Results: 139 Programmes

• Big Brothers Big Sisters
  
  

  Big Brothers Big Sisters was developed based on the core assumption that a supportive and enduring friendship will develop and reinforce the positive development of a young person. This programme is aimed at young people aged 10-18 years who have experienced social or economic disadvantage, such as having poor social skills, being shy or withdrawn, having low self-esteem or living in poverty.

  Evidence Rating: 3+
  Cost Rating:
  Delivery Model: Individual
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preadolescents, Adolescents
  Main setting: Community centre
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Parents Plus Special Needs Programme (PPSN)
  
  

  Parents Plus Special Needs Programme (PPSN) is parenting programme for parents who are raising an older child or adolescent with a mild, moderate or severe intellectual disability, and who may also have an additional diagnosis, such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or a physical disability. The programme is designed specifically to be delivered via disability and other community family support services that work with children and young adults with an intellectual disability.

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Groups: Preadolescents, Adolescents
  Main settings: Community centre, Children's centre or early-years setting, In-patient health setting, Out-patient health setting
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Coping Power
  
  

  Coping Power aims to promote social cognitive processes, emotion regulation and effective parenting practices in order to protect against externalizing behaviour problems, aggressive behaviour, and substance misuse. The target population includes children who are identified as aggressive or disrupted. 

  Evidence Rating: 3+
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preadolescents, Adolescents
  Main settings: Community centre, Out-patient health setting, Primary school, Secondary school
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Early Pathways
  
  

  The Early Pathways programme is designed to improve the wellbeing of children with externalising behavioural problems and/or experience of trauma by supporting parents to develop trauma-informed parenting skills and strengthening the parent-child relationship through child-led play.

  Evidence Rating: 2+
  Cost Rating: 3
  Delivery Models: Individual, Home visiting
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Groups: Infants, Toddlers, Preschool
  Main settings: Children's centre or early-years setting, Home
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Triple P for Baby - Preterm Infants
  
  

  The programme aims to support the healthy development of pre-term infants (<32 weeks of gestational age) by increasing parents’ competence and confidence in raising their child. It intends to do this by delivering sessions which aim to enhance parents’ knowledge and skills in building a strong bond with their baby, promoting infant development, providing adaptable strategies for their infant (crying, settling, sleeping), partner communication and parental coping skills. By improving parents’ confidence and competence, the programme aims to increase sensitive and responsive care of the child in the early years, reducing the risk of child maltreatment and enhancing children’s mental health and wellbeing.

  Evidence Rating: 2+
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Models: Individual, Group, Home visiting
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Group: Infants
  Main settings: Community centre, Children's centre or early-years setting, In-patient health setting, Out-patient health setting, Home
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Theraplay
  
  

  Theraplay aims to support the development of healthy attachments between the caregiver and child through practitioner-led activities. These activities guide parents and children to create playful and caring child-adult interactions. Through supporting the development of healthy attachments, Theraplay aims to improve children’s mental health and well-being, including improving internalising behaviours. Theraplay can be delivered to all children, particularly including children with additional developmental needs or those that have experienced separations and loss e.g. neurodiverse children, adopted and fostered children, refugee children and those who have experienced bereavement or divorce in the family. 

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating: NA
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Group: Primary school
  Main settings: Children's centre or early-years setting, Primary school
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• SafeCare Parent Child Interaction
  
  

  SafeCare Parent Child Interaction (PCI) addresses risk factors associated with neglect and physical abuse by targeting positive parenting behaviours. Providers work with caregivers to strengthen their skills in structuring daily activities for their children, providing engaging and stimulating activities, increasing positive interactions, and preventing challenging child behaviour. 

  Evidence Rating: 2+
  Cost Rating: 3
  Delivery Model: Home visiting
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Group: Preschool
  Main setting: Home
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Triple P Seminars
  
  

  Triple P Seminars is a universal programme targeting parents interested in participating in parent education and for those who have minor concerns about their child’s behaviour or development.

  Evidence Rating: 2
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Promotion-plus
  Classification: Universal
  Age Groups: Primary school, Infants, Toddlers, Preschool, Antenatal, Perinatal
  Main settings: Community centre, Children's centre or early-years setting, Primary school, Secondary school, Home
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Tuning in to Kids
  
  
  Evidence Rating: 2+ (mixed evidence)
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Models: Individual, Group
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Groups: Primary school, Toddlers, Preschool
  Main settings: Community centre, Children's centre or early-years setting, Primary school
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Minding the Baby
  
  

  Minding the Baby (MTB) is a home-based interdisciplinary
  parenting intervention. Nurse practitioners and social workers work together to
  deliver weekly sessions to young first-time mothers.
  Practitioners aim to promote sensitive caregiving and improve child-infant
  attachment through developing the mother’s ability to reflect on her own and
  her child’s mental state, and to be more reflective when interacting with the
  child.

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating:
  Delivery Model: Home visiting
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Group: Perinatal
  Main setting: Home
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Incredible Years - Attentive Parenting Programme
  
  
  Evidence Rating: 2
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preschool
  Main settings: Community centre, Children's centre or early-years setting, Out-patient health setting
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Early Start Denver Model
  
  

  ESDM is a naturalistic, play-based intervention, centred on teaching learning through
  social interaction. It is based on developmental psychological theories about
  how children typically learn and develop, especially how learning occurs within
  the context of social relationships by engaging in joint interactions in a shared
  activity, and learning to attend to important aspects of the environment needed
  for learning (e.g. in a routine such as playing ‘peekaboo’). The programme
  integrates several approaches within therapy for autistic children, most
  significantly teaching techniques from Applied Behavioural Analysis: for
  instance, ‘shaping’ uses small steps to teach a bigger skill, ’prompting’
  provides cues to help a child learn a skill, and ‘fading’ reduces the number of
  cues over time. Its overall goal is “to decrease the symptoms of autism that impair children’s ability to learn from everyday experiences and interactions”.

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating: 5
  Delivery Model: Individual
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Groups: Toddlers, Preschool
  Main settings: Children's centre or early-years setting, Out-patient health setting, Home
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Zippy's Friends
  
  

  The programme is designed to promote the mental health and emotional wellbeing of all young children by increasing their repertoire of coping skills and by stimulating varied and flexible ways of coping with problems in day-to-day life.

  Evidence Rating: 2+
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preschool
  Main setting: Primary school
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Fostering Healthy Futures for Preteens
  
  

  The
  programme employs a cognitive behavioural approach, with a heavy focus on
  teaching children social skills. The programme  consists of two components. 

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating: 5
  Delivery Models: Individual, Group, Home visiting
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Group: Preadolescents
  Main settings: Community centre, Secondary school, Home
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Keep Safe
  
  

  Keep Safe is delivered before middle school entry and consists of six caregiver management group training sessions for caregivers and six skill-building group sessions for young people. The programme is delivered over three weeks.

