar). (FT, $, scholarships)
Active Parenting. Leader Training Workshops
Call Active Parenting Publishers, 1-800-825-0060, ext. 120, or see ActiveParenting.com and ActiveParenting.com/OLTW . (FT, one-day live $159 or $139 early bird special; one-day Webinar $159, five-hour Webinar $129).
Alliance for Child Welfare Excellence
A cooperative program of the University of Washington, the University of Washington Tacoma, Eastern Washington University, the state’s Children’s Administration, and Partners for Our Chil-dren together providing training for social workers, community providers, foster and adoptive parents, and relative caregivers. See AllianceforChildWelfare.org/about/partners, call 206-923-4914, or email region2s@UW.edu.
Edmonds Community College: Family Support Studies
Parent Mentor Certificate. Lynnwood. Call 425-640-1665 or see or see http://www.edcc.edu/programs/fss/default.html. (PP, FT, $)
Mentor Group for Parent Educators
Sound Discipline. Sahara Pirie. Meets monthly in Shoreline. Information: call or email Sahara, 206-782-1595, info@SoundDiscipline.org, facebook.com/SoundDiscipline/. (FT, free, Spanish group also available)