Bach Family Foundation and Trust

Our founder Dr. Elijah Bach was welcomed to Notre Dame University in Dhaka to meet with its President and the Board of Trustees to collaborate on localizing 's parent counselor program to align with Bangladesh's local culture, context, and language to train and produce licensed parent counselors across the country. We are grateful for the warm hospitality and looking forward to building a long lasting partnership.

We are honored to meet with the Ministerial Secretaries and their team at the Ministry of Population and Family Development, where we discussed specific pathways to enroll over 700,000 parent-facing government workers into Bach Institute for Parent Education and Policy ()'s Licensed Parent Counselor program to align with Indonesia's national policy priorities.

We are honored to be invited to Jatarta, Indonesia, to meet with the Ministerial Secretary and his team at the Ministry of Women Empowerment and Child Protection where we discussed specific pathways to implement our Parent Counselor program for all parents and caregivers in Indonesia to align with Indonesia's national policy priorities.

Following our founder Dr. Elijah Bach's audience with the Pope Leo XIV in Vatican last October, we were honored to be invited to Caritas Asia's headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, to meet with the Board of Directors and Regional Commissioners that represent 25 countries in their 4 sub-regions (Central Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia). We are happy to share the overwhelming support of all regional commissioners who will now explore pathways to implement our Parent counselor initiatives in all of the 25 member countries in Asia.

Our founder Dr. Elijah Bach was welcomed to University of Dhaka's Institute of Education and Research (IER) where we agreed to collaborate on localizing 's parent counselor program to align with Bangladesh's local culture, context, and language, before offering the program jointly to the general public to train and produce licensed parent counselors across the country. We are grateful for IER's warm hospitality and looking forward to building a long lasting partnership.

Following an audience with the Pope Leo XIV in Vatican last October, we are happy to be in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where our founder Dr. Elijah Bach was warmly welcomed by the Archibishop of Dhaka Catholic Archidioces, Executive Director of Caritas Bangladesh, as well as President of National Council of Churches in Bangladesh and Vice Chancellor of Notre Dame University Bangladesh. We are thankful for our partnership to offer our Parent Counselor program through all Catholic and Christian network of churches and schools across Bangladesh.

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.

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 areas of education, social, health, and economy. Please stay tuned!

We are thrilled to be back in New Delhi to officially kick off our Licensed Parent Counselor initiative with the government of India, and our dream team is ready! Led by 's South Asia regional HQ, , and for Social and Behavioral Change at the Ashoka University, we will work to create a new category of profession to serve over a billion parents and caregivers in the region.

We had the honor of meeting with the Ministre de l'Education Nationale for the Republic of Togo, as well as with the Executive Director of Instutut National des Sciences de l'Education at the Universite de Lome, arranged by the Resident Representive of UNICEF Togo and her team, our local partner in Togo and beyond in Western Africa. Our founder Dr. Elijah Bach, proposed our Parent Counselor initiative for the nation of Togo and have taken our first step in offering it to all citizens of this beautiful nation.

We had the honor of being invited to the United Nations World Summit for Social Development in Doha, Qatar, where our founder presented our Licensed Parent Counselor initiative to global participants that consist of high-level ministers, UN delegations and ambassadors, NGO and civil society executives, academics, among others, which was extremely well received. We are looking forward to working with each stakeholders in various ways to implement this policy that will transform the landscape of early childhood education/development and parenting worldwide.