Communities for Children Facilitating Partners evidence-based program profiles

This page lists the profiles of evidence-based programs that have a sufficient evidence base to be considered approved for use under the 50% requirement for Communities for Children Facilitating Partners. 

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Programs for infancy (0-2 years)

Abecedarian Approach Australia (3a)

The program is a combination of teaching and learning strategies for use in early childhood settings and parenting programs designed to enhance children’s cognitive, emotional and communication outcomes and readiness for school.


Circle of Security (CoS)

Parent/child psychotherapy designed to assist parents to provide their children with the emotional support needed to develop secure attachment, resilience and enhanced school readiness.


Incredible Years

Group-based social learning model program for parents, teachers and children that reduces challenging behaviors in children and increases social and emotional learning and self-control skills. Develops parenting skills and increases parents' involvement in children's school experience. Parent groups are grouped according to age: 0-12 months, 1-3 years, 3-6 years and 6-12 years.


INFANT (INfant Feeding Active play and NuTrition)

Aims to improve parents’ and caregivers’ knowledge and skills around healthy eating, active play, limiting screen time and, in turn, healthy growth from the start of life.


Learning Language and Loving It

A professional development program that equips early childhood educators/teachers with practical, interactive strategies for building the social, language and early literacy skills of preschool children.


Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)

PCIT is a cognitive behavioural intervention that aims to decrease behavioural problems, increase positive parent behaviours and improve the quality of the parent-child relationship.


Parent-Child Mother Goose (P-CMG)

A group program for parents/carers and their babies/young children. P-CMG supports the development of secure parent-child attachment, promotes children’s speech development and enhances families community inclusion through the pleasure and power of using rhymes, songs, and stories together.


Parents Under Pressure (PuP)

Individualised home-visiting, case-management program designed for families where there are multiple issues that impact on family functioning such as depression, anxiety, substance misuse, family violence, financial stress, and where there is a high risk of child maltreatment. Mindfulness techniques are used to improve parental emotional regulation. These, combined with emotional availability constructs, are used to support or enhance the carer/parent-child relationship to promote a nurturing environment and thus improve child self-regulation. The PuP program is individualised to suit the needs of each family with supporting materials to help put PuP into practice.


PeepLTP (Peep Learning Together Programme)

An adult learning program that aims to support parents to develop sensitive and responsive relationships with their babies and young children and improve the home learning environment.


Promoting First Relationships

A 10-week home visiting service that aims to support families to build positive connections, strengthen parent/carer confidence and increase parent/carer caregiving through use of strengths-based, reflective video feedback and curriculum.


Sing&Grow

Sing&Grow provides a learning and therapeutic opportunity for families through structured music-based activities which aim to support positive family relationships and build effective parenting skills.


Volunteer Family Connect

Structured social relationships intervention in the form of volunteer home visiting for families with young children (0-5 years old).

Programs for early childhood years (3-5 years)

Abecedarian Approach Australia (3a)

The program is a combination of teaching and learning strategies for use in early childhood settings and parenting programs designed to enhance children’s cognitive, emotional and communication outcomes and readiness for school.


Cool Little Kids

Cool Little Kids is an early intervention version of the Cool Kids program that aims to educate parents on how best to parent a child with anxiety. 


Circle of Security (CoS)

Parent/child psychotherapy designed to assist parents to provide their children with the emotional support needed to develop secure attachment, resilience and enhanced school readiness.


DRUMBEAT (Discovering Relationships Using Music, Beliefs, Emotions, Attitudes and Thoughts)

A music program focusing on exploring healthy, supportive relationships, emphasising teamwork and cooperation.


Exploring Together

Cognitive-behavioural therapy program designed to be used in the classroom or community settings that aims to increase the resilience and happiness of children.


FAST (Families and Schools Together)

Early intervention and prevention program that helps children succeed by empowering parents, connecting families, improving the school climate and strengthening community engagement. FAST delivery has been successful in the remotest of Indigenous communities in Australia through to schools and families in our capital cities.


Fun FRIENDS, FRIENDS for Life and My FRIENDS Youth

Fun FRIENDS (4-7), FRIENDS for Life (8-9) and My FRIENDS Youth (10-15) are structured, group based programs that teach children resilience, self–esteem and emotional skills such as coping with stress and worry, developing social skills, recognising and regulating emotions in self and others, positive thinking, problem solving and relaxation.


