About us
At Triple P International, our mission is to strengthen families through a flexible range of positive parenting 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-judgemental approach to parenting, offering tools and strategies for establishing a secure bond with children and promoting children’s development, mental health and wellbeing.
Our approach aims to promote the sustainable wellbeing of families across the population by providing proven parenting support.
As the world leader in parenting support programs, Triple P has been chosen by many governments and organisations around the world to provide support, often free of charge, to families across cultures.
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 evidence-based 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.
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.
Triple P programs support families to:
- Improve understanding of children’s mental health and wellbeing.
- Build confidence in their parenting skills, reducing both parental and child stress and improving family function.
- Respond effectively to behavioural concerns, focusing on building capacity for self-regulation, resilience and confidence.
- Navigate children’s disabilities, including specific support for neurodivergence and developmental conditions.
- Improve children’s school readiness, involving parents and carers in developmental milestones and educational outcomes.
- Respond to children’s behaviour in positive ways, 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 parenting support.
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 a flexible range of over 25 programs designed to provide general parenting support or meet specific needs and 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.
For example, health care professionals might be interested in our program for new parents to support the transition to parenthood. Educators might like to host a seminar to support their school community, choosing from a range of topics such as building resilience. Those who work closely with families might find our individual programs helpful in engaging parents to achieve one goal at a time. Or our more intensive programs can be combined with parenting-skills programs to help those with more complex needs.
The diversity and flexibility of Triple P programs enable individuals and organisations to select the interventions best suited to their context. As well as helping families, Triple P programs address broader social and health issues, helping to break intergenerational disadvantage, reduce pressure on waitlists and demand for specialist services, improve youth mental health outcomes and create stronger communities.
Positive Early Childhood Education (PECE)
The Positive Early Childhood Education (PECE) program is an interactive, online professional learning program for the early learning and care sector. It enhances educators’ confidence to provide responsive care and rich learning opportunities to promote children’s social and emotional skills. Find out more at the PECE website.
We can help you determine the best program for you. Register your interest here.
A snapshot of our most popular 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.
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.
Contact Triple P
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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
Find out more about the ways you can train with Triple P.
PECE program
The Positive Early Childhood Education program is for early years educators and those working in early childhood education and care 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 carers tools and strategies to build strong, respectful relationships with their children through warmth and guidance.
The Triple P – Positive Parenting Program® allows each person to do the program at their own pace 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 loving relationships, set boundaries and rules calmly in ways that kids understand, and respond calmly to children’s emotions and behaviour.
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 system of evidence-based, self-directed parenting support interventions applicable to a wide range of parents and carers of children aged 0 to 16. It enables 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!