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Evaluation of a Programme to Help Parents of Teenagers
Source: Institute for Child Care Research, Queen’s University Belfast
Parenting teens can be tricky and confusing. One of the few rigorously-evaluated programmes to help parents tackle those challenges has demonstrated convincing evidence of its effectiveness, researchers reported. The programme — Odyssey, Parenting Your Teen — is a potential model for more countries than Northern Ireland, where…
Resource type: Research Report
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Parenting Support for Every Parent
Source: UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway
A parenting programme can have a significant impact on the risk and protective factors that shape family life, and create population-wide benefit, according to this evaluation of the Triple P Positive Parenting Programme in the Midland counties of Longford and Westmeath. The parenting programme was…
Resource type: Research Report
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Triple P: Positive Parenting Program
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
A free program in Ireland designed to promote more effective parenting is showing consistently positive changes for parents and children alike, according to findings from an independent evaluation. Triple P—the Positive Parenting Program—offers different levels of help depending on parents’ needs. Assistance ranges from tips…
Resource type: Research Report
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Parenting course 'lessens' depression
Source: Irish Times
Archways and the Incredible Years programme are Atlantic grantees via the Clondalkin Partnership. by SYLVIA THOMPSON PARENTS WERE less critical and more confident in dealing with their children after taking part in a parenting programme, a new study has found. Parents who participated in the…
Resource type: News
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Research led by NUI Maynooth proves the Power of Positive Parenting
Source: Archways / Incredible Years programme
Archways and the Incredible Years programme are Atlantic Children & Youth Programme grantees via the Clondalkin Partnership. Archways, is today (Monday, 21st Sept) launching the first set of findings from the Incredible Years BASIC parent training programme for children aged 3-6yrs. The Incredible Years (IY)…
Resource type: News
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Parenting NI Ltd
$3,630,325
Resource type: Grantee
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Prevention and Early Intervention Programme in Ireland and Northern Ireland
Source: Mathematica Policy Research
Children and youth organisations on the island of Ireland are building a strong body of prevention and early intervention practices, according to an evaluation of Atlantic's investments by Mathematica Policy Research. Meanwhile, research organisations are acquiring new expertise in evaluating children's prevention and early intervention…
Resource type: Evaluation
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The Incredible Years Ireland Study
Source: National University of Ireland Maynooth
Early childhood behavioural difficulties are increasingly prevalent and raise the risk of poorer outcomes later in life. Teachers and parents are ideally suited to address these issues but they often feel ill-equipped to do so without some guidance. Participants in the Incredible Years programme reported…
Resource type: Evaluation
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The Transformer
Source: The New York Times
by LINDA PERLSTEIN WHATEVER IT TAKES Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America By Paul Tough Illustrated. 296 pp. Houghton Mifflin. $26 When assessing the state of America's children, people speak of the achievement gap between the middle class and the poor. But really…
Resource type: News
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Impact of courses on children's behaviour felt six months on
Source: Irish Examiner
Original Source Archways and the Incredible Years programme are Atlantic grantees via the Clondalkin Partnership. By Claire O’Sullivan NEARLY six out of 10 parents who underwent a positive parenting course did not see their children’s behaviour as a problem six months later, new research has…
Resource type: News