Incredible Years

Group-based social learning model program for parents, teachers and children that reduces challenging behaviors in children and increases social and emotional learning and self-control skills. Develops parenting skills and increases parents' involvement in children's school experience. Parent groups are grouped according to age: 0-12 months, 1-3 years, 3-6 years and 6-12 years.


Learning Language and Loving It

A professional development program that equips early childhood educators/teachers with practical, interactive strategies for building the social, language and early literacy skills of preschool children.


PALS Social Skills Program: Playing and Learning to Socialise

Training in PALS is no longer offered in Australia. The program can however be delivered by CFC FPs that have previously completed the training course. CfC FPs that have partners/staff trained in delivering PALS can continue to count the program towards their 50% requirement. 


Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)

PCIT is a cognitive behavioural intervention that aims to decrease behavioural problems, increase positive parent behaviours and improve the quality of the parent-child relationship.


Parent-Child Mother Goose (P-CMG)

A group program for parents/carers and their babies/young children. P-CMG supports the development of secure parent-child attachment, promotes children’s speech development and enhances families community inclusion through the pleasure and power of using rhymes, songs, and stories together.


Parents Under Pressure (PuP)

Individualised home-visiting, case-management program designed for families where there are multiple issues that impact on family functioning such as depression, anxiety, substance misuse, family violence, financial stress, and where there is a high risk of child maltreatment. Mindfulness techniques are used to improve parental emotional regulation. These, combined with emotional availability constructs, are used to support or enhance the carer/parent-child relationship to promote a nurturing environment and thus improve child self-regulation. The PuP program is individualised to suit the needs of each family with supporting materials to help put PuP into practice.


PeepLTP (Peep Learning Together Programme)

An adult learning program that aims to support parents to develop sensitive and responsive relationships with their babies and young children and improve the home learning environment.


Promoting First Relationships

A 10-week home visiting service that aims to support families to build positive connections, strengthen parent/carer confidence and increase parent/carer caregiving through use of strengths-based, reflective video feedback and curriculum.


Second Step

Second Step is universal program designed to increase students’ school success/ school-readiness, improve peer relationships, and decrease problem behaviours by promoting social-emotional competence and self-regulation. Curriculum differs according to age groups.


Signposts for Building Better Behaviour

Signposts for Building Better Behaviour aims to: - Enable parents to manage difficult behaviour of their children with an intellectual or developmental disability. Signposts Early School is a variation of the program for typically developing children of early primary school age. Provide parents with strategies that promote positive behaviour in their children.


Sing&Grow

Sing&Grow provides a learning and therapeutic opportunity for families through structured music-based activities which aim to support positive family relationships and build effective parenting skills.


Volunteer Family Connect

Structured social relationships intervention in the form of volunteer home visiting for families with young children (0-5 years old).

Programs for middle childhood years (6-12 years)

Circle of Security (CoS)

Parent/child psychotherapy designed to assist parents to provide their children with the emotional support needed to develop secure attachment, resilience and enhanced school readiness.


Cool Kids

A cognitive behaviour therapy program that teaches children and their parents how to manage anxiety disorders.


Daughters and Dads Active and Empowered

Aims to enhance the social-emotional wellbeing, sport skills and physical activity of primary school-aged girls and strengthen the involvement and engagement fathers have with their daughters. 


DRUMBEAT (Discovering Relationships Using Music, Beliefs, Emotions, Attitudes and Thoughts)

A music program focusing on exploring healthy, supportive relationships, emphasising teamwork and cooperation.


Exploring Together

Cognitive-behavioural therapy program designed to be used in the classroom or community settings that aims to increase the resilience and happiness of children.


Fun FRIENDS, FRIENDS for Life and My FRIENDS Youth

Fun FRIENDS (4-7), FRIENDS for Life (8-9) and My FRIENDS Youth (10-15) are structured, group based programs that teach children resilience, self–esteem and emotional skills such as coping with stress and worry, developing social skills, recognising and regulating emotions in self and others, positive thinking, problem solving and relaxation.


FAST (Families and Schools Together)

Early intervention and prevention program that helps children succeed by empowering parents, connecting families, improving the school climate and strengthening community engagement. FAST delivery has been successful in the remotest of Indigenous communities in Australia through to schools and families in our capital cities.


