Project Team
P4LH Staff
Parenting for Lifelong Health
Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH) is an international initiative led by WHO, UNICEF, and the Universities of Oxford, Bangor, Cape Town, and Stellenbosch. PLH is committed to developing and testing effective, freely available, culturally relevant, and scalable parenting programmes to reduce the risk of violence against children and improve child wellbeing in low and middle-income countries.
Project Aims
The primary long-term project goal is to reduce physical, emotional, and sexual violence against children in Thailand. In order to achieve this vision, families who have participated in a Parenting for Lifelong Health programme will have newly acquired parenting skills that enable them to strengthen parent-child relationships, increase positive parenting practices, reduce violent discipline, and improve child monitoring and supervision in online and offline environments. This skills training and support will be possible due to our short terms goals of building the capacity of policymakers, monitoring and evaluation officers, and frontline practitioners, who are working within government agencies and NGOs to deliver PLH programmes to families with children across the developmental spectrum.
The secondary long-term project goal is to reduce the overall level of physical, emotional, and sexual violence against children in Southeast Asia. Our short-term goal, which will assist in this effort, is to promote the adaptation and implementation of evidence-based parenting programmes through the South-to-South exchange of good practices between practitioners and researchers.
Project Period: January 2022 – December 2025
Objectives
To support the scale-up and evaluation of PLH delivery within the public health system in Thailand, with an initial focus on the Northeastern region
To foster the development of national and regional Communities of Practice focused on knowledge exchange and the promotion of evidence-based parenting interventions
Videos
Parenting for Lifelong Health - ParentChat
These 16 videos, produced by the Peace Culture Foundation and Fong Mek Productions, in collaboration with Parenting for Lifelong Health and the Global Parenting Initiative, have been created for the ParentChat Thailand programme. These videos depict the application of various Parenting for Lifelong Health parenting skills to be used as the basis for parent group discussions, as well as scenarios and challenges that parents of children aged 2-17 years in Thailand may face in their day-to-day lives.
Resources
Find out more about PLH in Thailand at the below links:
Overview of the Parenting for Lifelong Health for Young Children Thailand programme here
2021 Feasibility pilot paper in BMC Public Health here
Overview handout on PLH in Thailand here
Cost and cost benefit analysis brief on PLH-YC in Thailand here
PLH-YC programme brochure (2024 version) here
PLH-YC Policy Brief (2024 version) here
Key Collaborations
Funded by
Partners
Boromarajonani Nursing College, Chiang Mai University, Chulalongkorn University, Mahidol University, Ministry of Public Health, UNICEF Thailand
Thai Positive Parenting Community of Practice (TPP-CoP)
TPP-CoP is a collaborative space dedicated to promoting safe, nurturing, and positive care for every child.
This platform brings together parents, caregivers, practitioners, and advocates to:
Share knowledge, experiences, and ideas
Strengthen practices that support children’s well-being
Build a supportive network that helps positive parenting thrive across Thailand
Membership is free and open to everyone who is committed to creating a positive future for children.
Learn more and join us at: www.thaipositiveparentingcommunity.org
Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TPPCoP/