Foundational Learning

BRIGHTPath Academy offers real-world, self-paced online courses built from our published materials. Designed to support learners of all ages, backgrounds, and life stages. These aren’t theory-based fluff. Each course is built for action, with tools you can use today.

1. Budget Like a Boss
Learn to create a working budget, manage income and expenses, build emergency savings, and take financial control.
🔹 Includes: Book + Companion Workbook
🔹 Certification Track: Yes
🔹 Available in English and Spanish (Presupuesto Como un Jefe)

2. Money Adventure: Your Guide to Financial Freedom
Explore money habits, goal setting, spending patterns, and wealth-building strategies. This is your entry point to personal finance literacy.
🔹 Companion course to the book
🔹 Great for teens, young adults, and parents

3. Working With a Financial Advisor
Understand how to work with professionals to create your financial plan. Learn to assess credentials, manage relationships, and avoid scams.

4. Financial Empowerment for Veterans & Households
Tailored for veterans, families, and underserved communities. Combines budgeting, financial mindset, and access to benefits with practical tools.

5. Strategic Empathy
Built from the workbook-style book Strategic Empathy: Navigating Leadership and Success in the Modern Workplace.
🔹 Learn how to lead people with clarity, self-awareness, and emotional intelligence
🔹 Ideal for managers, team leads, and mentors

6. Driver Onboarding: HR, Safety & Compliance
For logistics and gig workers. Covers HR best practices, workplace rights, DEI, harassment prevention, and personal branding.
🔹 Uses BrightPath HR content
🔹 Aligned with EEOC and OSHA standards

7. Built From the Inside™: Personal Healing & Transformation
A 10-part SEL series used inside facilities, reentry programs, and youth mentorship groups.
🔹 Includes: Books 1–10
🔹 Certification: Peer mentor, facilitator, or director level available
🔹 Based on real trauma-informed practice

8. Pathlight Mentorship System™
Companion to BFI. Prepares returning citizens, veterans, or graduates of SEL programs to become peer mentors.
🔹 Includes certification, onboarding guide, and leadership development modules
🔹 Aligned with DOC and SEL standards

Each BRIGHTPath Academy course includes:
✔️ Online access via Canvas
✔️ Downloadable workbooks & exercises
✔️ Final quiz and certificate of completion
✔️ Optional coaching or facilitator pathway (for eligible tracks)

New courses launching monthly.
Visit www.thebrightpathacademy.com or email info@buildingblocs.org to learn more or schedule a program overview.

The BRIGHTPath Learning Portal is officially launching in July 2025, but you don’t have to wait to start transforming your life. Through our live Canvas-based platform, individuals, families, and professionals can access high-impact, book-aligned courses right now, and get certified.

The following titles are fully authored and in production now. Each book will be paired with a BRIGHTPath Academy course, complete with coaching guides, case studies, reflection prompts, and optional certifications.

Emotional Regulation, Nervous System Reset, & Self-Understanding
Designed for adults recovering from trauma, chronic stress, or emotional burnout. A science-based path to stillness, control, and inner clarity.

Raising Emotionally Strong Kids
Equips caregivers and educators with tools for emotional coaching, conflict repair, and intergenerational healing. Aligns with CASEL’s SEL framework.

Leadership, HR Compliance, Culture, & Conflict
A vital curriculum for HR departments, team leads, and ministry leaders. Includes DEI, anti-discrimination, hiring practices, and values-based culture building.

Starting, Managing, and Scaling a Purpose-Driven Business
Covers branding, planning, funding, and resilience. Great for self-starters, veterans, side-hustlers, and nonprofit founders.

Team Building, Conflict Navigation, Communication, & Peer Coaching
Ideal for small business teams, ministries, school districts, and correctional peer programs. Based on real case studies and SEL-based models.

Strategic Empathy, Ethical Leadership, & Influence
For managers, mentors, clergy, and coaches. Teaches how to lead with emotional intelligence and create systems that build people, not just outcomes.

Each course will feature:
✔️ A printed and digital textbook
✔️ Guided online modules
✔️ Live workshops or facilitator resources
✔️ PDF toolkits and coaching prompts
✔️ Certification pathway with optional CEUs

🌐 Want early access or group licensing for your organization?
Visit www.thebrightpathacademy.com or contact us to schedule a program overview.