  Evidence Rating: 3+
  Cost Rating:
  Delivery Models: Individual, Group
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Groups: Preadolescents, Adolescents
  Main setting: Secondary school
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Prolonged Exposure Therapy-Adolescent
  
  
  Evidence Rating: 3+
  Cost Rating:
  Delivery Model: Individual
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Group: Adolescents
  Main settings: Community centre, Out-patient health setting
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Green Dot
  
  Evidence Rating: 2+
  Cost Rating:
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Group: Adolescents
  Main setting: Secondary school
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• MindOut
  
  

  MindOut aims to improve young people’s social and emotional skills (such as self-esteem, coping, empathy, communication) in order to improve a range of mental health outcomes in the longer-term. It is aimed at adolescents (between the ages of 15 and 18), delivered by teachers at secondary school settings. The programme takes an interactive approach and promotes active learning (e.g., discussion, games, group work, scenarios).  This programme also uses video clips throughout to engage students in the weekly topics. At the end of each session there is a ‘Practice at Home’ activity. These activities are used to encourage students to further practise the skills they have learned outside of the classroom. 

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Group: Adolescents
  Main setting: Secondary school
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Preparing for Life
  
  

  • PFL was designed to prepare children for school by equipping parents with the skills needed to encourage child development from pregnancy onwards. This programme is underpinned by various psychological theories, including:  the theory of human attachment, socio-ecological theory of development, and social-learning theory. 

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating: 5
  Delivery Models: Individual, Group, Home visiting
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Groups: Infants, Toddlers, Preschool, Antenatal, Perinatal
  Main settings: Community centre, Home
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Family Talk
  
  Evidence Rating: 3+
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Models: Individual, Group
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preadolescents, Adolescents
  Main settings: Children's centre or early-years setting, Out-patient health setting
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Fear-Less Triple P
  
  

  • FLTP aims to provide parents with psychoeducation about anxiety and how it works, (in terms of both being able to coach their children in cognitive behavioural anxiety management strategies and to respond to their children’s anxiety), thereby targeting parent-related risk factors (e.g., over-protection, excessive reassurance, and ‘rescuing’ behaviours), providing effective cognitive behavioural coping strategies for their child’s anxiety. 

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Models: Individual, Group
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preadolescents, Adolescents
  Main settings: Community centre, In-patient health setting, Out-patient health setting, Primary school
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Changing Lives Initiative
  
  

  CLI aims to improve parents’ understanding of ADHD and reduce ADHD symptoms and emotional/conduct problems in children. It is aimed at children between the ages of three and seven who are demonstrating behaviours that may be consistent with an ADHD diagnosis. The programme is delivered over 26 weeks and includes: information and awareness workshops for parents and professionals; screening for families; and an ADHD-focused Incredible Years Parent Training programme. 

  Evidence Rating: 2
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preschool
  Main settings: Community centre, Children's centre or early-years setting
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• EasyPeasy
  
  

  Parents are able to register to the EasyPeasy app for free and can be connected to local cohorts (e.g. a Local Authority area, school, or nursery). The app offers personalised guidance and activity ideas to parents based on their individual profiles. A practitioner can provide support alongside the self-directed programme both through recommending content to parents via the app and through reinforcing activities and approaches with children in professional settings. The programme supports parents to create and share their own parenting strategies and experiences via the EasyPeasy app providing a valuable opportunity for peer-to-peer support. 

  Evidence Rating: 2+ (mixed evidence)
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Models: Group, Online or app
  Classifications: Targeted selective, Universal
  Age Groups: Primary school, Toddlers, Preschool
  Main setting: Children's centre or early-years setting
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• 
  
  

  GenerationPMTO refers to a set of parent training interventions developed over fifty years, originating with the theoretical work, basic research, and intervention development of Gerald Patterson and colleagues at Oregon Social Learning Center.

  Evidence Rating: 4
  Cost Rating: NA
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classifications: Targeted selective, Targeted indicated
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preadolescents, Adolescents, Preschool
  Main setting: Out-patient health setting
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Multisystemic Therapy for Problem Sexual Behaviour
  
  

  MST-PSB therapists work closely with the family and others (such as members of the community and the young person’s school), using a variety of intervention strategies, to prevent further sexual abuse and improve the family’s functioning.

  Evidence Rating: 4
  Cost Rating: 5
  Delivery Model: Individual
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Groups: Preadolescents, Adolescents
  Main settings: Community centre, Secondary school, Home
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Nuffield Early Language Intervention (20 weeks)
  
  

  The programme is targeted at children who show weakness in their oral language skills and are, therefore, at risk of experiencing difficulty in education.

  Evidence Rating: 3+
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Models: Individual, Group
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Group: Primary school
  Main setting: Primary school
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Level 4 Group Triple P
  
  

  Groups of up to 12 parents attend sessions over eight weeks delivered by a single trained and supervised clinical psychologist. These sessions include five two-hour group meetings, as well as three individual telephone consultations lasting 15 to 30 minutes.

  Evidence Rating: 3+
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Groups: Primary school, Infants, Toddlers, Preschool
  Main settings: Children's centre or early-years setting, Out-patient health setting
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• The Good Behaviour Game
  
  

  Each game lasts between 10 and 45 minutes. It is a behaviour management strategy that is designed to encourage prosocial behaviour and reduce disruptive behaviour. Teachers initiate GBG by dividing children into small teams that are balanced for gender and child temperament. Teams are rewarded with points for good behaviour, according to basic classroom rules which are reviewed in class. Short games are played several times per week.

  Evidence Rating: 3+ (mixed evidence)
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Group: Primary school
  Main setting: Primary school
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• 4Rs2Ss
  
  

  4Rs2Ss is comprised of 16 sessions and it is delivered by 2 practitioners in a multiple family group format to families with children between 7 and 11 years old who are diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder or conduct disorder. The intervention is focused on 4 Rs (Rules, Relationships, Respectful Communication, Responsibilities) and the 2 Ss (Stress and Support) that are expected to mediate caregiver stress, child behavioral difficulties and family functioning.

  Evidence Rating: 2
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Group: Primary school
  Main settings: Community centre, Children's centre or early-years setting, In-patient health setting, Out-patient health setting, Primary school
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• e-Family Foundations
  
  

  The programme is delivered in eight sessions of 1 hours’ duration each, over a period of 4-8 weeks, and involves online self-study covering prenatal and postnatal modules. 

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Online or app
  Classification: Universal
  Age Groups: Infants, Antenatal, Perinatal
  Main setting: Home
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Family Check-up for Children
  
  

  The intervention has two phases. The first is a brief, three-session programme that involves three one-hour sessions: interview, assessment and feedback.

  Evidence Rating: 3+
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Model: Individual
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Group: Toddlers
  Main setting: Home
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Incredible Years Preschool BASIC + ADVANCE Parent Training Curriculum
  
  

  This Guidebook page describes Incredible Years ADVANCE, when delivered as an add-on to the Preschool BASIC programme (which has its own standalone Guidebook entry here).

