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 Abecedarian Approach Australia (3a) program is a combination of teaching and learning strategies for use in early childhood settings and parenting programs to enhance children’s cognitive, emotional and communication outcomes and readiness for school.

 


Circle of Security (CoS)

The CoS program is 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

Incredible Years is a group-based social learning model program for parents, teachers and children that reduces challenging behaviours in children and increases social and emotional learning and self-control skills.

 


INFANT (INfant Feeding Active play and NuTrition)

The INFANT program 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

Learning Language and Loving is 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)

P-CMG is a group program for parents/carers and their babies/young children that supports the development of secure parent-child attachment, promotes children’s speech development and enhances families community inclusion.

 


Parents Under Pressure (PuP)

PuP is an 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.

 


PeepLTP (Peep Learning Together Programme)

PeepLTP is 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

Promoting First Relationships is a 10-week home visiting service that aims to support families to build positive connections, strengthen parent/carer confidence and increase parent/carer caregiving.

 


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

Volunteer Family Connect is a 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 Abecedarian Approach Australia (3a) program is a combination of teaching and learning strategies for use in early childhood settings and parenting programs 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)

The CoS program is 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.


Dads Tuning in to Kids

Dads Tuning in to Kids is a parenting group program for fathers or male carers of children aged 3 to 10 years old. The program fosters father-child connection.


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

DRUMBEAT is a music program focusing on exploring healthy, supportive relationships, emphasising teamwork and cooperation.


Exploring Together

Exploring Together is a 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)

The FAST program 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.


Incredible Years

Incredible Years is a group-based social learning model program for parents, teachers and children that reduces challenging behaviours in children and increases social and emotional learning and self-control skills.


Learning Language and Loving It

Learning Language and Loving is 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)

P-CMG is a group program for parents/carers and their babies/young children that supports the development of secure parent-child attachment, promotes children’s speech development and enhances families community inclusion.


Parents Under Pressure (PuP)

PuP is an 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.


PeepLTP (Peep Learning Together Programme)

PeepLTP is 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

Promoting First Relationships is a 10-week home visiting service that aims to support families to build positive connections, strengthen parent/carer confidence and increase parent/carer caregiving.


Second Step

Second Step is a universal program designed to increase students’ school success and readiness by improving peer relationships and decreasing problem behaviours. Curriculum differs according to age groups.


Signposts for Building Better Behaviour

The Signposts for Building Better Behaviour program enables 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.


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

Volunteer Family Connect is a 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)

The CoS program is 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

Cool Kids is a cognitive behaviour therapy program that teaches children and their parents how to manage anxiety disorders.


Dads Tuning in to Kids

Dads Tuning in to Kids is a parenting group program for fathers or male carers of children aged 3 to 10 years old. The program fosters father-child connection.


Daughters and Dads Active and Empowered

Daughters and Dads Active and Empowered aims to enhance the social-emotional wellbeing, sport skills and physical activity of primary school-aged girls. It also aims to strengthen the involvement fathers have with their daughters. 


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

DRUMBEAT is a music program focusing on exploring healthy, supportive relationships, emphasising teamwork and cooperation.


Exploring Together

Exploring Together is a 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.


Incredible Years

Incredible Years is a group-based social learning model program for parents, teachers and children that reduces challenging behaviours in children and increases social and emotional learning and self-control skills.


Journey of Hope

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.


Learn to be Safe with Emmy and Friends

Learn to be Safe with Emmy and Friends is a protective behaviours program that aims to improve children’s interpersonal safety skills and empower children in unsafe situations.


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)

PuP is an 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.


Seasons for Growth

Seasons for Growth is an education program that builds the resilience and wellbeing of children who have recently experienced loss due to death, family separation or migration.


Second Step

Second Step is a universal program designed to increase students’ school success and readiness by improving peer relationships and decreasing problem behaviours. Curriculum differs according to age groups.


