About us
At Triple P UK and Ireland, our mission is to strengthen families through a flexible range of programmes designed to support parents and carers of children aged 0 to 16.
Backed by four decades of ongoing research, Triple P is ranked by the United Nations as the world’s most extensively researched parenting programme. Our evidence-based programmes have proven their worth to millions of parents and carers around the world. They 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.
Based on the concept of proportionate universalism, our approach aims to promote the sustainable wellbeing of families through a public health strategy.
As the world leader in parenting support programmes, Triple P has been chosen by Governments, agencies and organisations in over 80 countries to offer support, often free of charge, to families.
We are a certified B Corp® organisation, 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 programmes – 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 been implemented in over 80 countries.
Triple P is for every family
Our flexible framework empowers families from birth through the teen years with practical, evidence-based support to strengthen relationships, enhance wellbeing, and respond confidently to a wide range of parenting situations.
Triple P programmes 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 behaviours.
- 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.
- Reduce parental conflict over parenting, including in separated families.
- 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 skills-based 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 programmes effectively.
- 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.
- Programme development: We continue to expand and enhance our programme offerings, introducing new evidence-based programmes alongside additional languages, flexible delivery options and updated content.
- Professional development workshops: We offer an expanding variety of topics for practitioners to continue their learning and expand their knowledge.
Discover our programmes
We offer a flexible range of over 25 programmes designed to provide general parenting support or meet specific needs and challenges. Our programmes 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 programme for new parents to support the transition to parenthood. School based staff 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 programmes helpful in engaging parents, or combine a parenting-skills programme with more intensive support to help those with more complex needs.
The diversity and flexibility of Triple P programmes enable individuals and organisations to select the interventions best suited to their context. As well as helping families, Triple P programmes 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) programme is an interactive, online professional learning programme 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 programme for you. Register your interest here.
A snapshot of the available programs
Our impact
Triple P is recognised by the United Nations (UN) as the world’s most robustly evidence-based parenting programmes. Triple P’s evidence base includes over 207 randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and 440 quantitative evaluation papers, spanning 40 years.
Studies show Triple P improves parents' mental health and wellbeing, reduces children's behavioural and emotional challenges, and prevents child maltreatment. These result in long-term benefits for families and communities as well as cost savings for society.
World Health Organization (WHO), in its Violence Prevention Report, named Triple P as one of only two programmes with strong evidence for preventing child maltreatment.
The Washington State Institute of Public Policy has reported estimated economic benefits of $8.87 for every dollar invested in the Triple P system, due to prevention of child abuse and neglect, out-of-home placements, and future health care costs.
The What Works Evidence Hub rates Triple P programmes as cost-effective and evidence based, improving child and parent outcomes and reducing parent conflict. It lists it as a programme 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.
Randomized Control 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, rated the programme materials as very culturally appropriate.
Meet our team
Our team is made up of dedicated professionals in Ireland, all working together to help families thrive. They bring a wealth of experience and care to their roles. Whether you have a question or want to get started, we’re here for you!
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Implement Triple P
Many practitioners and professionals have been trained to offer Triple P programmes to parents. This enables governments, organisations and practitioners to confidently offer families and communities effective, evidence-based solutions with positive, lasting outcomes.
If you would like to suggest Triple P to the families you work with, or the clients you support, please contact us.
Contact Triple P
We truly appreciate your interest in partnering with us to empower families and strengthen communities. Together, we can make a lasting difference.
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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 programme is for early years educators and those working in childcare 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, guidance and positive discipline.
The Triple P – Positive Parenting Program® allows each person to do the programme 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 address 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, and has demonstrated population level outcomes in an UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI, Galway evaluated study in Ireland.
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 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, contact us. We thank you for your interest in Triple P!