About us
At Triple P Europe, our mission is to strengthen families through a flexible range of programs designed to support parents and carers of children aged 0 to 16.
Based on four decades of ongoing research, Triple P is ranked by the United Nations as the world’s most extensively researched parenting program. Our evidence-based programs have supported parents and carers around the world. The programs take a positive, non-judgmental approach to parenting, offering tools and strategies for establishing a secure bond with children and overcoming common behavioural and emotional challenges.
Our approach aims to promote the sustainable wellbeing of families across the population by providing evidence-based parenting support.a
As the world leader in parenting support programs, Triple P has been chosen by many governments and organisations to provide support, often free of charge, to families. This includes European Union member states such as Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Sweden and more across Europe.
We are a Certified B Corporation™ meeting the highest standards of social and environmental performance, transparency and accountability. Worldwide, more than 112,700 practitioners from over 80 countries have participated in Triple P training.
Triple P – Backed by research. Proven by parents.
What is Triple P? Triple P in a nutshell.
What we do
Triple P stands for the Positive Parenting Program – an empowering support service for families at any stage of their parenting journey. Triple P’s flexible system of programs – delivered online, in person and through community services – helps parents make the most important job they will ever do that little bit easier, no matter their background, family situation or culture.
Triple P is evidence based and has delivered training in over 30 countries.
Catering for different needs
Triple P is for every family. The flexible framework addresses a wide variety of issues, from birth to the teen years, and can be accessed to address common, everyday challenges or more serious behavioural and emotional difficulties.
Triple P programs support families to:
- Improve understanding of their child’s mental health and wellbeing.
- Build confidence in their parenting skills, reducing both parental and child stress and improving family function.
- Respond to behavioural concerns, with strategies for minor tantrums through to more challenging aggression or defiance.
- Navigate their child’s disability, including specific support for neurodivergence and developmental conditions.
- Improve their child’s school readiness, involving them in their child’s developmental milestones and educational outcomes.
- Respond to their child’s behaviour in a positive way, ensuring a nurturing and safe home environment.
- Confidently handle modern parenting challenges such as reducing anxiety around climate change and dealing with social media and screen time.
- Build positive parent-child relationships that result in lifelong emotional regulation and social development.
- Overcome any stigma associated with getting support for their parenting.
Implementing Triple P
For professionals looking to bring Triple P to their community or local area, we provide hands-on training and support to help you succeed.
- Training: Our comprehensive training process includes formal accreditation, ongoing support and continually updated materials to help practitioners use our programs effectively. Specific training is also available for early childhood educators (find out more at the PECE website).
- Implementation support: Work with an Implementation Consultant or use our self-directed implementation tools to integrate Triple P into your services.
- Communication support: High quality print and digital media, for promotion of services to families and staff, are available.
- Program development: We continually offer new programs to meet the changing needs of families. We also offer more languages, diverse delivery modalities and expanded content.
- Professional development workshops: We offer a variety of topics for practitioners to continue their learning and expand their knowledge.
Discover our programs
We offer over 25 programs designed to provide general parenting support for common challenges, or to meet specific needs and tougher challenges. Our programs can be adapted to different contexts, whether online, in person, or in local communities, and are available in brief or more intensive formats.
Who can embed Triple P?
The diversity and flexibility of Triple P programs enable individuals and organisations to select the interventions best suited to their context, including:
- Health care professionals supporting new parents in the transition to parenthood.
- Teachers and school counsellors supporting parents to manage behaviour or support the home learning environment.
- Family courts supporting parents to reduce conflict.
- Local councils as part of family support services.
- Social workers supporting families to promote positive, nurturing care and overcome challenging circumstances.
- Child health and mental health centres implementing early intervention and parenting support.
- GPs supporting parents of young people awaiting a neurodevelopmental diagnosis.
A snapshot of the available programs
Our impact
Triple P has the world’s most comprehensive database of parenting research, spanning four decades.