  Evidence Rating: 3+
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preschool
  Main settings: Community centre, Children's centre or early-years setting, Out-patient health setting, Primary school
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Incredible Years School Age BASIC + ADVANCE Parent Training Curriculum
  
  

  This Guidebook page describes Incredible Years ADVANCE, when delivered as an add-on to the School Age BASIC programme (which has its own standalone Guidebook entry here).

  Evidence Rating: 2
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preadolescents
  Main settings: Community centre, Children's centre or early-years setting, Out-patient health setting, Primary school
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Learning Together
  
  

  This programme uses a whole-school approach and is delivered by teachers with input from students and other school staff members.

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Models: Individual, Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Groups: Preadolescents, Adolescents
  Main setting: Secondary school
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• The Solihull Approach (Understanding Your Child's Behaviour)
  
  

  Parents attend 10 weekly two-hour sessions for groups of 12 parents. Parents identify personal goals and the strategies that will help meet them, and reflect on their child’s behaviour and their relationship with their child. 

  Evidence Rating: 2
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Groups: Infants, Toddlers, Preschool
  Main settings: Children's centre or early-years setting, Out-patient health setting, Primary school
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• New Beginnings Programme for Divorced and Separating Families
  
  

  Programme activities include group discussion, skills demonstration videos, role plays, review of use of skills, troubleshooting difficulties, and assignment of home practice. Through these activities parents learn how the skills are linked to children’s adjustment outcomes and how to use them effectively.

  Evidence Rating: 4
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preadolescents, Adolescents, Preschool
  Main setting: Out-patient health setting
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Olweus Bullying Prevention Programme
  
  

  The OBPP addresses the problem of bullying at four levels: school-wide, classroom, individual, and community.  School-level components include establishing a Bullying Prevention Coordinating Committee, which participates in a two-day training to build capacity for programme implementation.  Classroom-level components include defining and enforcing rules against bullying, as well as holding class meetings focused on bullying prevention, peer relations, and pro-social behaviors.  Additionally, there are several individual-level components for dealing with individual bullying incidents. The OBPP encourages staff to intervene when bullying is witnessed, suspected, or reported, and provides training so all staff are well prepared to intervene, follow up, and communicate with parents. On-the-spot and follow-up interventions provide staff with actions to take when they witness bullying first-hand and when bullying is reported or suspected but not observed.  Broader community-level components are designed to develop community support for the OBPP so students receive consistent anti-bullying messages in all areas of their lives.

  Evidence Rating: 3+
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Models: Individual, Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preadolescents, Adolescents
  Main settings: Primary school, Secondary school
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Switch-on
  
  

  The target population of the programme can include those who are SEN or for whom English is not their first language. The programme is currently run in both primary schools at secondary schools up to the end of Key Stage 3, additionally the programme is also run in Special Educational Schools.

  Evidence Rating: 3+ (mixed evidence)
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Individual
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Group: Preadolescents
  Main settings: Primary school, Secondary school
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Becoming A Man
  
  

  The programme aims to help adolescents and young men develop skills surrounding a positive identity, resilience, and a sense of belonging through group sessions led by a ‘pro-social’ male counsellor.

  Evidence Rating: 4
  Cost Rating: 5
  Delivery Models: Individual, Group
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Groups: Preadolescents, Adolescents
  Main setting: Secondary school
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Building Blocks and TRIAD
  
  

  TRIAD (Technology-enhanced, Research-based, Instruction, Assessment and professional Development) is a scale-up model that supports the Building Blocks curriculum via professional development for teachers (including a Web application that supports teaching based on learning trajectories), classroom materials and classroom coaching.

  Evidence Rating: 3+
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Group: Preschool
  Main setting: Children's centre or early-years setting
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Children’s University
  
  

  Children’s University works with learning providers and activity leaders and encourages participation in learning and ‘social action’ activities such as after-school clubs, visits to universities and museums, and volunteering in the community.

  Evidence Rating: 2
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Group: Primary school
  Main setting: Primary school
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• MindUP 3-7
  
  

  Using an educational neuroscience approach, the programme teaches children strategies to focus attention, regulate emotions, and engage in prosocial behaviours in order to foster positive academic, social, and emotional well-being. This is supported by promoting a school-wide mindful culture to support wellbeing and academic outcomes.

  Evidence Rating: 2
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preschool
  Main settings: Children's centre or early-years setting, Primary school
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• MindUP 8-11
  
  

  Using an educational neuroscience approach, the programme teaches children strategies to focus attention, regulate emotions, and engage in prosocial behaviours in order to foster positive academic, social, and emotional well-being. This is supported by promoting a school-wide mindful culture to support wellbeing and academic outcomes.

  Evidence Rating: 2
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Group: Primary school
  Main setting: Primary school
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Nuffield Early Language Intervention (30 weeks)
  
  

  The programme is targeted at children who show weakness in their oral language skills and are, therefore, at risk of experiencing difficulty in education.

  Evidence Rating: 3+
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Models: Individual, Group
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preschool
  Main settings: Children's centre or early-years setting, Primary school
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Families and Schools Together
  
  

  FAST is a universal programme, and so is open to all families and participation is strictly voluntary. FAST’s target population is children between the ages of three and eight years old.

  Evidence Rating: 2+
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Group: Primary school
  Main setting: Primary school
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Rock and Water
  
  

  The programme cultivates mental and social skills by starting with physical action and experience. The emphasis on kinaesthetic learning patterns are practised through a series of exercises and games, some of which are martial arts based, and evoke a physical and psychological response.

  Evidence Rating: 2+
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preadolescents, Adolescents
  Main settings: Primary school, Secondary school
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Early Talk Boost
  
  

  Children taking part in the programme have all been identified by early years practitioners as having delayed language (developing in the same way as typically developing children, though slower). The children do not have an identified special educational need. This may include children with English as an additional language.

  Evidence Rating: 2
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Group: Preschool
  Main setting: Children's centre or early-years setting
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Talk Boost Key Stage 1
  
  

  Children taking part in the programme have all been identified by teachers as having delayed language (developing in the same way as typically developing children, though slower). The children do not have an identified special educational need. This may include children with English as an additional language. 

  Evidence Rating: 2
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preschool
  Main setting: Primary school
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Doodle Den
  
  

  Each Doodle Den group offers 15 spaces to children who would benefit from additional literacy support or group work. The children’s class teachers or support workers make referrals to the programme using a standard referral form. Parents can also make referrals to the programme.

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Group: Primary school
  Main setting: Primary school
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Circle of Security Parenting
  
  

  Circle of Security Parenting is based on attachment theory and aims at helping parents reflect on their own attachment experiences and thus reduce their negative mental attributions to the child’s normal attachment-seeking behaviours. Parents are then better able to provide a secure base for their distressed child and their exploratory behaviours, which, in turn, improves their child’s attachment.