Secret Agent Society

Secret Agent Society is a multi-media program that aims to teach children to recognise and manage their own feelings, 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

The Signposts for Building Better Behaviour program equips parents with strategies that promote positive behaviour in their children with an intellectual or developmental disability.

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.


Baby Makes 3

The Baby Makes 3 programs 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 Bringing Up Great Kids 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.


Circle of Security (CoS)

The CoS program is 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.

Dads Tuning in to Kids

Dads Tuning in to Kids is a parenting group program for fathers or male carers of children aged 3 to 10 years old. The program fosters father-child connection.


Daughters and Dads Active and Empowered

Daughters and Dads Active and Empowered aims to enhance the social-emotional wellbeing, sport skills and physical activity of primary school-aged girls. It also aims to strengthen the involvement fathers have with their daughters.


Cool Kids

Cool Kids is 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)

DRUMBEAT is 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

Exploring Together is a cognitive-behavioural therapy program designed to be used in the classroom or community settings that aims to increase the resilience and happiness of children.


Family Foundations

The Family Foundations program applies discussion-based activities, modelling, and skills practices to support parents and caregivers with babies aged 0 to 12 months to work as a cohesive, coparenting team.  


FAST (Families and Schools Together)

The FAST program 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

Healthy & Safe is a home‐based education resource tailored to the learning needs of parents with learning difficulties. It is designed to help parents with young children manage home dangers, accidents and childhood illness.


Incredible Years

Incredible Years is a group-based social learning model program for parents, teachers and children that reduces challenging behaviours in children and increases social and emotional learning and self-control skills.


INFANT (INfant Feeding Active play and NuTrition)

The INFANT program 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)

P-CMG is a group program for parents/carers and their babies/young children that supports the development of secure parent-child attachment, promotes children’s speech development and enhances families community inclusion.


Parent Effectiveness Training (PET)

PET is an educational program that 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)

PAT is a voluntary early childhood development and family support program that promotes the optimal early development, learning and health of children by supporting and engaging parents and caregivers.


Parents Under Pressure (PuP)

PuP is an 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.


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

Promoting First Relationships is a 10-week home visiting service that aims to support families to build positive connections, strengthen parent/carer confidence and increase parent/carer caregiving.


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

Secret Agent Society is a multi-media program that aims to teach children to recognise and manage their own feelings, detect other people’s emotions, develop and maintain friendships, social problems, and deal with bullying.


Signposts for Building Better Behaviour

The Signposts for Building Better Behaviour program equips parents with strategies that promote positive behaviour in their children with an intellectual or developmental disability.


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. It is designed for participating parents experiencing vulnerable circumstances with children aged 12-months to 4 years.


Through the Looking Glass

Training in Through the Looking Glass is no longer available in Australia. The program can still be delivered by CfC FPs that have previously completed facilitator training.


Triple P Positive Parenting Program

Triple P Positive Parenting Program is 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

Tuning in to Kids is 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.


Tuning in to Teens

Tuning in to Teens is a universal parenting program for parents of children aged 10+ years. It aims to increase parent-child connection by improving emotional communication in the family.


Volunteer Family Connect

Volunteer Family Connect is a 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)

WWWT is a 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.

Programs for at-risk or vulnerable families

Abecedarian Approach Australia (3a)

The Abecedarian Approach Australia (3a) program is a combination of teaching and learning strategies for use in early childhood settings and parenting programs to enhance children’s cognitive, emotional and communication outcomes and readiness for school.


Bringing Up Great Kids

The Bringing Up Great Kids 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.


Circle of Security (CoS)

The CoS program is 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)

DRUMBEAT is 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)

The FAST program 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.


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)

PAT is a voluntary early childhood development and family support program that promotes the optimal early development, learning and health of children by supporting and engaging parents and caregivers.


Parents Under Pressure (PuP)

PuP is an 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.


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

Triple P Positive Parenting Program is 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

Volunteer Family Connect is a structured social relationships intervention in the form of volunteer home visiting for families with young children (0-5 years old).

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