National Facilitator Training
Bring Legislative Advocacy Training to Your Community
Train your team to facilitate NPLI’s Legislative Advocacy Curriculum locally, with the full curriculum, practical tools, and technical assistance from NPLI to help you put it into practice.
Learn It
Become familiar with the curriculum and content.
Practice It.
Experience the activities and facilitation approach.
Bring It Home.
Use the curriculum locally with NPLI support.
Learn It. Practice It. Bring It Home.
A new model for local implementation
For the past several years, the National Parent Leadership Institute has worked directly with selected communities to offer legislative advocacy training, often culminating in a day of advocacy at the state capitol.
Now, we’re expanding that model and preparing local teams to facilitate the curriculum in their own community. Through four live virtual sessions, your team will become familiar with the curriculum, experience the activities and approaches behind it, and prepare to bring the training to parents and community members in your own community.
The curriculum supports advocacy at different scales, from a few parents meeting with local legislators or policymakers to a coordinated Capitol Day-style event. Both approaches give communities practical ways to put the skills into action.
You bring the team. We’ll bring the curriculum, participant toolkit, facilitator preparation, and Technical Assistance, including support as you plan an advocacy day or other local advocacy experience.
Open beyond PLTI
This Training Is Open to Any Organization
You do not need to be a PLTI site to participate. The training is designed for organizations and community teams interested in helping parents, families, alumni, and community members better understand the legislative process and build practical skills for participating in it.
Established PLTI Sites
Build on alumni engagement and create a local pathway for continued civic learning and legislative advocacy.
Community Organizations
Add a structured legislative advocacy curriculum to your work with parents, families, and community leaders.
Networks & Partnerships
Develop a shared local approach that trained facilitators can bring to the communities you already serve.
Not a PLTI site? You’re welcome here. The facilitator training is intentionally open to organizations beyond the PLTI network.
Bring an implementation team
Your Team: 1 Coordinator + 2 Experienced Facilitators
Each participating organization registers one three-person team. That gives your organization the people it needs to move from training into local implementation.
1
Coordinator or Program Lead
Your coordinator serves as the organizational point person and helps move the curriculum from facilitator training into local implementation.
2
Experienced Facilitators
Your facilitators should already feel comfortable guiding groups, facilitating activities, creating productive learning environments, and helping people engage with unfamiliar material.
They do not need to be experts on laws, bills, legislatures, or public policy. The training helps them become familiar with the content they’ll be facilitating.
Bring the facilitation experience. We’ll help with the rest.
Four Live Virtual Sessions
Fall 2026 schedule
Participating teams should plan to attend all four sessions. Each session is two hours long. Space is limited for the fall cohort. Organizations that are interested are encouraged to submit the interest form early.
| Session | Date | Time |
|---|---|---|
First Session | Tuesday, October 27, 2026 | 7-9 pm Eastern |
Second Session | Tuesday, November 10, 2026 | 7-9 pm Eastern |
Third Session | Tuesday, November 17, 2026 | 7-9 pm Eastern |
Fourth Session | Tuesday, December 1, 2026 | 7-9 pm Eastern |
Winter & Spanish Cohorts
Dates for a winter cohort and a cohort in Spanish are being finalized. If the fall dates do not work for your team, you can still express interest and indicate that you would like information about other upcoming cohorts.
More Than Four Training Sessions
What your organization receives
The goal is replication. Your team leaves with the preparation, materials, and support to facilitate the curriculum locally and help participants put what they learn into action.
Curriculum Use
Your trained team may use NPLI’s Legislative Advocacy Curriculum through June 2028, giving your organization time to put the model into practice across two advocacy cycles.
Participant Advocacy Toolkit
Resources your team can provide to participants who complete the local training so they can continue using the skills they develop.
Facilitator Preparation
Experience with the curriculum’s activities, discussions, content, and learning approach so your facilitators are ready to lead it.
Support from NPLI
Your team will receive Technical Assistance from the NPLI team as you prepare for implementation, including guidance on putting together an advocacy day or another local advocacy experience.
Local & small-group advocacy
A few people can put the skills to work
Participants can use what they learn in smaller settings, such as meeting with a local legislator, policymaker, agency leader, or other decision-maker. The curriculum is meant to support advocacy that fits the issue, opportunity, and community.
Capitol Day-style advocacy
Bring a larger group together
Organizations can also build toward a coordinated advocacy day, including a visit to the state capitol or another organized day of meetings and public participation. NPLI Technical Assistance can help your team think through that implementation.
