Skip to main content
Menu

CPC · 6-week certification program

Certified Parent Coach

Guiding parents through evidence-based strategies to strengthen family dynamics, child development, and confident parenting.

Overview

About this program

Coaches parents across literacy, numeracy, social-emotional learning, health and school partnership, built on growth mindset and grit, so parents move from "I can't do this" to "I can learn this."

Program highlights

  • 100% online and self-paced
  • 5-7 hours per week
  • No prerequisites, any experience level
  • A certificate and a digital credential badge

Six-week curriculum

  1. Week 1: Growth mindset, grit, the coaching relationship
  2. Week 2: Literacy and numeracy development
  3. Week 3: Social and emotional learning
  4. Week 4: Health, hygiene, family wellbeing
  5. Week 5: Communication with teachers and children
  6. Week 6: Professional practice, ethics, capstone

Where graduates work

  • Schools and early learning
  • Family resource organizations
  • Home visiting
  • Pediatric and public health
  • Private practice

After your course

Continue your journey as a BIHD Graduate

Complete the program and meet the certification requirements to become eligible for BIHD Graduate status. Once approved, you can build your professional profile and offer sessions or services through the BIHD Graduate network.

  1. Complete & get certifiedFinish the course and meet the required certification criteria.
  2. Become a BIHD GraduateAfter certification, you can progress to Graduate status following BIHD approval.
  3. Offer professional sessionsApproved Graduates can create a professional profile and, where available, offer sessions or services to customers through BIHD.

BIHD Marketplace

Your relationship with BIHD does not end at graduation

For many institutions, support stops on graduation day, leaving qualified graduates to find their own way into work. BIHD continues: approved Graduates move into a professional matching marketplace, where they can be connected with customers and begin working as certified professionals, where available.