Participants are educators, therapists, social workers, lay people who work with parents in their communities, Special Education teachers, Day Care providers, Early Childhood and other School directors and administrators.

00 for registration. This cost includes a wealth of learning materials and other materials for your use in your practice as a Care Professional working with families, parents and children.

Discounts are available for groups of 12 or more care professionals from the same organization. If you have such a group, please contact katharine@socialsustain.com to arrange your discount.

We offer this training twice a year, in April, and December.

The Seminar is offered as three, 2-hour tele-classes on three consecutive days. The schedule for the upcoming seminar is posted below this FAQ list.

We are currently reviewing the CEU approval status in order to better serve professionals in several fields. We are happy to provide a custom letter indicating contact hours and seminar content for your licensing board.

No specific preparation is required. It can, however, be very helpful to have read the book Simplicity Parenting by Kim John Payne before the seminar.

It will help your learning to spend about 30 minutes before each class previewing the powerpoint presentation for that class.

Yes! The learning material is downloadable, using directions you receive upon registration. You can buy Skype phone minutes very inexpensively to pay for attending the conference calls from anywhere in the world.

You will need to able to:

• Click on links and access your learning materials on our website.
• Attend a long distance phone conference call using directions given on registration.
• Look at a power point presentation on a computer during the conference calls.
• Have email for communication with your instructor.
• Upload and send documents and download attachments.

Many of our participants have found gaining familiarity with new technology and skills a valuable part of the Seminar experience.

All the conference calls are recorded, and are available for six months after the Seminar so you can easily catch up, and refresh later. We encourage you not to miss more than two calls. If you are requiring NASW CEU’s you are required to attend at least two calls.

We are happy to collaborate with any community that would like an on-site seminar. This would involve that community finding at least 15 participants, a good location, and a Site Coordinator, and being within three hours drive of Western Massachusetts. We provide registration administration, ongoing guidance and written materials as support.

Yes, we offer a full, 100%, money-back guarantee on all our trainings. If after the second call, you feel this is not for you, let us know and we'll refund your tuition.

After the second call, no refund is available. But you may transfer your tuition to a future seminar.