Positive parenting is simply an approach to parenting that gives parents and carers tools and strategies to raise their child in an environment that is safe, loving and predictable. Triple P’s positive parenting program allows each person doing the program to decide what is important to them. So it’s not telling you how to raise children, but giving you the confidence and skills to build good relationships, set boundaries and rules calmly and in ways that kids understand, and follow up with consequences that are not harmful.

To sum it up, Triple P helps you:

• Raise happy, confident, capable kids
• Build and maintain a close, loving relationship with your child
• Understand more about child development to make parenting more enjoyable and easier
• Encourage positive behavior
• Prevent and manage misbehavior effectively, in a way that supports children’s emotional wellbeing
• Have rules and routines everyone respects and follows
• Feel less stressed and calmer
• Feel more able to handle various parenting situations, knowing you’re doing the best for your kids.

Providers with the Montgomery County Department of Health, as well as community partners within the school system and Partnership for Children, completed Positive Parenting Program (Triple P) provider training to help make the program more accessible to people in Montgomery County. Along with in person sessions at each of these facilities, online Triple P services were advertised through social media and posters in clinic settings to communicate the benefits of the Triple P program and online availability. Through these efforts, parents were able to receive more information on the benefits of the program and contact information for training providers.