  Evidence Rating: 2+
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preschool
  Main setting: Children's centre or early-years setting
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• ASSIST
  
  

  The programme involves using a questionnaire to identify influential students within schools, and then recruiting them into the programme and delivering interactive skills and information training. These influential peer supporters then disseminate information positively and effectively to empower their friendship groups not to take up smoking. 

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Group: Preadolescents
  Main setting: Secondary school
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Resilience Triple P
  
  

  The intervention is designed to address known modifiable risk and protective factors for children bullied at school. The programme is designed to be delivered in groups by a trained practitioner.

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating: NA
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preadolescents
  Main setting: Out-patient health setting
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Second Step Early Learning
  
  

  SSEL is designed to promote young children’s readiness skills for school and life. It is delivered by teachers in lessons which are interactive and developmentally appropriate. 

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Group: Preschool
  Main setting: Children's centre or early-years setting
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Level 5 Pathways Triple P
  
  

  The programme can either be completed in a group, or on an individual basis, and is delivered over the course of five sessions of 1–2 hours duration. In these sessions, parents learn how to develop appropriate expectations of their child’s behaviour, manage their own behaviour, and manage unwanted child behaviour. 

  Evidence Rating: 3+
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Models: Individual, Group
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preadolescents, Toddlers, Preschool
  Main setting: Home
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Pyramid Club Secondary
  
  

  Pyramid clubs run once a week for 10 weeks. The clubs are run by trained leaders, usually as an after-school activity, but sometimes during the school day. Activities at the club are structured around circle time, art and craft, games and food.

  Evidence Rating: 2
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Groups: Preadolescents, Adolescents
  Main setting: Secondary school
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Second Step Elementary
  
  

  Second Step is based on cognitive behaviour therapy and the content units are aligned with socio-emotional core competencies identified by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL).

  Evidence Rating: 2
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Group: Primary school
  Main setting: Primary school
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Parents Plus Parenting when Separated
  
  

  It is a six-week course that highlights practical steps parents can take to help their children cope and thrive as well as coping successfully themselves. Topics of the sessions include:

  Evidence Rating: 2+
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preadolescents, Adolescents, Preschool
  Main settings: Children's centre or early-years setting, Out-patient health setting
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Functional Family Therapy
  
  

  The young person is typically referred into FFT through the youth justice system at the time of a conviction. The young person and his or her parents then attend between eight to 30 weekly sessions (depending on need) to learn strategies for improving family functioning and addressing the young person’s behaviour.

  Evidence Rating: 3+ (mixed evidence)
  Cost Rating: 3
  Delivery Model: Individual
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Groups: Preadolescents, Adolescents
  Main setting: Children's centre or early-years setting
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Auditory Verbal Therapy
  
  

  AV therapy focuses on the development of spoken language through listening. Through play-based therapy sessions, parents/carers are coached and empowered with the tools to develop their child’s listening, talking, thinking and social skills. Children are enrolled on the programme at less than five years of age to maximise the critical period in which 85% of the neural pathways for listening and spoken language are formed.

  Evidence Rating: 2+
  Cost Rating: 4
  Delivery Model: Individual
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Groups: Infants, Toddlers, Preschool
  Main setting: Out-patient health setting
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• PATHS Elementary curriculum
  
  

  This overall curriculum is designed to be used by educators and counsellors in a multi-year, universal prevention model. It is delivered in preschool and school settings, and was primarily developed as a universal programme.

  Evidence Rating: 3+
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preadolescents
  Main setting: Primary school
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Strengthening Families Programme 10-14
  
  

  Strengthening Families Programme 10–14 is based on the biopsychosocial model and other empirically based family risk and protective factor models. As such, the programme targets the enhancements of family protective processes and aims to reduce family risk. 

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Groups: Preadolescents, Adolescents
  Main setting: Secondary school
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Reading Recovery
  
  

  The intervention is targeted – pupils with the lowest literacy attainment scores and showing evidence of a lack of skills, knowledge and experience that means they cannot benefit from group and class teaching are selected for Reading Recovery after three to six terms in school.

  Evidence Rating: 3+
  Cost Rating: 3
  Delivery Model: Individual
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Group: Primary school
  Main setting: Primary school
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Keeping Foster and Kin Parents Supported and Trained
  
  

  Foster carers attend 16 weekly sessions where they learn practical methods for developing a positive relationship with the children in their care and managing difficult child behaviour.

  Evidence Rating: 2
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Group: Primary school
  Main setting: Community centre
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• ParentChild+
  
  

  The ParentChild+ model is based on twice-weekly home visits by trained home visitors (Early Learning Specialists). By delivering in the family home, ParentChild+ is able to reach families who are reluctant to access other services. The curriculum is designed on two cycles: each cycle involves a minimum of 23 weeks of visits (46 visits), so every family will receive at least 92 home visits over the course of the programme.

  Evidence Rating: 3+
  Cost Rating: 4
  Delivery Model: Home visiting
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Group: Toddlers
  Main setting: Home
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Multidimensional Family Therapy
  
  

  MDFT is an integrated and flexible multi-component programme.  Families work with a qualified MDFT therapist to develop problem-solving skills for dealing with issues that are occurring at the level of the adolescent, parent, family and community.  It includes sessions focused on the youth, as well as sessions focused on the parents, and sessions directed towards the family overall.  In addition, a community-focused component is available. 

  Evidence Rating: 4
  Cost Rating: 4
  Delivery Model: Individual
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Group: Adolescents
  Main settings: Out-patient health setting, Secondary school, Home
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Positive Action
  
  

  Sessions for children are taught by curriculum, covering 6 core topics – self-concept, positive actions for body and mind, positive actions for getting along with others, positive actions managing yourself, positive actions for improving yourself continuously, and positive actions for being honest with yourself and others.

  Evidence Rating: 3+
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Group: Primary school
  Main setting: Primary school
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect
  
  

  MST-CAN therapists provide the family with tailored individual and family support and therapy over a six- to nine-month period with the aim of helping parents learn how to parent their child in a way that is not abusive or neglectful. MST-CAN has initial evidence of reducing parents’ maltreating behaviour and out-of-home placements.

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating: 5
  Delivery Model: Individual
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preadolescents, Adolescents
  Main setting: Out-patient health setting
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Primary Care Stepping Stones Triple P
  
  

  Primary Care Stepping Stones Triple P is one mode of implementation of the Stepping Stones programmes. It is a targeted parent training intervention conducted in an individual format. It is for families where parents are seeking information about a specific and discrete parenting or child behaviour issue. It is classified as a Level 3 Triple P programme.

