Playsteps
| Name | Playsteps |
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| Target Audience | Parents |
| CfC Objective | Healthy Young Families Supporting Families and Parents |
| Organisation | Queen Elizabeth Centre |
| Delivery Setting | Community-based |
| Description | 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. |
| Delivered to | Parents and carers of children aged 0-4. |
| Delivered by | Family Support Workers, Maternal and Child Health Nurses, professionals working with children and families. |
| Program Structure | 9 week group program where parents are shown videos, given handouts and can participate in discussions about parenting.
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| Training | A 2 day training course is required to deliver the program. To attend, participants must:
For more information about Playsteps and Keys to Caregiving training, see: www.qec.org.au/professionals/introduction |
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| Contact | Phone: (03) 9549 2777 Email: learning@qec.org.au Website: qec.org.au/families/playsteps |
| Evaluation and effectiveness | An evaluation conducted by the Parenting Research Centre in 2007-2010 showed that participation in the program was associated with demonstrated improvements in parenting, resulting in changes in children’s emotional and social competence. Strong results were found for the parental mental health outcome measure. <www.parentingrc.org.au/94-evaluation-of-playsteps-project> |