Parenting for Lifelong Health: family materials and programmes

1What parents should know

A collection of parenting programmes and materials, including resources for families with children aged 2–9 and young people aged 10–17. It focuses on relationships and preventing violence.

2What question it helps with

Where can families find structured examples of positive interaction, communication and managing difficult situations?

3Who it is for

This selection focuses on the young-children programme (2–9) and teen programme (10–17). Other PLH programmes have different age ranges. Manuals for facilitators and materials for families serve different roles.

4How it relates to this stage

Choose the programme and family material for the relevant age. Do not combine rules from different manuals into one universal plan.

• The suite was designed with low-resource settings in mind.
• The official collection separates family materials from facilitator manuals.
• WHO states that the manuals should be accompanied by training through implementing partners.

6How to use this resource

• Start at the official manuals page and choose a parent handbook or family guidebook for the age group.
• Use the family material to understand the programme and prepare questions for a provider.
• If considering running sessions for others, contact an implementing partner about training and permissions.

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