Incredible Years

Group-based social learning model program for parents, teachers and children that reduces challenging behaviors in children and increases social and emotional learning and self-control skills. Develops parenting skills and increases parents' involvement in children's school experience. Parent groups are grouped according to age: 0-12 months, 1-3 years, 3-6 years and 6-12 years.


Journey of Hope

Teaches children social and emotional skill building to promote self-efficacy, problem solving and positive coping so they may have the capacity to overcome current and future trauma.


Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)

PCIT is a cognitive behavioural intervention that aims to decrease behavioural problems, increase positive parent behaviours and improve the quality of the parent-child relationship.


Parents Under Pressure (PuP)

Individualised home-visiting, case-management program designed for families where there are multiple issues that impact on family functioning such as depression, anxiety, substance misuse, family violence, financial stress, and where there is a high risk of child maltreatment. Mindfulness techniques are used to improve parental emotional regulation. These, combined with emotional availability constructs, are used to support or enhance the carer/parent-child relationship to promote a nurturing environment and thus improve child self-regulation. The PuP program is individualised to suit the needs of each family with supporting materials to help put PuP into practice.


Seasons for Growth

An education program that builds the resilience and wellbeing of children who have recently experienced loss due to death, family separation or migration. Seasons for Growth aims to support young people to understand their feelings, help them develop skills for coping, restore self-confidence and educate them about the grief process. The program is underpinned by evidence about resilience, emotional competence and identity. A version of the program called Stormbirds is also available for children affected by natural disasters.


Second Step

Second Step is universal program designed to increase students’ school success/ school-readiness, improve peer relationships, and decrease problem behaviours by promoting social-emotional competence and self-regulation. Curriculum differs according to age groups.


Secret Agent Society

The multi-media program aims to teach children to recognise and manage their own feelings, cope with change, detect other people’s emotions, develop and maintain friendships, social problems, and deal with bullying.


SibWorks

SibWorks is an early-intervention in-person peer-support program for siblings (aged 8-12 years) of children with disability or chronic illness. The program aims to reduce social isolation, enhance social networks, improve relationships between family members and build children’s resilience and emotional well-being.


Signposts for Building Better Behaviour

Signposts for Building Better Behaviour aims to:

  • Enable parents to manage difficult behaviour of their children with an intellectual or developmental disability
  • Provide parents with strategies that promote positive behaviour in their children.

Signposts Early School is a variation of the program for typically developing children of early primary school age. 

Programs for parents and carers

1-2-3 Magic and Emotion Coaching

The 1-2-3 Magic and Emotion Coaching program aims to help parents and carers manage difficult child behaviour with a focus on strategies and techniques that promote positive behaviour; encouragement in developing the child's ability to manage their emotional reactions; and relationship-building.


Baby Makes 3

Assists first time parents to adapt to the demands and expectations of parenthood, and promotes equal and respectful relationships during the transition to parenthood.


Bringing Up Great Kids

The program uses mindfulness and reflection to assist parents in examining and improving their communication and exchanges with their children so that they may foster more respectful and positive interactions, which support children’s development and positive identity. Works to address the sources of parents’ negative or unhelpful attitudes.


Circle of Security (CoS)

Parent/child psychotherapy designed to assist parents to provide their children with the emotional support needed to develop secure attachment, resilience and enhanced school readiness.


Daughters and Dads Active and Empowered

Aims to enhance the social-emotional wellbeing, sport skills and physical activity of primary school-aged girls and strengthen the involvement and engagement fathers have with their daughters. 


Cool Kids

A cognitive behaviour therapy program that teaches children and their parents how to manage anxiety disorders.


DRUMBEAT (Discovering Relationships Using Music, Beliefs, Emotions, Attitudes and Thoughts)

A music program focusing on exploring healthy, supportive relationships, emphasising teamwork and cooperation.


Empowering Parents, Empowering Communities (EPEC)

EPEC is a peer-to-peer program that trains parents to deliver the ‘Being a Parent’ (BAP) course in their communities. The BAP course aims to help parents develop positive communication and parenting skills, emotional literacy, and to encourage parents to be mindful of how their words and actions can impact on children’s wellbeing.


Exploring Together

Cognitive-behavioural therapy program designed to be used in the classroom or community settings that aims to increase the resilience and happiness of children.


FAST (Families and Schools Together)

Early intervention and prevention program that helps children succeed by empowering parents, connecting families, improving the school climate and strengthening community engagement. FAST delivery has been successful in the remotest of Indigenous communities in Australia through to schools and families in our capital cities.