We’re not just handing you a curriculum and wishing you luck. NPLI stays connected as your team moves toward implementation, whether you are preparing a small-group advocacy opportunity or coordinating a larger Capitol Day-style experience.
Practical Legislative Advocacy Skills
What you’ll prepare to teach
The curriculum helps participants move from hearing about the legislative process to understanding it and practicing ways to engage with it.
From Idea to Action
Explore how an idea moves through the legislative process and where opportunities for public participation can arise
Budgets & Fiscal Notes
Use budgets, fiscal notes, and other public information to understand the financial context surrounding legislation and public programs.
Testimony
Help participants organize their experiences and information into clear testimony for legislative or public settings.
Practice & Feedback
Create opportunities to try out messages, hear feedback, respond to questions, and build confidence.
Legislative Research & Bill Tracking
Explore how an idea moves through the legislative process and where opportunities for public participation can arise
Stories + Supporting Information
Practice connecting lived experience with research, facts, data, and other information that adds context to an issue.
Advocacy Pitches
Practice communicating an issue clearly and concisely, including why it matters and what you want a decision-maker to consider.
Local Application
Prepare to adapt the curriculum to your own community context and the people your organization serves.
From Curriculum to the Capitol
Build Capacity. Put It Into Action.
NPLI has piloted this legislative advocacy work with PLTI communities, pairing structured learning and practice with real opportunities to engage decision-makers. Those experiences helped shape the model we’re now preparing organizations to lead for themselves.
Your organization knows its community, relationships, and local context. NPLI brings the curriculum, facilitator preparation, participant tools, and Technical Assistance. Together, that gives your team a foundation you can use locally and build on over time.
Train locally. Facilitate locally. Build on it locally.
A model communities can make their own
Instead of relying on NPLI to deliver the curriculum one community at a time, your organization develops the capacity to facilitate it directly. You receive permissible curriculum use through June 2028, giving your team time to put the model into practice across two advocacy cycles.
Small-group advocacy or a larger advocacy day
More than one path to advocacy
Local implementation does not have to look the same everywhere. A few parents might prepare for meetings with local legislators or policymakers, while another group may build toward a larger Capitol Day-style experience. Both approaches give participants meaningful ways to apply their skills.
One training. A local team ready to take it forward.
By the end of the facilitator training, your organization will have explored the curriculum, experienced key activities, built familiarity with the legislative content, received participant and implementation materials, and established a connection to NPLI for continued Technical Assistance, including support as you plan an advocacy day or other local advocacy experience.
Introductory training pricing
$1,200 Covers Your Full Three-Person Team
The $1,200 introductory rate covers your organization’s three-person team and the materials, curriculum use, and implementation support that continue beyond the four live sessions.
Legislative Advocacy Facilitator Training
$1,200
per three-person organization/team (1 Coordinator + 2 Facilitators)
- Curriculum and resources provided for running your own class
- 1 coordinator or program lead
- 2 experienced facilitators
- Four live virtual facilitator training sessions
- Use of the Legislative Advocacy Curriculum through June 2028
- Advocacy toolkit for participants who complete your local training
- Technical Assistance from NPLI for implementation
- Technical Assistance to help plan an advocacy day or other local advocacy experience
This is an introductory program rate for the initial rollout of the facilitator training. Pricing for future cohorts may change.
Fall cohort space is limited. If your organization is considering participating, submit the interest form early so NPLI can follow up with your team.
Ready to Bring Legislative Advocacy Training to Your Community?
Whether you’re a longtime PLTI site or an organization connecting with NPLI for the first time, bring a team of two experienced facilitators and one coordinator or program lead. We’ll provide the curriculum, participant toolkit, facilitator preparation, and technical assistance to help you put the model into practice locally. Space in the fall cohort is limited.
Quick Details
- Cost: $1,200 per 3-person team
- 4 Virtual Sessions
- Two Hours Each | 7-9 PM Eastern
- 1 Coordinator + 2 Facilitators
- Open to: PLTI sites & Other Organizations
- Space is Limited
Someone from the National Parent Leadership Institute will follow up with more details.
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The National Parent Leadership Institute
The National Parent Leadership Institute (NPLI) is an anti-racist, non-profit, nonpartisan, parent-informed democracy initiative. We embrace asset-based learning that works across diverse backgrounds, races, genders, religions, ages, sexual orientations, and other factors to increase the civic leadership of parents and family members and improve outcomes for children and families.