  Evidence Rating: 2
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Model: Individual
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preschool
  Main setting: Out-patient health setting
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Parents Plus Adolescent Programme
  
  

  Parents attend approximately eight group sessions where they learn effective methods for communicating with, and disciplining their teenager. The programme involves reviewing DVD parenting and communication clips and group discussion, amongst other activities, and aims to improve positive family relationships and improve child behaviour.  

  Evidence Rating: 2+
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Groups: Preadolescents, Adolescents
  Main setting: Secondary school
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Parents Plus Children’s Programme
  
  

  The programme is designed for delivery in both specialist clinical settings such as child mental health services, and in frontline community and primary care community settings where the emphasis is largely preventative. 

  Evidence Rating: 2+
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Group: Primary school
  Main settings: Out-patient health setting, Primary school
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Level 4 Standard Teen Triple P
  
  

  The programme is indicated for parents who are concerned about their teenager’s development and behaviour. As part of the programme, parents attend 10 (1-hour) face-to-face sessions, where they learn practical strategies for how to manage their child’s problematic behaviour, promote healthy development, and improve the quality of the parent-child relationship.  
   

  Evidence Rating: 2
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Model: Individual
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Groups: Preadolescents, Adolescents
  Main settings: Community centre, Out-patient health setting
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Treatment Foster Care Oregon Adolescent
  
  

  These young people are in foster placements or residential placements, and are displaying delinquent behaviour. Young people are placed with a ‘treatment foster family’ trained in the TFCO-A model, for a period that typically lasts 9-12 months.

  Evidence Rating: 3+
  Cost Rating: 5
  Delivery Model: Individual
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Groups: Preadolescents, Adolescents
  Main settings: Community centre, Secondary school, Home, Sixth-form or FE college
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Treatment Foster Care Oregon Prevention
  
  

  Children are placed with a ‘treatment foster family’ trained in the TFCO-P model, for a period that typically lasts 9-12 months. Targeted children have complex needs, and may have already experienced a number of placement disruptions. Children may present with a wide range of behavioural difficulties, which are likely to be impacting on a number of areas of life such as their relationships with adults and peers and their capacity to manage preschool or school environments.

  Evidence Rating: 2+
  Cost Rating: 5
  Delivery Model: Individual
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Group: Preschool
  Main settings: Children's centre or early-years setting, Primary school, Home
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Selected (Seminars) Stepping Stones Triple P
  
  

  Selected (Seminars) Stepping Stones Triple P is a low-intensity parenting support and education programme conducted in a seminar format. It is classified as a Level 2 Triple P programme. It is for parents who are interested in general information about promoting their child’s development. It is aimed at a diverse range of parents seeking support for a specific child behavioural or emotional problem or developmental issue, which is of mild to moderate severity.

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preschool
  Main settings: Community centre, Children's centre or early-years setting, Primary school
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Level 4 Group Teen Triple P
  
  

  The programme is delivered by a single practitioner, over the course of eight weeks. Parents participate in five (2-hour) group sessions (of up to 12 parents each), as well as three (15-30-minute) individual telephone consultations. In these sessions, parents learn practical strategies for how to manage their child’s problematic behaviour and improve the quality of the parent-child relationship. 

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Groups: Preadolescents, Adolescents
  Main setting: Community centre
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Talk About Alcohol
  
  

  Teachers teach young people about the harmful effects of alcohol and provide them with strategies for refraining from alcohol use.

  Evidence Rating: 2
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Groups: Preadolescents, Adolescents
  Main setting: Secondary school
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Triple P Family Transitions
  
  

  The intervention is a parenting programme designed to prevent adverse outcomes for children following parental divorce and can be delivered individually or with a group of parents.

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preadolescents, Adolescents, Toddlers, Preschool
  Main setting: Community centre
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Enhanced Triple P
  
  

  The programme aims to achieve positive outcomes for both parents and children. With regards to parents, Enhanced Triple P aims to: (1) increase parents’ competence in managing common behaviour problems and developmental issues; (2) reduce parents’ use of coercive and punitive methods of disciplining children; (3) improve parents’ personal coping skills and reduce stress; (4) improve parents’ communication about parenting issues and help parents support one another in their parenting role; and (5) develop parents’ independent problem-solving skills.

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Model: Individual
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Groups: Toddlers, Preschool
  Main setting: Out-patient health setting
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Level 4 Standard Triple P
  
  

  Parents attend 10 one-to-one weekly sessions with an individual therapist lasting approximately one hour. The sessions are provided by a practitioner trained and accredited in Triple P. Practitioners also receive ongoing supervision.

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Model: Individual
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Groups: Primary school, Infants, Toddlers, Preschool
  Main settings: Community centre, Out-patient health setting
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Watch, Wait and Wonder
  
  

  The programme is delivered by infant mental health specialist over a maximum of 18 weekly sessions, with a minimum of eight sessions and average of 14 sessions.

  Evidence Rating: 2+
  Cost Rating: NA
  Delivery Model: Individual
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Groups: Infants, Toddlers
  Main setting: Out-patient health setting
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Families and Schools Together Preschool
  
  

  Parents and children attend eight weekly sessions delivered by teams made up of representatives from the community, including previous group members alongside professionals. Weekly meetings include a shared meal, 15-minute play session, family communication activities and parent discussion from which parents learn how to manage their stress and their child’s behaviour.

  Evidence Rating: 2
  Cost Rating: NA
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Group: Preschool
  Main setting: Children's centre or early-years setting
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Level 3 Triple P Discussion Groups
  
  

  Parents can attend one to four small group sessions lasting approximately two hours, facilitated by a trained and accredited Triple P practitioner. The discussion groups are designed to provide an overview of the positive-parenting principles, covering topics involving common child-rearing issues, including dealing with disobedience, managing fighting and aggression, developing good bedtime routines, and shopping with children.

  Evidence Rating: 3+
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Groups: Primary school, Toddlers, Preschool
  Main settings: Community centre, Children's centre or early-years setting, Out-patient health setting, Primary school
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Pyramid Club Primary
  
  

  Pyramid clubs run once a week for 10 weeks. The clubs are run by trained leaders, usually as an after school activity, but sometimes during the school day. Activities at the club are structured around circle time, art and craft, games, and food.

  Evidence Rating: 2+
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Group: Primary school
  Main setting: Primary school
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Pyramid Club Transition
  
  

  Pyramid clubs run once a week for 10 weeks. The clubs are run by trained leaders, usually as an after-school activity, but sometimes during the school day. Activities at the club are structured around circle time, art and craft, games and food.

  Evidence Rating: 2+
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preadolescents
  Main setting: Primary school
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Toddler-Parent Psychotherapy
  
  

  Specifically, the programme aims to prevent or shift an insecure to a secure attachment, as measured by Ainsworth’s Strange Situation. Mothers identified as being depressed, anxious, traumatised or at risk of maltreating their child attend weekly sessions with their infant (approximately 20-months old at the beginning of the programme). The sessions are delivered by practitioners with a Masters (or higher) qualification in psychology or social work.