Healthy & Safe: An Australian Parent Education Kit

A home‐based education resource tailored to the learning needs of parents with learning difficulties. It is designed to equip parents of young children with the knowledge and skills necessary for managing home dangers, accidents and childhood illness.


Incredible Years

Group-based social learning model program for parents, teachers and children that reduces challenging behaviors in children and increases social and emotional learning and self-control skills. Develops parenting skills and increases parents' involvement in children's school experience. Parent groups are grouped according to age: 0-12 months, 1-3 years, 3-6 years and 6-12 years.


INFANT (INfant Feeding Active play and NuTrition)

Aims to improve parents’ and caregivers’ knowledge and skills around healthy eating, active play, limiting screen time and, in turn, healthy growth from the start of life.


Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)

PCIT is a cognitive behavioural intervention that aims to decrease behavioural problems, increase positive parent behaviours and improve the quality of the parent-child relationship.


Parent-Child Mother Goose (P-CMG)

A group program for parents/carers and their babies/young children. P-CMG supports the development of secure parent-child attachment, promotes children’s speech development and enhances families community inclusion through the pleasure and power of using rhymes, songs, and stories together.


Parent Effectiveness Training (PET)

This educational program aims to improve family life by changing parental child-rearing attitudes and practices, and by changing children’s behaviour – primarily through altering communication styles.


Parents as Teachers (PAT)

A Home visitation program that focuses on 5 core competencies: 

  1. Family support and parenting education
  2. Child and Family development
  3. Human diversity within family systems
  4. Health safety and nutrition
  5. Relationships between families and communities 

Parents as Teachers (PAT) is an early childhood parent education, family support and well-being, and school readiness home visiting model based on the premise that 'all children will learn, grow, and develop to realise their full potential.'


Parents Under Pressure (PuP)

Individualised home-visiting, case-management program designed for families where there are multiple issues that impact on family functioning such as depression, anxiety, substance misuse, family violence, financial stress, and where there is a high risk of child maltreatment. Mindfulness techniques are used to improve parental emotional regulation. These, combined with emotional availability constructs, are used to support or enhance the carer/parent-child relationship to promote a nurturing environment and thus improve child self-regulation. The PuP program is individualised to suit the needs of each family with supporting materials to help put PuP into practice.


Playsteps

Playsteps is a parent and child play-based program helping parents to strengthen their relationship and interactions with their child while learning practical parenting skills and building local support networks.


Promoting First Relationships

A 10-week home visiting service that aims to support families to build positive connections, strengthen parent/carer confidence and increase parent/carer caregiving through use of strengths-based, reflective video feedback and curriculum. 


SafeCare

SafeCare supports the development of positive behaviours for parents/carers who are at-risk of, or have been reported for, child abuse and neglect.


Secret Agent Society

The multi-media program aims to teach children to recognise and manage their own feelings, cope with change, detect other people’s emotions, develop and maintain friendships, social problems, and deal with bullying.


Signposts for Building Better Behaviour

Signposts for Building Better Behaviour aims to:

  • Enable parents to manage difficult behaviour of their children with an intellectual or developmental disability
  • Provide parents with strategies that promote positive behaviour in their children.

Signposts Early School is a variation of the program for typically developing children of early primary school age. 


Sing&Grow

Sing&Grow provides a learning and therapeutic opportunity for families through structured music-based activities which aim to support positive family relationships and build effective parenting skills.


smalltalk

smalltalk is a service enhancement that can be embedded within community-based supported playgroups. Designed for participating parents experiencing vulnerable circumstances with children aged 12-months to 4 years. smalltalk aims to enhance the quality and quantity of parental communication and interaction with their children, provide a stimulating environment, enhance parental self-care, strengthen parent confidence and build parental connectedness to their community.


Through the Looking Glass

Through the Looking Glass (TtLG) is a therapeutic parenting program based on attachment theory principles which aims to strengthen attachment relationships between children aged 0-5 years and their parents/carers in cases where attachment has been compromised.


Triple P Positive Parenting Program

An education program designed for a wide variety of parents and carers of children with different needs and diverse socio-economic, cultural and ethnic backgrounds.


Tuning in to Kids

A universal parenting program for parents of children aged 3 to 10 years old. It aims to promote the development of emotional competence and prevent behaviour problems in young children by improving parents’ own emotional competence and teaching them emotion coaching skills.


