Parenting for Lifelong Health

Important new research published in JMIR Publications by Max Klapow, Andrew Rosenblatt, Frances Gardner, and our CEO, Jamie Lachman on the feasibility and acceptability of chatbots that provide parenting support: “This is the first study to review the implementation feasibility and acceptability of chatbots for delivering parenting programs. While preliminary evidence suggests that chatbots can be used to deliver parenting programs, further research, standardization of reporting, and scaling up of effectiveness testing are critical to harness the full benefits of chatbots for promoting family well-being.” Parenting for Lifelong Health is at the forefront of developing, testing, and scaling innovative tech-assisted parenting support in the Global South. This research is critical to our work to make sure that our innovations are effective. Congratulations to the authors, especially Max Klapow! #parenting #chatbots #feasibility

Know anyone with experience working in the Pacific region and expertise in parenting programmes research and implementation?

Parenting for Lifelong Health is looking for an area consultant to work on a potential project in 2025 providing technical support on the scale up of evidence-based parenting programmes in the Pacific region. Please share! #jobopportunity

Excellent article by Chris Fellingham on how deep social ventures can draw upon research findings to improve social welfare and address SDGs (with a nice shoutout to our work focused on scaling evidence-based parenting solutions in the Global South). "If the first challenge is finding what works, the second is finding interventions that give the most value for money given public, philanthropic and impact financing is always woefully short. Deep social ventures have an advantage here too – immersion in the literature enables them to identify the most high impact interventions to deliver through their social venture. Parenting for Lifelong Health, which focuses on reducing domestic violence against children in LMIC countries by focusing on evidence-based parenting programmes, has done just this and have already prevented an estimated 81,000 children from harm and reached 400,000 families across 35+ countries by taking what works best and delivering it at scale."

Sneak preview of forthcoming evidence review of what works to prevent sexual violence against children by Together for Girls WeProtect Global Alliance and Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) which includes Parenting for Lifelong Health’s ParentApp for Teens in Tanzania #evidence #childsexualabuse #prevention #whatworks #safefutures

Parenting for Lifelong Health is excited to have authored the recently released the World Health Organization’s comprehensive parenting handbook designed to guide policymakers, practitioners, and stakeholders in creating and refining evidence-based parenting interventions. This essential resource offers practical advice and strategies for developing, implementing, and monitoring programs that support families and nurture positive outcomes for children. Big thanks to Frances Gardner Alexandra Blackwell Saara Thakur, MPH Zuyi Fang Godfrey Siu and Ruben Parra-Cardona for their amazing work on creating this immensely impactful resource! #Parenting #Caregiving #EvidenceBased #PolicyMakers #Practitioners #GlobalHealth #violenceprevention https://lnkd.in/eKsevsrM

100 days until the historic first #GlobalMinisterialConference on ending violence against children! Violence affects a large number of the world’s children. Now is the time for governments to pledge their support for parents and ensure a brighter future. For more information: https://lnkd.in/dg9Btwjy World Health Organization UNICEF Early Childhood Development Action Network (ECDAN) Global Parenting Initiative #EndViolence #ViolenceIsPreventable #EveryChildProtected

Excited to share our series of video vignettes that will be used to support delivery of the Parenting for Lifelong Health ParentChat programme in rural Thailand. We hope that these videos help to readily demonstrate positive parenting skills to Thai families, including how to spend one-on-one time with your child, talk about emotions, use positive reinforcement, as well as apply positive discipline techniques. These videos were beautifully created by Thai filmmaker Prempapat Plittapolkranpim and his team, with my guidance during the shoot. I enjoyed writing the script based on illustrated stories developed by Parenting for Lifelong Health, together with vital inputs by Dr Jenny Doubt and Dr Sombat Tapanya.

Evaluation of our brief online training for over 3,400 government frontline service providers on the delivery of playful parenting programmes within the Philippines conditional cash transfer system during COVID-19 has been published!

Last chance to apply to be our Director of Development at Parenting for Lifelong Health working at the forefront of a global movement to end violence against children and improve child wellbeing through open source, evidence based human-digital parenting solutions at scale. Applications are due today!