Built for the people who read the certificate.
Courts hand parents a provider list, then spend staff time verifying what comes back. We would rather make that work disappear. Verification is free forever, no account required. Everything else on this page is a free professional account, because the person checking compliance should never be the person paying for it.
Who these accounts are for
One account type, shaped by your role. There is no professional tier to buy and no per-seat fee for a court.
Judges and judicial officers
Confirm a certificate in seconds without a clerk chasing a provider by phone, and read the curriculum before you put us on a list.
Clerks and court administrators
A verification page that needs no login, no account, and no call back, plus a documentation packet you can hand to whoever maintains the provider list.
Attorneys
Send a client a link, watch the deadline get met, and stop calling to ask. Volume seats are available for a family law practice.
Mediators
Know which parent has finished before the session starts, so the hour goes to the parenting plan rather than to compliance housekeeping.
Guardians and child advocates
Documented completion for the report, and a course written to keep the child at the center rather than to fill an hour.
What the account does
Five things, each of them a job somebody in a courthouse is currently doing by hand.
Instant certificate verification
Every certificate carries a unique ID and a QR code. Scan it or type the ID and the record confirms itself: participant, course, statutory hours, completion date, and issuing provider. Free, permanent, and no login, because a clerk should not need credentials to check a document a parent handed them.
- Optionally enter a case number and we confirm whether it matches our record.
- We never display the case number or reveal anything about a family, so the page cannot be used to look people up.
- A refunded or voided certificate reports as void, not as valid.
Referral links with live completion status
Your own link. Send it to a client or order it in a case, and your dashboard shows where each referred parent stands: enrolled, in progress, module count, seat time logged, certificate issued. No more calling a provider to ask whether somebody started.
- Status is visible only where the parent consents at enrollment. Consent is per professional and the parent can withdraw it, which is what makes this usable in an adversarial case.
- Without consent you still get what the court is entitled to: whether a certificate exists, and its verification record.
- Course answers, quiz responses, and written reflections are never shared. Ever.
Bulk seats for agencies
Buy a block of seats and distribute them across a caseload with a code per parent, or let us invoice against usage. Built for legal aid offices, child support agencies, tribal programs, family services nonprofits, and firms that put every client through the same class.
- Nonprofit and legal aid pricing, and donor-funded scholarship seats at no cost where money is the barrier.
- Unused seats do not expire, and neither does a parent's access once they enroll.
- One invoice, one roster, one report.
Compliance reporting
A monthly export for the people who have to answer for outcomes: completions, median time to certificate, drop-off by module, and how many seats were scholarship funded. Yours as a spreadsheet or a signed summary for a file.
- Backed by an append-only progress ledger, so a completion affidavit is reconstructed from recorded events rather than asserted.
- Seat time counts only while the parent is actually present in the lesson, which is what makes the statutory minimum mean something.
- Aggregate reporting by default. Individual records only where a parent consented or a court ordered it.
Curriculum documentation packet
What an approval committee, a chief judge, or a provider-list administrator needs in order to say yes: the full syllabus with timings, the crosswalk from every lesson to the statutory content areas of your state, instructor qualifications, the reference list behind the content, the participant evaluation instrument, the certificate specimen, and a written description of identity checks and seat-time enforcement.
- Sent on request rather than posted publicly, because the course text is licensed intellectual property. Ask and it goes out the same business day.
- Reviewer credentials on request, so you can walk the whole course before you list us.
- We will tell you plainly which states have approved us and which have not. Our registry is public for exactly that reason.
What is live today, and what is not
We will not describe a feature as working when it is not. As of today the verification page and this request form are live. Referral dashboards, bulk seat management, and automated monthly reporting are built but not yet switched on, and they turn on with our production launch. The documentation packet exists now and we send it by email on request.
State approvals are the same story. Our state registryshows exactly where each application stands, and it says “in progress” where an approval is in progress. If you have seen a provider claim approval in all fifty states, you already know why we do it this way.
Who we are
Online Parenting Courses is operated by Kids Deserve Dads, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, EIN 82-3510748. Course enrollments are program income, and a donor-funded scholarship fund covers parents who cannot pay, which is how we answer the indigent-access requirement several states impose on their approved providers. Questions from the bench, the clerk's office, or a provider-list administrator go to info@kidsdeservedads.org or 605.389.3369 and reach a person.