  Evidence Rating: 2+
  Cost Rating: NA
  Delivery Model: Individual
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Group: Toddlers
  Main setting: Children's centre or early-years setting
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• All Stars (Core and Core with Plus)
  
  

  The programme is typically delivered by a class teacher during the school day.

  Evidence Rating: 2
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preadolescents, Adolescents
  Main setting: Secondary school
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Schoolchildren and their Families
  
  

  This intervention is based on the same programme model as Parents as Partners/Supporting Father Involvement.

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating: NA
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Group: Preschool
  Main setting: Out-patient health setting
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Lions Quest Skills for Adolescence
  
  

  Lions Quest SFA is a universal programme delivered to all children in the classroom setting, by trained teachers.  Note that in the UK, the programme is now delivered by youth work teams. Contents of the programme are taught using interactive training methods such as role play, group work, group discussion and self-reflection in journals or workbooks.  

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating: NA
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Group: Preadolescents
  Main setting: Secondary school
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• PATHS Preschool/Kindergarten curriculum
  
  

  This overall curriculum is designed to be used by educators and counsellors in a multi-year, universal prevention model. It is delivered in preschool and school settings, and was primarily developed as a universal programme. 

  Evidence Rating: 3+
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preschool
  Main setting: Children's centre or early-years setting
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Penn Resilience Programme (UK implementation in primary school)
  
  

  The programme is based on Albert Ellis’s cognitive behavioural model. The PRP (UK implementation) is a universal programme delivered in the school setting. It is designed to build young people’s resilience and promote realistic thinking and adaptive coping. Students are taught skills and coping strategies which are designed to contribute towards a number of resilience competencies, such as emotional intelligence and flexible and accurate thinking. Participants also learn techniques for positive social behaviour, including assertiveness and negotiation. This version of the programme is delivered to primary schoolchildren.

  Evidence Rating: 2
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Group: Primary school
  Main setting: Primary school
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Nurture Groups
  
  

  It is a targeted programme, intended for primary school children who have difficulties coping in mainstream classes and may be at risk of underachievement. 

  Evidence Rating: 2+
  Cost Rating: 4
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Group: Primary school
  Main setting: Primary school
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Roots of Empathy
  
  

  The programme consists of 27 sessions delivered by a trained instructor.

  Evidence Rating: 2+
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preadolescents
  Main setting: Primary school
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Journey of Hope (Primary)
  
  

  It was originally developed in the USA for children who have experienced a natural disaster, but has also been used to help children who have undergone other forms of adversity.

  Evidence Rating: 2
  Cost Rating: NA
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Group: Primary school
  Main settings: Primary school, Secondary school
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• FRIENDS for Life (health-led)
  
  

  The programme is based on cognitive behavioural therapy and positive psychology.

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preadolescents
  Main setting: Primary school
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Fun FRIENDS
  
  

  The programme is based on cognitive behavioural therapy and positive psychology.

  Evidence Rating: 2
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preschool
  Main setting: Primary school
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Hitkashrut
  
  

  It is delivered in 14 sessions (2.5 hours’ duration each) by Hitkashrut facilitators (trained psychologists) to small groups of parent couples.

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Group: Preschool
  Main setting: Children's centre or early-years setting
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• FRIENDS for Youth
  
  

  The programme is delivered in schools, and is based on cognitive behavioural therapy and positive psychology.

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Groups: Preadolescents, Adolescents
  Main setting: Secondary school
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Reach Out and Read
  
  

  The programme is delivered individually to parents and their children by clinicians, including paediatricians, nurse practitioners and primary care physicians, at each of 10 routine health checkups. Practitioners talk with families about the importance of reading aloud and engaging with their young children as an integral part of the checkup. They show the parents how to look at books with their children and encourage them to read together at home and build routines around books. The child is given a new developmentally appropriate book to take home and keep. The aim of the programme is to both to improve the child’s language development and to encourage parent-child bonding through reading aloud that has both cognitive and social-emotional outcomes.

  Evidence Rating: 2+
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Model: Individual
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Groups: Infants, Toddlers, Preschool
  Main setting: Out-patient health setting
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Child-Parent Psychotherapy
  
  

  Specifically, CPP aims to improve children’s representations of their relationship with their parent and reduce maternal and child symptoms of psychopathology.

  Evidence Rating: 3+
  Cost Rating: NA
  Delivery Model: Individual
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Group: Preschool
  Main settings: Out-patient health setting, Home
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Parents Plus Early Years
  
  

  Parents attend between eight and 10 weekly sessions, where they learn positive parenting strategies and effective discipline.

  Evidence Rating: 2+
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Groups: Toddlers, Preschool
  Main setting: Out-patient health setting
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Learning Together Programme - Foundation PEEP 3s level
  
  

  The programme consists of five age-specific curricula delivered by PEEP-trained practitioners for 33 weeks during school term time. Each curriculum teaches parents age-specific skills for supporting their children’s early learning and social and emotional development.

  Evidence Rating: 2+
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Group: Preschool
  Main setting: Children's centre or early-years setting
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Nobody Slips Through the Net
  
  

  Visits start postpartum and end at the child’s first birthday. The frequency of visits varies according to the needs of the family.

  Evidence Rating: 2+
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Model: Home visiting
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Group: Infants
  Main setting: Home
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• ParentCorps
  
  

  It aims to help parents support their child’s social, emotional and self-regulatory skills in order to encourage healthy development and school success.

  Evidence Rating: 3+
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Group: Preschool
  Main setting: Children's centre or early-years setting
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Mellow Toddlers
  
  

  Parents attend 14 weekly sessions (five hours’ duration each), and are also visited in their homes before the programme to introduce parents to the programme and videotape their interaction with their child for use in future sessions.

  Evidence Rating: 2
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Group: Toddlers
  Main setting: Children's centre or early-years setting
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• The Lidcombe Programme
  
  

  The programme is delivered by qualified speech and language therapists, trained to use the manualised Lidcombe protocol. It is delivered in two stages that are determined by the child’s progress with a typical period of treatment lasting between six and 12 months.

  Evidence Rating: 2+
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Model: Individual
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Group: Preschool
  Main setting: Out-patient health setting
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Helping the Noncompliant Child
  
  

  The parent and child attend between five and 12 individual sessions where they learn how to manage unwanted child behaviour.

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating: 3
  Delivery Model: Individual
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Group: Preschool
  Main setting: Out-patient health setting
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Circle of Security (Group)
  
  

  It is delivered by masters-qualified (or higher) psychologists to groups of six parents who attend 20 90-minute group sessions. The sessions make use of an individualised treatment plan developed for each parent-child dyad on the basis of their interaction during Ainsworth’s Strange Situation (or the MacArthur Preschool Strange Situation) and the mother’s responses to the Circle of Security Interview (COSI). These assessments are used to identify a ‘linchpin’ issue (ie a set of problematic attachment behaviours), and strategies are developed to help parents reflect on their behaviours through the use of video-feedback guidance used in the 20 group sessions.