Tuning in to Teens

A universal parenting program for parents of children aged 10+ years. The program aims to increase parent-child connection by improving emotional communication in the family. Tuning in to Teens provides parents with a greater understanding of their teen’s emotional experiences while teaching specific skills that can assist in being supportive, empathic and staying connected with the young person. The program builds on the Tuning in to Kids program, which has been shown to have positive effects on young children.


Volunteer Family Connect

Structured social relationships intervention in the form of volunteer home visiting for families with young children (0-5 years old).


What Were We Thinking! (WWWT)

Primary universal postpartum mental health prevention and early intervention pyscho-educational program for first time parents/caregivers. WWWT aims to resource and support first-time parents by extending their knowledge and skills in managing their infant's needs. WWWT delivers baby and caregiver content, is father inclusive and helps manage adjustments that occur in the intimate-partner relationship.

Programs for at-risk or vulnerable families

Abecedarian Approach Australia (3a)

The program is a combination of teaching and learning strategies for use in early childhood settings and parenting programs designed to enhance children’s cognitive, emotional and communication outcomes and readiness for school.


Bringing Up Great Kids

The program uses mindfulness and reflection to assist parents in examining and improving their communication and exchanges with their children so that they may foster more respectful and positive interactions, which support children’s development and positive identity. Works to address the sources of parents’ negative or unhelpful attitudes.


Circle of Security (CoS)

Parent/child psychotherapy designed to assist parents to provide their children with the emotional support needed to develop secure attachment, resilience and enhanced school readiness.


DRUMBEAT (Discovering Relationships Using Music, Beliefs, Emotions, Attitudes and Thoughts)

A music program focusing on exploring healthy, supportive relationships, emphasising teamwork and cooperation.


Empowering Parents, Empowering Communities (EPEC)

EPEC is a peer-to-peer program that trains parents to deliver the ‘Being a Parent’ (BAP) course in their communities. The BAP course aims to help parents develop positive communication and parenting skills, emotional literacy, and to encourage parents to be mindful of how their words and actions can impact on children’s wellbeing.


FAST (Families and Schools Together)

Early intervention and prevention program that helps children succeed by empowering parents, connecting families, improving the school climate and strengthening community engagement. FAST delivery has been successful in the remotest of Indigenous communities in Australia through to schools and families in our capital cities.


Fun FRIENDS, FRIENDS for Life and My FRIENDS Youth

Fun FRIENDS (4-7), FRIENDS for Life (8-9) and My FRIENDS Youth (10-15) are structured, group based programs that teach children resilience, self–esteem and emotional skills such as coping with stress and worry, developing social skills, recognising and regulating emotions in self and others, positive thinking, problem solving and relaxation.


Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)

PCIT is a cognitive behavioural intervention that aims to decrease behavioural problems, increase positive parent behaviours and improve the quality of the parent-child relationship.


Parents as Teachers (PAT)

A Home visitation program that focuses on 5 core competencies: 

  1. Family support and parenting education
  2. Child and Family development
  3. Human diversity within family systems
  4. Health safety and nutrition
  5. Relationships between families and communities 

Parents as Teachers (PAT) is an early childhood parent education, family support and well-being, and school readiness home visiting model based on the premise that 'all children will learn, grow, and develop to realise their full potential.'


Parents Under Pressure (PuP)

Individualised home-visiting, case-management program designed for families where there are multiple issues that impact on family functioning such as depression, anxiety, substance misuse, family violence, financial stress, and where there is a high risk of child maltreatment. Mindfulness techniques are used to improve parental emotional regulation. These, combined with emotional availability constructs, are used to support or enhance the carer/parent-child relationship to promote a nurturing environment and thus improve child self-regulation. The PuP program is individualised to suit the needs of each family with supporting materials to help put PuP into practice.


SafeCare

SafeCare supports the development of positive behaviours for parents/carers who are at-risk of, or have been reported for, child abuse and neglect.


Sing&Grow

Sing&Grow provides a learning and therapeutic opportunity for families through structured music-based activities which aim to support positive family relationships and build effective parenting skills.


Triple P Positive Parenting Program

An education program designed for a wide variety of parents and carers of children with different needs and diverse socio-economic, cultural and ethnic backgrounds.


Volunteer Family Connect

Structured social relationships intervention in the form of volunteer home visiting for families with young children (0-5 years old).

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