About Putting Kids First Approved by Courts Nationwide
The name attorneys recommend, and courts know.
Court-Approved Parenting Classes. Accepted Nationwide.
One price with no hidden “extra” charges. Start in minutes, finish today.
The Original Online Parenting Class
Putting Kids First started in 1993, before online classes existed, as a parenting program courts sent parents to in person. When the class moved online, it kept the same purpose: help parents in a custody or divorce case put their children first, and give the court a certificate it can trust.
That head start is why the name is known. Attorneys recommend it because their clients finish it. Judges and clerks know it because it has appeared on their approved lists and in their orders for years. Approved by Courts Nationwide is not a slogan. It is what those years bought.
Online Since 2001
We registered puttingkidsfirst.org on March 1, 2000, and brought the class online in 2001, when most courts had never seen a certificate come from a website. The page below is our own Online Course page as the Internet Archive captured it on February 4, 2002: register, log in, read the lessons, pass the final test. It was already live and already taking parents under court order.
Those years are why the name is known. Judges were seeing our certificates before any other online parenting class existed, and the courts that know us today know us because of that head start.
Who We Are
We are a small company, and we like it that way. Putting Kids First was built by its founder, Craig Jones, who went to the courthouses himself, met the judges, and did the work that put this class on approved lists across the country. He still leads the work today. Geri Jones, our Executive Director, has run the program day to day for more than two decades and still answers the phone.
You will not reach a call center. When you write to us, a person who knows the class and knows the courts writes back.
What We Believe
- Children do better when both parents can work together, even after the marriage ends. Every lesson comes back to that.
- A court-ordered class should respect your time. You read at your own pace, finish when you are ready, and your certificate is issued the moment you complete the class.
- A certificate has to hold up. Every certificate we issue carries a verification code a court, attorney, or agency can check on our site in seconds.
Where the Class Is Used
Parents complete Putting Kids First for family courts in all 50 states, for child welfare agencies, and for attorneys who want their clients ready before the hearing. Our state pages show the approval and use in each state, and our county pages show the courts closest to you.