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We have included here a list of parenting programmes that are:- nationally available parenting programmes that are currently being used in the Young People’s Secure Estate (under 18 years) or
- were mentioned as resource material by practitioners who told us about their work or
- have recently been developed and may be relevant to support parents in this context
Additionally, the Commissioning Toolkit of Parenting Programmes at http://www.commissioningtoolkit.org is a comprehensive, searchable database of replicable parenting programmes.
List of programmes
| Programme: | African Caribbean Fatherhood Programme |
| Organisation: | Barnardo’s |
| Description: | An accredited 10 module programme for African Caribbean fathers that can be used flexibly. |
| Contact: | Neil Solo, Project Manager, BabyFather Initiative, Barnardo’s |
| Telephone: | 020 8498 7596 |
| Email: | neil.solo@barnardos.org.uk |
| Programme: | ESCAPE and Parallel Lines |
| Organisation: | Trust for the Study of Adolescence |
| Description: | Explores areas of young people’s behaviour (10 years plus) which parents find difficult to address, such as non-school attendance and offending. The programme can be used with individual families or as a group work intervention. Also a programme to work with young people in parallel. Click here for more information |
| Contact: | TSA Publications |
| Telephone: | 01273 693311 |
| Email: | publications@tsa.uk.com |
| Programme: | Family Matters |
| Organisation: | New Bridge Foundation |
| Description: | An accredited parenting education programme specifically designed for the custodial context that can be offered to all parents, including young fathers and mothers. Click here for more information |
| Contact: | New Bridge Foundation |
| Telephone: | 020 7976 0779 |
| Email: | lesleydh01@aol.com |
| Programme: | Handling Teenage Behaviour |
| Organisation: | Future Childcare Training |
| Description: | A programme to support parents of teenagers developed by Derbyshire YOS, NCH Step-in Family Centre and Future trainers. Click here for more information |
| Contact: | Future Childcare Training |
| Telephone: | 024 7654 5500 |
| Email: | info@futurechildcaretraining.com |
| Programme: | Incredible Years Series |
| Organisation: | Incredible Years |
| Description: | The Incredible Years series includes parent education programmes aimed at reducing children's aggression and behaviour problems and increasing social competence at home and at school. For parents of children aged 2-12 years. Click here for more information |
| Contact: | Incredible Years |
| Telephone: | 001(USA) 2062857565 |
| Email: | LisaStGeorge@comcast.net |
| Programme: | Let’s Talk Parenting |
| Organisation: | Let’s Talk Parenting Service |
| Description: | Gives practical help to parents with emphasis on enhancing self-esteem. Aims to support the development of relationships in families by increasing the insight and understanding of those involved. Click here for more information |
| Contact: | Let’s Talk Parenting Service |
| Telephone: | 01740 651786 |
| Email: | joeward1@tiscali.co.uk |
| Programme: | Parenting Wisely |
| Organisation: | Family Works |
| Description: | Interactive CD Rom-based parenting programmes for parents of children of different ages including teenagers and younger children (3-9 years). Click here for more information |
| Contact: | Family Works |
| Telephone: | 001(USA) 7405942502 |
| Email: | familyworks@familyworksinc.com |
| Programme: | Strengthening Families Strengthening Communities |
| Organisation: | Race Equality Foundation |
| Description: | A 13 week inclusive parent education programme which providers are trained to deliver during a five day course. The course is accredited by Open College Network. It is suitable for parents of different ages, including teenage parents. |
| Contact: | Race Equality Foundation |
| Telephone: | 020 7619 6220 |
| Email: | leandra@racefound.org.uk |
| Programme: | Systematic Training for Effective Parenting |
| Organisation: | STEP Publishers |
| Description: | There are three STEP parent education programmes each consisting of seven sessions and addressing the parenting of children from birth to 6 years, 6-12 years (also Spanish version) and the teenage years. Click here for more information |
| Contact: | STEP Publishers |
| Telephone: | 001(USA) 8007201286 |
| Email: | Contact via website |
| Programme: | The Parenting Puzzle |
| Organisation: | Family Links |
| Description: | The Parenting Puzzle is based on the Nurturing Programme, a 10-week course that helps understand how emotions influence actions, and offers many positive, practical ways of guiding children so they learn to handle both their feelings and their behaviour. Click here for more information |
| Contact: | Family Links |
| Telephone: | 01865 401800 |
| Email: | info@familylinks.org.uk |
| Programme: | Time Out for Teenagers! |
| Organisation: | Positive Parenting |
| Description: | A parenting programme for parents of teenagers and pre-teens. Positive Parenting deliver services to parents in different settings and have also published a parenting programme for fathers, Time Out for Dads. Click here for more information |
| Contact: | Positive Parenting |
| Telephone: | 0845 6431939 |
| Email: | info@parenting.org.uk |
Tell us about other programmes that you use:
Contact Sarah Lindfield to tell us about other programmes that we could add to this list.
Telephone: 01273 647330
Email: slindfield@tsa.uk.com