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Projects
High Risk Infants
High Risk Infants is a parenting skills development practice model for practitioners working with high risk infants and their families. No comparable resource exists for practitioners in Australia.
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ABCD Project
The program is designed for parents who have children between the ages of around 12-14. It aims to provide parents with information, skills and strategies for developing and maintaining trusting, positive and accepting relationships with their young adolescents. The program encourages parents to allow their children to develop their independence within safe limits, and thus minimise the chances of their adolescent children engaging in potentially high-risk activities, such as drug misuse.
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Development and Implementation of Parenting Supports for Parents with a Disability
The Centre obtained a grant in 2001 from the Australian Government Department of Family and Community Services (Victorian State office) to implement a project titled the Development and Implementation of Systems of Supports for Parents with a Disability. This project was completed in March 2004 and the final report has been submitted to the funding body. A copy of the Executive Summary of this final report can be downloaded from our website.
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C-Frame
C-Frame is an innovative professional tool that aims to provide a systematic guide to the development of parenting skills in parents of young children (0-3 years).
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Exploring Together
The Exploring Together Program for primary school children is a proven, effective group program. The program comprises separate concurrent groups for the children and one for their parents, followed by a combined parent-child interaction group. The research project aimed to measure the effectiveness of the child component and the parent component when conducted as stand-alone programs. These components have been named Confident Kids and Together Parenting.
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Positive Parenting of Toddlers: A Primary Care Initiative
The Centre completed a project evaluating the effectiveness of a parenting program for parents of toddlers, within a primary care setting. To read an Executive Summary of the report click here.
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Out of School Hours and Vacation Care Staff-Parent Partnership Project
In consultation with the Department of Human Services and relevant community stakeholders, the Centre developed resources and training to support staff in Out of School Hours and Vacation Care services. The project was aimed at enhancing parent-staff relationships, especially for families who are vulnerable to a range of pressures on their parenting.
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Parent Support Toolkit for Alcohol and Other Drug Workers
The primary goal of drug and alcohol workers is to help clients stabilise, reduce or cease their drug use, and to address underlying personal and social problems. To do this effectively, workers must recognise the central role that parenting plays in the lives of their clients. Parenting, by its very nature, is at once rewarding and stressful. Clients who are under pressure in their parenting (e.g. dealing with child behavioural problems) are at greater risk of dropping out of treatment or of relapsing. However, engaging parents in a positive conversation about their parenting role and their children represents a relatively new idea for most drug and alcohol workers.
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ABCD Website Development Project
In partnership with Uniting Care Moreland Hall, the Parenting Research Centre was responsible for the development of a broad range of online program resources, inlcuding information sheets on various topics. These resources support the introduction and dissemination of the ABCD Parenting Young Adolescents Program as it is rolled out across the state.
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Rural Signposts Program
The Rural Signposts Program is a collaborative project between RMIT University, the Parenting Research Centre and the Department of Human Services. Funding has been made available by a linkage grant from the Australian Research Council.
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Scientific papers in preparation
An important feature of our work is the dissemination of information about the various projects we undertake and their outcomes. One way that we do this is through the writing and submission of articles to scientific journals. The Parenting Research Centre is currently engaged in the production of six scientific papers for publication.
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ABCD: Parenting Young Adolescents Program Efficacy Project
The ABCD: Parenting Young Adolescents Efficacy project is a randomised controlled trial of the ABCD Program to assess and evaluate its success at achieving the goals of the program.
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Refugee families: parenting for strength, resilience and wellbeing
Parents who have come to Australia as refugees have often experienced extreme adversity that is likely to affect their ability to parent effectively. Against such odds, these parents often demonstrate strength and resilience in their parenting role. This project will examine parenting resilience by identifying the features of families who show strengths in parenting after forced migration. It will also examine how such strengths might operate to decrease risk. This project is the first phase of a five-stage program of research. The ultimate aim is to design, assess and disseminate a program for parents that can be used to build and boost strengths in all families experiencing adversity.
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Healthy Start: A national strategy for children of parents with learning difficulties
Healthy Start is a world first national strategy that aims to equip professionals with the skills and resources needed to support parents with learning difficulties to raise their young children.
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Signposts Statewide
Signposts for Building Better Behaviour is a program designed to help parents of children with developmental delay or intellectual disabilities. It provides parents with positive strategies for preventing and managing difficult behaviour in children aged 3-15 years.
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Evaluation of the Queen Elizabeth Centre Residential Program
The Parenting Research Centre is conducting a study to evaluate the Queen Elizabeth Centre five-day residential program. The program provides intensive parenting education and support for parents of children between the ages of 0-3 years.
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Step by Step Baby Care DVD
Step by Step Baby Care is a DVD for parents who have a learning difficulty. This 30-minute resource provides clear, easy-to-follow steps of key child care skills that practitioners can use for early parenting education for parents with learning difficulties.
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Parent Wellbeing
The Parent Wellbeing project aims to investigate how fatigue affects parenting, and the impact of fatigue on parental stress. This information will guide the development of an intervention model to help parents experiencing fatigue.
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AusParenting in Schools
AusParenting in Schools is a school-based parenting and family information and support prevention strategy for primary schools developed by the Parenting Research Centre. It aims to promote the wellbeing and resilience of children by helping schools to strengthen family-school partnerships, encourage family involvement in their children’s education and provide parenting information and resources to all families in the school community.
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ABCD Program Trial in Somali Community
Parents of adolescents in Victoria's Somali community can now take part in an ABCD: Parenting Young Adolescents program in their own language. Extensive consultations with community leaders, service providers, parents and young people have identified issues, expectations and parenting practices that Somali families would like to see in a parenting program.
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Choose Health
Almost 25% of Australian school-aged children are now considered overweight or obese. A research collaboration between PRC and RMIT School of Medical Sciences has made significant inroads into adolescent health issues, with their Choose Health research program.
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Evidence Framework
Families benefit most when they get information and support that is based on reliable and expert knowledge. PRC has been working on a framework that will help providers choose parenting programs with a strong evidence base. If the advice and support offered to parents is backed up by research, a service provider can be sure that families are receiving the best information available.
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Evaluation of the Queen Elizabeth Centre PlaySteps Program
The Parenting Research Centre is conducting a study to evaluate the Queen Elizabeth Centre play program PlaySteps and its effectiveness in increasing positive outcomes for parents and their children.
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Looking into Lunchboxes
A research project that examines the parent, child and parenting factors related to children’s lunchboxes.
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Helping Kids to Eat
Parents are the best role models for setting up their children’s attitudes to food, eating and nutrition. Children tend to copy the habits and attitudes of their parents, and their eating habits are influenced mainly by their family.
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