Triple P Professional Development Trainings
The Triple P – Positive Parenting Program is an evidence-based program that gives parents tips on how to manage the challenges of family life such as tantrums, bedtime battles, disobedience, and aggression.
Triple P Provider Training Courses vary in length depending on the level. Typically, training courses are conducted over one to four days. The courses cover the theoretical foundations of behavioral family interventions both generally and specifically to Triple P. A comprehensive overview of the development and prevalence of behavioral and emotional problems in children and/or adolescents is also presented.
Triple P System & Levels
The Triple P – Positive Parenting Program isn't a single program, but rather a suite of interventions of increasing intensity for parents of children birth–16 years.
Within each level, there is also a choice of delivery methods. This ensures Triple P is flexible enough to meet the needs of individual and specific communities.
It is designed to give parents as much help as they need – but not too much – to prevent over-servicing and encourage self-sufficiency.
Level One: Communication Campaign
A collection of outreach materials to normalize parenting support and raise awareness of the need to support parents.
Please contact us if you would like to have Triple P promotional materials in your office or agency.
Additional Information
This high-impact communications campaign includes a range of materials (including brochures, posters, newspaper columns, billboards, etc.) that aims to put parenting on the public agenda and to raise awareness of the need to support parents in this vital role.
Level Two: General Information
This level of Triple P provides a “light touch” assistance to parents. It’s designed to provide a brief one-time type of assistance to those parents who are coping well but have one or two specific concerns around their child’s behavior. Topics include: Power of Positive Parenting, Raising Confident, Competent Children, and Raising Resilient Children.
A person trained at this level would be equipped to give presentations to groups of parents or to inform individual parents about specific parenting tools found in the variety of Triple P Tip-Sheets.
Available Trainings
- Seminar Extension Training
This training provides general information about Triple P Parenting along with an overview of the 5 steps to Positive Parenting.
Best Suited For
Those involved in:
- Education (including preschools)
- Child Care Providers
- School Counselors
- Therapists
- Social Services
- Health Services
- Voluntary Organizations
Level Three: Brief Intervention
This level of Triple P provides a brief intervention to parents either as a series of individual consultations or an extended group discussion. It’s designed to provide support for parents struggling with a mild to moderate child behavior. This level addresses a specific problem or issue.
A person trained at this level would be equipped to provide targeted support to parents to address their primary parenting concerns.
Available Trainings
- Primary Care
This training provides professionals with tools to meet with parents one-on-one to make individualized parenting plans to focus on a specific behavioral challenge, and have brief meetings over 1-2 months. - Primary Care Teen
This training is for professionals who work with teens, who meet with parents about specific concerns they have about their teen’s behavior, who would benefit from a 2-hour group discussion. The discussion topics are: Getting teenagers to cooperate, Coping with emotions. Building teenagers’ survival skills, and Reducing family conflict. - Primary Care Stepping Stones
This training is specifically for professionals who work with children (up to 12 years old) with disabilities This level of Triple P is for professionals who may be involved in occasional support for the client and are able to provide focused therapeutic intervetions, including teachers, school counselors, nurses, home visitors, family physicians and allied health professionals.
Best Suited For
Those involved in:
- Education (including preschools)
- Child Care Providers
- School Counselors
- Therapists
- Social Services
- Health Services
- Voluntary Organizations (i.e. Project Sanctuary staff, Youth Project staff)
Level Four: Comprehensive Intervention
This level of Triple P provides a comprehensive overview of different types of parenting styles and core parenting skills to address a variety of parenting situations. It’s designed to provide variety of skills to parents of children with more severe behavior or for parents interested in gaining more in-depth understanding of positive parenting.
A person trained at this level would be equipped to provide a broad set of parenting skills to parents.
Available Trainings
- Group Triple P
This training is for professionals who can work with clients on their child’s behavior, who would benefit from intensive training in positive parenting or those who wish to learn a variety of parenting skills to apply to multiple contexts. These parents can commit to 8 weeks of regular appointments. - Group Teen Triple P
This training is for professionals who have clients with concerns about their teen’s behavior who would benefit from intensive training in positive parenting or those who wish to learn a variety of parenting skills to apply to multiple contexts. These parents can commit to 8 weeks of regular appointments. - Group Stepping Stones Triple P
(working with children with disabilities)
This training is for professionals who have clients who have a child with a disability (up to 12 years old), who need intensive training in positive parenting or those who wish to learn a variety of parenting skills to apply to multiple contexts. These parents can commit to 9 weeks of regular appointments.
Best Suited For
Those involved in:
- Education (including preschools)
- Child Care Providers
- School Counselors
- Therapists
- Social Services
- Health Services
- Voluntary Organizations (i.e. Project Sanctuary staff, Youth Project staff)
Level Five: Intensive Intervention
This level of Triple P provides an intensive intervention for parents struggling with complex parenting issues such as partner conflict or stress or mental health issues. It’s designed to provide intensive support to help parents address issues around anger management, co-parenting through divorce or separation, and/or reducing their risk of child maltreatment.
A person trained at this level would be equipped in providing concentrated support to improve personal coping strategies that help improve overall parenting outcomes.
Available Trainings
- Enhanced
This training is for professionals who work with parents of children with concurrent child behavior problems and family adjustment difficulties (depression, stress, partner conflict). These parents have attempted a Level 4 program and shown minimal improvements. - Group Lifestyle
This training is for professionals who provide nutritional and lifestyle support to their clients, including dieticians, physical education teachers, nurses, psychologists, and physicians. This is particularly for parents of overweight or obese children (5-10 years old), who have concerns about their child’s weight and are willing to make changes in their family’s lifestyle. These parents can commit to up to 6 months of regular appointments. - Pathways
This training is for professionals who work with parents who have anger-management issues and other challenges that put them at risk of child abuse and neglect. - Transitions
(death, divorce, separation)
This training is for professionals who provide support to parents who are going through separation and divorce, who have concurrent concerns about their child’s behavior.
Best Suited For
Those involved in:
- Education (including preschools)
- Child Care Providers
- School Counselors
- Family Therapists
- Social Services
- Health Services
- Dietician Specialist