  Evidence Rating: 2
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Groups: Toddlers, Preschool
  Main setting: Children's centre or early-years setting
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Dare to be You
  
  

  Families meet for 10 to 12 weekly sessions over three or four months for two hours of string-activity workshops plus a family meal.

  Evidence Rating: 2+
  Cost Rating: NA
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Groups: Toddlers, Preschool
  Main setting: Children's centre or early-years setting
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Empowering Parents, Empowering Communities
  
  

  Parents attend eight weekly two-hour sessions facilitated by pairs of trained and supervised peer facilitators. During these sessions, parents learn strategies for improving the quality of their interactions with their child, reducing negative child behaviour and increasing their efficacy and confidence in parenting. The sessions involve group discussions, demonstrations, role play and homework assignments.

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Groups: Toddlers, Preschool
  Main settings: Community centre, Children's centre or early-years setting, Primary school, Secondary school
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Child First
  
  

  The Child First model aims to bridge universal, targeted and specialist/intensive services to provide a tailored package of support to meet the unique needs of each family. Child First is delivered by two practitioners: one who connects families to community-based services as part of their family-driven plan and a qualified psychologist who provides home-visiting support.

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating: 5
  Delivery Model: Home visiting
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Groups: Infants, Toddlers
  Main setting: Home
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Parents as First Teachers
  
  

  The aim is to develop family resilience and promote positive parenting behaviours that will persist after the family’s engagement in the programme has ended.

  Evidence Rating: 3+
  Cost Rating: 4
  Delivery Model: Home visiting
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Groups: Infants, Toddlers
  Main setting: Home
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Incredible Years School Age Basic
  
  

  The programme is appropriate for children who have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), conduct disorder (CD), or difficulties with peer relationships.

  Evidence Rating: 3+
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Group: Primary school
  Main settings: Community centre, Out-patient health setting, Primary school
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• HENRY
  
  

  The programme is delivered over eight weekly 2.5-hour sessions. It focuses on parents as the key agents of change for young children. Practitioners use motivational interviewing, family partnership model, and strengths-based and solution-focused support.

  Evidence Rating: 2
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Groups: Infants, Toddlers, Preschool
  Main setting: Children's centre or early-years setting
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Planet Munch (prevention)
  
  

  Planet Munch consists of weekly group sessions delivered over 24 weeks which incorporate arts and crafts, music and active play into educational workshops to teach children and adults about physical activity, diet and nutrition. There are opportunities to apply and consolidate this knowledge by engaging in cooking and exercise sessions and portion size activities. Learning about healthy dietary and activity patterns in an engaging environment aims to engender sustained behaviour change in the participants such that families go on to lead healthier lifestyles. This, in turn, reduces the prevalence of obesity in preschool children.

  Evidence Rating: 2+
  Cost Rating: NA
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Groups: Toddlers, Preschool
  Main setting: Children's centre or early-years setting
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Group Lifestyle Triple P
  
  

  It helps parents to develop effective strategies for managing their child’s weight by introducing gradual permanent changes in their family’s lifestyle. During the group sessions, brief didactic presentations are alternated with group discussion, DVD and live demonstrations of parenting skills, rehearsal of skills using role-plays and peer modelling, and small-group problem-solving exercises.

  Evidence Rating: 2
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Group: Primary school
  Main settings: Community centre, Out-patient health setting, Primary school
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• 5 Pillars of Parenting (4–11 Years)
  
  

  The programme is delivered in eight weekly sessions by a lead and co-practitioner, to groups of 10–14 parents. In these sessions, parents learn how to communicate more effectively with their child, set appropriate boundaries, encourage positive child behaviour, manage negative behaviour, and improve the parent–child relationship. 

  Evidence Rating: 2
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preschool
  Main settings: Community centre, Children's centre or early-years setting, Primary school
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Advanced LifeSkills Training
  
  

  Advanced LifeSkills is a universal programme for all children and young people between the ages of 11 and 14.

  Evidence Rating: 3+
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Groups: Preadolescents, Adolescents
  Main setting: Secondary school
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Incredible Years Child Training (Dinosaur School)
  
  

  The programme teaches children self-regulation and problem-solving skills in small groups with developmentally-appropriate materials. Parents and teachers are updated on session goals and are asked to help reinforce target behaviours. 

  Evidence Rating: 3+
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Group: Preschool
  Main setting: Out-patient health setting
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management
  
  

  The programme aims to improve teacher competencies in supporting children in the classroom, and developing children’s social, emotional and problem-solving skills. Incredible Years group leaders work with teachers to develop specific skills include proactive teacher strategies around behaviour management.

  Evidence Rating: 3+
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preschool
  Main setting: Primary school
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Incredible Years Toddler
  
  

  Parents attend 14 weekly group sessions where they learn strategies for responding sensitively to their child and discouraging unwanted behaviour. Two facilitators (QCF-Level 7/8) lead parents in weekly two-hour group discussions of mediated video vignettes, problem-solving exercises and structured practise activities addressing parents’ personal goals.

  Evidence Rating: 2+
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Group: Toddlers
  Main setting: Out-patient health setting
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Raising Early Achievement in Literacy
  
  

  The programme is a long-duration (five group sessions and 10 home visits over 12 or 18 months) literacy programme designed for families with children aged between three-and-a-half and five years living in disadvantaged communities.

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating: 3
  Delivery Model: Home visiting
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Group: Preschool
  Main setting: Home
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Standard Stepping Stones Triple P
  
  

  It is designed as a one-to-one 10-session intervention, delivered over 10 consecutive weeks. The intervention begins with a thorough assessment of parent-child interaction. Through a range of learning methods, the intervention provides parents with comprehensive support in managing their child’s behaviour across settings. Parents set goals, practise strategies, complete an activity workbook and undertake homework tasks.

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Model: Individual
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preschool
  Main settings: Out-patient health setting, Home
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Triple P Online
  
  

  Parents are given access to a website which enables them to work through modules sequentially. It is the equivalent of Level 4 Standard Triple P, which is the face-to-face version of the programme. The online programme is designed to reach parents who prefer to complete a parenting programme online because, for example, they are they are too busy, hesitant or unable to access a programme in-person. A practitioner can provide support alongside the self-directed online programme. It includes 8 modules which focus on positive parenting principles and supporting parents to integrate and generalise parenting strategies through parenting plans.

