Positive Parenting Program (Triple P)
Triple P is a scientifically researched family support strategy designed to help parents improve their parenting skills and build positive relationships with their children and youth.
This unique program was developed by clinical psychologist Professor Matthew R. Sanders and colleagues from the School of Psychology at The University of Queensland. With over 30 years of experience with clinical trials working with families, Triple P is the foundation that Connections Community Services uses to support families, schools and the community.
Triple P is currently used in 25 countries and has been translated into 19 languages other than English. Triple P was designed to give parents the skills they need to raise confident healthy children and teenagers on their own, without the need to get help outside of their home aside from parents requiring counselling and respite services.
Triple P does not tell parents what to do and how to be parents. The program offers new and different ways to look at parenting. it is evidence-based (research) that proves Positive Parenting is effective at reducing many of the risk factors that come with misbehaviour in childhood and adolescence such as getting into trouble with the law or out- of-home placement.
After taking Triple P training (parent coaching) parents should feel confident and empowered to manage most of their child/ youth behaviour challenges on their own. Parents will notice an increase in healthy communication and improved behaviour with their child or teenager. Parents will observe that their child or teenager will thrive and interact better within their ecological system (home, school and community). Parents will feel relaxed and happy to see their child or teenager flourishing.
At Connections Community Services (CCS), our goal is to provide early prevention and intervention services to support families to remain together (family preservation). In addition to using Triple P, our foundation is deeply rooted in the following areas of practice:
- Anti-oppressive framework
- Trauma-informed care
- Relational perspectives
- Solution-focused
- Strength-based approaches
- Family-centered care approaches
- Principles from Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA)
- Ecological Systems Perspective