The World Health Organisation (WHO), in its Violence Prevention Report, named Triple P as one of only two programs with strong evidence for preventing child maltreatment.
The British Medical Association has reported estimated economic benefits of £5.05 for every pound invested in the Triple P system, due to prevention of future health care costs.
The Early Intervention Foundation rates Triple P programs as cost effective and evidence based, improving child and parent outcomes and reducing parent conflict, and lists it as a program capable of preventing crime, violence and anti-social behaviour.
Triple P is backed by evidence-based research, a small selection of which includes:
- Triple P for Baby – Advancing the Application of Enhanced Baby Triple P Positive Parenting Program Through an International Collaboration.
- Stepping Stones for children with a disability – Reducing child behaviour and emotional difficulties, as well as dysfunctional parenting practices.
- Randomised Controlled Trial of Stepping Stones – Improving child behaviour and parenting outcomes in a mixed-disability group.
- Mother and Baby Unit setting – The first trial of a parenting intervention in a Mother and Baby Unit.
- Triple P in diverse communities – Parents found strategies highly useful, were very likely to use the strategies, and rated the program materials as very culturally appropriate.
Making a difference
Find out why and how Triple P helps parents around the world confidently navigate every stage of the parenting journey using evidence-based strategies.
What’s the Big Deal about Evidence-based Practice?
Parents want tools that are backed by solid research and have consistently and repeatedly been shown to make a difference.
Supports for Future and New Parents
Pictures of newborns make us smile. A social media announcement of a birth is greeted with congratulations and emojis of happiness and celebration. These moments of joy are, of course, only part of the picture.
Healthy Screen Habits – Act Early, Act Together
Concern about screentime dates back decades to worries that children were spending too much time watching television.
Implement Triple P
Discover who we are currently working with around the world, and how you can start using Triple P in your community too.
If you want to offer Triple P to families you work with, or for the population you support, please contact us.
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Support and training for professionals
We don’t just support parents – we support the professionals helping parents too, through training and professional courses.
Provider training
There are three elements to our trainer courses:
- Training days
- A competency-based accreditation process
- Implementation support for practitioners and organisations
To find out more about the ways you can train with Triple P, click here.
Positive Early Childhood Education (PECE)
The Positive Early Childhood Education program is for early years educators and those working in nursery settings. The course supports staff to build strong relationships with children and develop confidence to deal with challenging behaviours.
Frequently asked questions
Positive parenting is an approach to parenting that gives parents and caregivers tools and strategies to raise their child in an environment that is safe, loving and predictable.
The Triple P – Positive Parenting Program® allows each person to take the program at their own speed and apply the strategies most useful to them. It doesn’t instruct parents on how to raise their children, but provides them with the confidence and skills to build good relationships, set boundaries and rules calmly in ways that kids understand, and respond to challenging behaviours.
Absolutely! Triple P has been designed to be delivered as a public health initiative, typically implemented by jurisdictions, government bodies or NGOs across regions or countries.
The aim is to reach as many people as possible to have the greatest preventative impact on a community. The Triple P system can go to scale simply and cost efficiently and has been shown to work with many different cultures and ethnicities.
Yes! Several studies have shown that online access is the preferred format for parents to obtain information on parenting support.
Triple P Online is a suite of evidence-based, self-directed parenting support interventions applicable to a wide range of parents and carers of children aged 0 to 16, enabling them to access support at the time, place and learning pace they prefer.
Triple P works with practitioners, organisations and governments to put into place powerful solutions for meaningful, measurable changes in family resilience and functioning.
We can provide implementation support, training and online access. Whichever option you choose, our solutions are easily tailored to local needs and implemented to reach the largest number of families with the right support, at the lowest cost. We also provide ways to measure effectiveness, including cost effectiveness, and create sustainable services.
If you want to learn more about us and the ways we can help you support parents and families, please contact us. We thank you for your interest in Triple P!