WHAT SETS OUR COACHES & PROGRAMS APART?

Parent and Health Coach Professionals trained and certified by the International Parenting & Health Institute through our Baby Planning, Adult Sleep Coaching, Pregnancy & Child Sleep Coaching, Pre-Postnatal Nutrition, Childbirth Education, Stress Management Coaching and Breastfeeding Education certification programs are non-medical coaching professionals that provide evidenced-based practical and realistic customized solutions to a very high demand of struggling parents and non-parents seeking help to overcome various health and lifestyle challenges. The International Parenting & Health Institute trains and equips their Parent and Health Coaches with comprehensive evidenced based education (that includes both theory and practice) to empower and provide solutions for their clients most optimally.

Our coaches learn how to be in a collaborative relationship with their clients in order to provide their clients an opportunity to learn about themselves, increase their self-worth and control the decision-making process. Doing so motivates clients to carry out actions that are of interest and value to them leading to behavioral change that initiated from self-autonomy and not from dependency on their coach.

Our training involves both theory and practice and at least a minimum of one hundred twenty five hours of education, including being mentored through case studies and working with volunteers. Our coaches are also required to maintain their education by renewing their credentials usually every two years with proof of continued education and do not diagnose, examine or treat their clients.

In addition, all of our programs ensure our professionals learn:

• signs and symptoms of medical conditions to know when and how to refer out
• active listening
• how to meet clients where they are at
• powerful questioning, such as motivational interviewing and question customization
• how to track progress and accountability
• practical and realistic planning and goal setting
• how to establish a coaching presence
• how to categorize and prioritize short term and long-term goals
• how to performing a thorough investigation and evaluation through our “Holistic Science of Coaching Method”

• how to uncover the root cause of their client’s challenge
• the connection between coaching and personal development

Furthermore, our trained and certified Parent and Health coaches learn how to establish a collaborative relationship with doctors and therapists in order to help them manage their patients’ health and lifestyle choices. They follow the International Parenting and Health Institute’s Holistic Science of Coaching Method to thoroughly evaluate and explore various factors that impact their client’s health and lifestyle choices that doctors and therapists may have overlooked.

This allows our Parent and Health Coaches to provide insight, feedback, suggestions, and tools for the parent and non-parent with personalized action steps they can begin implementing right away.

OUR COMMITMENT

We will be at the forefront of enhancing the lives of those who utilize our services, paying particular attention to the quality and care to each of our programs and classes, to which our participants are subscribed. We will treat every participant and community member with the utmost respect, invite diversity and we will never look down on anyone as it is the foundation upon which a business like ours is built.

We will make sure that evaluations and surveys are always carried out to know how we can improve our business as well as the quality of each of our coaching programs and services. Our sources of revenue will be complemented with the provision of the best strategies with which our services could be carried out without necessarily expending our budget.

Although we will be offering a variety of free programs, resources and support groups, fees will be charged for membership subscriptions, professional programs, classes consultations, speaking engagements and merchandise. Participants who are survivors of domestic violence and child abuse as well as pregnant teens and anyone in an underserved community who lack financial support, do not pay any fees.

We are quite optimistic that our values and the quality of our service will help us drive International Parenting & Health Institute to enviable heights, helping us attract a successful, talented and supportive community in order to continue growing and expanding our mission and outreach. We will be dedicated to establishing and maintaining impeccable professional relationships with our community, providing them outstanding support, education and reasons to continue working with us. We will also leverage our research and development team to continue producing high quality education while delivering impeccable support.

These activities augment our efforts to optimally educate and support parenting and health professionals in order to improve the overall wellbeing of struggling parents and non-parents, so they can live a healthier, productive, peaceful and fulfilled life while creating more effective and positive interactions with others. As a result, it helps to prevent domestic violence, child abuse, mental disorders and minimize the health and lifestyle challenges that can arise from the modern-day struggles and stresses parents and non-parents face. In addition, we will role model, teach and encourage positive outlooks and empathy to inspire everyone to learn, grow and expand. We will also nourish and promote an unbiased educational space that supports inclusion and diversity; teaching respect, understanding and acceptance.

OUR NOTABLE CONTRIBUTIONS

We are proud to be known as the first organization to:

• Introduce the first Baby Planner certification program in 2009 to the Baby Planner professional industry and authored the first baby planning book to the Baby Planner industry titled “The Baby Planner: A Guide to Becoming a Baby Planner and Starting Your Own Business.”
• Introduce the first Holistic Pregnancy & Child Sleep Consultant Certification in 2012 to the Child Sleep Consultant industry and Integrative Adult Sleep Coach Certification in 2015, training professionals and raising an incredible amount of awareness to vital subjects that, at the time, were not being considered or evaluated as part of the child sleep consultant-client relationship. This led us to introduce our  Holistic Science of Sleep Method for Adult & Child Sleep.
• Introduce and launch an Eco-Maternity Consultant & Greenbirth Educator certification program in 2010, expanding coaching professionals knowledge and skillset for non-toxic living.
• Introduce and launch an integrative Pre-Post Natal Nutrition Coach Certification program in 2013, expanding coaching professionals holistic nutrition knowledge and skillset for working with clients throughout pregnancy and postpartum.
• Introduce and launch the first Holistic Childbirth Educator program in 2014, covering all the topics found in childbirth education in addition to introducing and raising awareness a variety of vital topics not typically found in childbirth education such as the importance of greening your pregnancy, birth and postpartum environment in order to understand environmental causes and effects beneficial to optimizing mom and baby’s health; pregnancy sleep and newborn sleep, postpartum plan and much more.