  Evidence Rating: 3+
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Online or app
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Groups: Primary school, Toddlers, Preschool
  Main setting: Home
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Group Stepping Stones Triple P
  
  

  It is delivered to groups of parents or caregivers with children who have mild to moderate level challenging behaviours. It is classified as a ‘Level 4’ Triple P programme. Parents learn skills and strategies to encourage their child’s social and communication skills, emotional self-regulation, independence and problem-solving ability. Practitioners use a range of learning methods with parents, including behavioural rehearsal to teach skills, guided participation to discuss assessment findings, active skills training methods to facilitate the acquisition of new parenting routines and generalisation-enhancement strategies to promote parental autonomy. Practitioners provide parents with constructive feedback on their implementation of the strategies. Parents also complete an activity workbook and undertake homework tasks.

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preschool
  Main settings: Community centre, Primary school
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• .b
  
  

  .b is designed to introduce knowledge and skills to young people in order that they can support their own mental health and wellbeing. The course combines focusing on key areas of the brain and how they relate to everyday experiences, and some key mindfulness practices they can draw upon as they navigate the inevitable ups and downs of life.

  Evidence Rating: 3+
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Groups: Preadolescents, Adolescents
  Main settings: Primary school, Secondary school, Sixth-form or FE college
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Blues Programme
  
  

  The intervention consists of six weekly one hour long group sessions that are cofacilitated by a Young Persons Practitioner and a Young Persons Support Worker.

  Evidence Rating: 4+
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Group: Adolescents
  Main setting: Secondary school
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Let's Play in Tandem
  
  

  The programme runs for 12 months, and is typically delivered through Sure Start Children’s Centres.

  Evidence Rating: 3
  Cost Rating: 3
  Delivery Model: Home visiting
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Group: Preschool
  Main setting: Home
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters
  
  

  HIPPY helps parents prepare their child for school by improving the home-literacy environment, increasing the quality of parent-child verbal interaction and teaching parents specific skills for scaffolding their child’s learning. HIPPY is delivered by para-professionals trained and supervised in the HIPPY model.                      

  Evidence Rating: 2+
  Cost Rating: 3
  Delivery Model: Home visiting
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Group: Preschool
  Main setting: Home
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• The New Forest Parenting Programme
  
  

  NFPP takes place in the family’s home through eight weekly visits. During these visits, parents are made aware of symptoms and signs of ADHD and the ways in which they may affect their child’s behaviour and their relationship with their child. Parents also learn strategies for managing their child’s behaviour and attention difficulties.

  Evidence Rating: 3+
  Cost Rating: 3
  Delivery Model: Individual
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Group: Preschool
  Main setting: Home
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Incredible Years Preschool
  
  

  Parents attend 18 to 20 weekly group sessions where they learn strategies for interacting positively with their child and discouraging unwanted behaviour. Two facilitators (QCF-7/8) lead parents in weekly two-hour group discussions of mediated video vignettes, problem-solving exercises and structured practice activities addressing parents’ personal goals.

  Evidence Rating: 4+
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Group: Preschool
  Main settings: Community centre, Children's centre or early-years setting, Out-patient health setting
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Parents Forever
  
  

  The Parents Forever programme focuses on addressing parental wellbeing, the coparenting relationship and the parent-child relationship, as a mechanism by which to improve child and family outcomes post-separation. 

  Evidence Rating: 2
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preadolescents, Adolescents, Infants, Toddlers, Preschool
  Main setting: Community centre
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Infant-Parent Psychotherapy
  
  

  Specifically, IPP aims to prevent insecure attachment or to shift an insecure to a secure attachment, as measured by Ainsworth’s Strange Situation. Mothers identified as being depressed, anxious, traumatised or at risk of maltreating their child attend weekly sessions with their infant (< six months) for a period of 12 months or longer.

  Evidence Rating: 3+
  Cost Rating: NA
  Delivery Model: Individual
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Group: Infants
  Main setting: Home
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Family Nurse Partnership
  
  

  The programme is delivered by highly trained and supervised nurses or midwives.

  Evidence Rating: 4+
  Cost Rating: 5
  Delivery Model: Home visiting
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Group: Perinatal
  Main setting: Home
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Family Foundations
  
  

  The programme is delivered by male and female co-facilitators with a QCF-level 6 in a helping profession. Parents attend five weekly sessions where they learn strategies for enhancing their communication, conflict resolution and the sharing of childcare duties. Couples return for four more weekly sessions, two to six months after the baby is born, to learn strategies about how to communicate effectively as parents and support their child’s development.

  Evidence Rating: 4
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Universal
  Age Group: Perinatal
  Main setting: Out-patient health setting
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Play and Learning Strategies
  
  

  The programme is delivered by trained PALS facilitators through 14 weekly sessions lasting 90 minutes each. During these sessions, facilitators coach mothers on how to respond sensitively and appropriately to their infants’ cues, and provide a stimulating environment through rich language and cognitive activities and games. Coaching takes place through the use of videotapes of mothers modelling appropriate behaviour, and videotapes of the parent and infant interacting together filmed at the end of each session.

  Evidence Rating: 2+
  Cost Rating: 2
  Delivery Model: Home visiting
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Group: Infants
  Main setting: Home
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Learning Together Programme - Foundation PEEP 4s level
  
  

  The programme consists of five, age-specific curricula delivered by PEEP-trained practitioners for 33 weeks during school term-time. Each curriculum teaches parents age-specific skills for supporting their children’s early learning and social and emotional development.

  Evidence Rating: 2+
  Cost Rating: 1
  Delivery Model: Group
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Group: Preschool
  Main setting: Children's centre or early-years setting
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Multisystemic Therapy
  
  

  MST therapists provide the young person and their parents with individual and family therapy over a four to six-month period with the aim of doing ‘whatever it takes’ to improve the family’s functioning and the young person’s behaviour. 

  Evidence Rating: 4+ (mixed evidence)
  Cost Rating: 5
  Delivery Model: Individual
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Groups: Preadolescents, Adolescents
  Main setting: Home
  Ireland Provision: Yes
  
• Getting Ready
  
  

  The Getting Ready intervention is a process of interacting with families that occurs during all exchanges with them (eg home visits, conferences, informal interactions). It can be implemented in centre-based programmes (eg preschool) or home-visitation programmes (in which families receive weekly visits from a teacher). It is not a curriculum or a packaged, stand-alone programme but is implemented in coordination with existing programmes. It provides early childhood professionals with an approach to working with families to support parent engagement.

  Evidence Rating: 2+
  Cost Rating: NA
  Delivery Model: Home visiting
  Classification: Targeted selective
  Age Groups: Toddlers, Preschool
  Main setting: Children's centre or early-years setting
  Ireland Provision: No
  
• Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
  
  

  Children and their parents attend between 12 and 18 sessions where they learn cognitive strategies for managing negative emotions and beliefs stemming from highly distressing and/or abusive experiences.

  Evidence Rating: 3+
  Cost Rating: 3
  Delivery Model: Individual
  Classification: Targeted indicated
  Age Groups: Primary school, Preadolescents, Adolescents, Toddlers, Preschool
  Main settings: Community centre, Out-patient health setting
  Ireland Provision: No