PRC staff to present at international parenting congress
2 June 2023
We are very excited that five of our staff will be presenting at the inaugural International Congress on Evidence-based Parenting Support (I-CEPS) from 6-8 June, 2023.
This significant online event will be a unique chance to network and collaborate with parenting support researchers, policymakers, practitioners, service providers and consumers from around the world.
The extensive program features Jack Shonkoff, Paediatrician and Professor of Child Health and Development at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Carolyn Webster-Stratton, Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington and founder of the world-renowned Incredible Years parenting programs.
Our CEO Warren Cann will present and host a symposium on Wednesday 7 June at 11.15am AEST, exploring the potential of practice frameworks as a vehicle for realising evidence-based practice in complex community-based service settings. Warren will be joined by the CEO of Windermere, Lynette Buoy, Windermere’s Manager of Evidence, Innovation and Practice, Marija Dradgic, and Daryl Higgins, Director, Institute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University.
Raising Children Network Director Derek McCormack will be leading a panel as part of the Future Directions Symposium on Wednesday 7 June at 2.25pm AEST, which will explore future directions and innovations for improving engagement in evidence-based online parenting programs and supports. Including panellists from Monash University and contributions from a number of interviewees, the aim of the session is to generate discussion and share insights on innovations related to the theme ‘Parenting support in a digital age’.
Michelle Harrison will be co-presenting a symposium on Wednesday 7 June at 2.15pm AEST, which will examine three key relational parenting programs used in Australia – Bringing Up Great Kids, Circle of Security and Tuning in to Kids – and approaches used to measure outcomes. This session aims to assist service providers and policy makers in selecting between behaviour-focused and relational-focused parenting programs and help researchers to design and evaluate parenting programs.
Vincent Lagioia will discuss a partnership between the Parenting Research Centre and Kids First Australia to test a new coaching approach to family support practice on Wednesday 7 June at 2.15pm AEST. Coaching is premised on the idea that building the capacity of adults who care for children is the most powerful way of promoting a child’s development, wellbeing, and safety.
Catherine Wade and Michelle Harrison will be part of a presentation on interconnected national research – including our Parenting Today in Victoria study – into models of support for new parents experiencing mental health challenges. The session on Thursday 8 June at 12.30pm AEST will include an explanation of the ForWhen perinatal mental health navigation program – a first of its in kind in Australia and internationally. ForWhen is delivered by Karitane and the Australasian Association of Parenting and Child Health (AAPCH), in collaboration with the Parenting Research Centre and the University of New South Wales.
Naomi Hackworth’s research will be part of several presentations at the Congress. This includes looking at how neighbourhoods influence how parents and children interact, design of a new digital health intervention to help parents manage their children’s mental health concerns called FindWays, and looking at how our smalltalk early childhood parenting program led to positive effects in school-aged children’s ability to focus.
The Parenting Research Centre is proud to be a Platinum supporter of I-CEPS, which aims to be a catalyst for change and social impact to improve the lives and prospects of future generations.