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AIP Academy

Credentials

9 certificates, from a foundation anyone can earn to an advanced practitioner credential. Each one names exactly which courses it requires.

The ladder

Pick the credential that fits your role

Foundation · Everyone

AIP Prevention Foundations Certificate

Anyone who works with, lives with, or serves children and teens.

Shows: You can recognize grooming, sextortion and trafficking patterns, and you know the safe, correct first steps and where to report.

Requires: AIP 100

Useful in roles such as: Parents and caregivers, Volunteers, Front-line employees, Students in career programs.

Practitioner · Parents & Caregivers

AIP Family Safety Responder

Parents, grandparents and caregivers who want a tested plan.

Shows: You have built and rehearsed a written family response plan and can run the first hour of a sextortion, AI-fake or hacked-account incident.

Requires: AIP 100, AIP 110, AIP 111

Useful in roles such as: Parents and caregivers, Foster and kinship caregivers.

Practitioner · Youth & Community Leaders

AIP Youth & Community Leader

Coaches, faith and club leaders, mentors, and trained teen ambassadors (with a parent’s consent).

Shows: You can set up safer practices in a youth setting, notice warning signs, respond to a disclosure, and report correctly.

Requires: AIP 100, AIP 120

Useful in roles such as: Coaches and youth-sports staff, Faith and club leaders, Mentors and tutors, Camp and after-school staff.

Practitioner · Educators & School Staff

AIP School Safety Responder

Teachers, administrators, counselors, school police and school technology staff.

Shows: You can handle a disclosure within the law and your district’s policy, and you have completed one role-specific specialty.

Requires: AIP 100, AIP 200 plus 1 of AIP 210, AIP 220, AIP 230

Useful in roles such as: Teachers and aides, Administrators, Counselors and social workers, School IT and safety staff.

Foundation · Hospitality, Gaming & Travel

AIP Hospitality Front-Line Safety Certificate

Hotel, casino, rideshare, airport, restaurant, retail and event front-line staff, and students preparing for those jobs.

Shows: You can recognize trafficking indicators in a workplace, act safely without confronting anyone, and report through the right channel.

Requires: AIP 300

Useful in roles such as: Front desk and housekeeping, Casino and floor staff, Rideshare and transport drivers, Hospitality students.

Practitioner · Hospitality, Gaming & Travel

AIP Hospitality Safety Supervisor

Supervisors, security teams, and managers.

Shows: You can run a documented, victim-centered response, brief a team, and hand off cleanly to law enforcement.

Requires: AIP 300, AIP 310

Useful in roles such as: Security officers and supervisors, Hotel and casino managers, Venue operations.

Practitioner · Healthcare & Social Services

AIP Healthcare & Social Services Responder

Clinicians, EMS, social workers, case managers and community health staff.

Shows: You can recognize indicators in clinical and field settings, ask safe private questions, document objectively, and refer and report correctly.

Requires: AIP 100, AIP 320

Useful in roles such as: Nurses and physicians, EMS and first responders, Social workers and case managers.

Advanced · Practitioners

AIP Prevention Practitioner

People who design and lead prevention work: program leads, trainers, trust-and-safety staff, advocates and journalists.

Shows: You can design, deliver and measure a prevention program, run a tabletop exercise, and write a sourced threat brief.

Requires: AIP 500, AIP 510 plus 1 of AIP 110, AIP 120, AIP 200, AIP 300, AIP 400

Useful in roles such as: Program and training leads, Trust-and-safety analysts, Advocates and nonprofit staff, Journalists covering the topic.

How to earn one

From first module to certificate

  1. Work through the required courses. Each module ends with a knowledge check that runs in your browser. Nothing is stored or sent.
  2. Score 80% or better on every module check. You can retake as often as you need.
  3. Complete each course’s capstone. It produces something real, such as a written plan or a run exercise.
  4. Email your capstone and a list of the courses you completed. Request a credential. Remove any child’s name or identifying detail first.
  5. AIP reviews the capstone against the published rubric, and issues a credential ID if it meets the standard. The program is in pilot: reviews are done by hand and may take time, and we will tell you what to expect when you submit.
  6. Your credential is valid for 24 months. Refresh by completing the current course updates.

Anyone can confirm a credential at Verify a credential.

Plain truth

What an AIP credential is, and is not

It is
  • Proof that you completed specific, published training and showed you can apply it.
  • Verifiable by ID, with no names in the public registry.
  • Built on current guidance, and reviewed at least every 24 months.
It is not
  • A license, or accreditation by any government agency, school district, gaming regulator, professional body or industry association.
  • Continuing legal education (CLE) or continuing education credit. AIP has not applied for either. If that changes we will say so here, with the approving body’s name.
  • Legal, medical or clinical advice.
  • A promise of employment or a hiring preference. Employers decide that themselves.

AIP’s goal is for a certificate to be worth something to the people who see it, so we plan to ask school career programs, employers and professional bodies to review the curriculum. Until one of them says yes in writing, we will not claim their endorsement.

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