Bach Family Foundation and Trust reaches landmark agreement with the Government of India
- Elijah Bach
- Feb 25
- 2 min read
We are thrilled to announce that Bach Family Foundation and Trust, Inc. has officially signed an MOU with the National Skill Development Corporation, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, India. Our Certified Parent Counselor program is now India's official national initiative, set to be rolled out across the country to create millions of jobs as "Certified Parent Coach", a new category of profession that didn't exist before, and to support billions of parents, while earning income for themselves. With our South Asia headquarters based in New Delhi, we are excited to collaborate with our local partners at The Convergence Foundation, Central Square Foundation, and Centre for Social and Behavior Change at Ashoka University, and multiple NGOs who are working in the space of supporting parents and caregivers.
This monumental milestone comes at the end of a relentless year. In just 12 months, we have:
1. Established Bach Institute for Parent Education and Policy (BIPEP), the world's first vocational institute and research think tank dedicated to supporting and empowering the global population of parents and caregivers.
2. Developed a comprehensive online Parent Counselor Certificate program (six courses with a focus on literacy, including AI and financial literacy, numeracy, social-emotional learning, health/hygiene education, and parent-teacher communication/partnership), our own learning management system, as well as the world's first AI-avatar simulation, where students can practice what they have learned each week with an AI-avatar that is trained with localized parental challenges to present various scenarios and to provide immediate feedback on their performances.
3. Established partnerships with universities and NGOs across 20 countries that have agreed localize BIPEP's curriculum to align with their country's culture, context, and language, before offering the certificate course to the population of their countries.
4. Set to enroll 1 million students in the first batch of the cohort in 2026 in at least seven countries (France, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Sierra Leone, and the United States).
We are now gearing up to produce a landmark report on the global impact of Parent Counselors on the following areas:
1. Education: Change in students' grades/test scores, attendance, and graduation rates.
2. Social: Change in the number of community/school violence.
3. Health: Change in the number of doctor visits / missed school days due to preventable illnesses.
4. Economic: Change in annual household income, unemployment rate, national GDP (savings in healthcare costs, tax contributions (property/income tax, etc.)).
To learn more about our Parent Counselor initiative, please watch this short video presentation:
