A community of practice shared learning event for members to connect and build lines of communication with one another, share ideas, skills, research, resources, multiple perspectives, and new information regarding this topic.
Our goal for this Working Group is to have a collective group of people collaborating, learning from one another and engaging to provide personal growth in your daily work. The Parenting Working Group will be moderated by Genevieve Haupt Ronnie and Saara Thakur from the Global Parenting Initiative
Bring your ideas and expertise and collaborate with us on events at ISPCAN Congresses and online throughout the year. Together, we'll create opportunities to explore emerging parenting issues, share and create valuable resources, expand knowledge, and work to bring parenting programs into action.
Network with parenting experts, and mentors worldwide.
Access to data driven effective parenting programs.
Opportunities to present your work at ISPCAN congresses and virtually.
Work alongside world-renowned parenting experts to make an impact in this critical area.
Learn from others and work on global parenting projects, research, and advocacy initiatives.
Get the expertise and support you need to address burnout and fatigue
Sign up for an ISPCAN Membership
Connect with the Parenting Working Group on the member portal
Subscribe to the ISPCAN Newsletter and discussions in the member portal
Join the discussion, start connecting & grow your career!
If you are a parenting expert or have an interest in learning more about positive parenting programs, then please join us for the latest cutting-edge research and practice in this area, please consider joining us. The Parenting Working group is open to active ISPCAN members only.
Bring your ideas and expertise and collaborate with us during the pre-congress Parenting Working Group Meeting in Melbourne. Together, we'll create opportunities to enhance your skills, expand your knowledge, and build meaningful connections.
The Global Conceptual Framework for Universal Parenting Support sets out UNICEF’s vision for how countries can build strong, coherent and inclusive systems of support for parents and caregivers across the life course. Grounded in children’s rights and informed by global evidence, the Framework provides a shared foundation for aligning policies, financing, workforce development and service delivery around one common goal: ensuring that every family has access to the support they need to raise children in safe, nurturing and protective environments.
The GPI conducts innovative and rigorous research to increase the evidence of effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and scalability of PLH’s human-digital playful parenting programmes.
PLH tools have been adapted to more than 30 country contexts. From here, you can filter and find open-source trainer manuals, guidelines and other resources to create tailored parenting programs
Half-day pre-congress working group will offer a half-day workshop tailored to CAN professionals.
• Supporting Wellness through Integrated Family Training (SWIFT)
• ParentText Optimisation and Evaluation
• Parenting within the Public Health System
• Parenting within the Preschool System
• Parenting on the Border is a research project supporting migrant and displaced families
• Parenting within the Social Welfare System
Genevieve Haupt Ronnie is the Community of Practice Lead with the Global Parenting Initiative. She is also the Country Lead for qualitative data collection for the Scale-Up of Parenting Evaluation Research (SUPER) study. She is a Junior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Science Research (CSSR) at the University of Cape Town. She has a keen interest in all aspects of equality and how it affects services and rights for all, especially young people.
Saara Thakur is a public health graduate and has worked with the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children and the Violence Prevention team at the WHO, Headquarters. She joined the University of Oxford Department of Social Policy and Intervention and Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH) at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and worked on the dissemination of evidence-informed parenting resources, which have reached over 196 million beneficiaries in 198 countries and territories and are part of 34 government COVID-19 responses.
Maggie Marx (she/her) earned her stripes as writer and copy editor for a large variety of South African titles and ecommerce platforms after which she took up the helm as research uptake and communications coordinator for the international research consortium, the Programme for Improving Mental Healthcare (PRIME) lead from the Alan J Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health at UCT.
