Practical parenting
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| Helping parents ... Professor Sanders |
Professor Matt Sanders, creator of the Triple P parenting program, met with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair late last year before the PM announced a $10 million parenting help package. Professor Sanders, Director of UQ’s Parenting and Family Support Centre (PFSC), is the 2007 Suncorp Queenslander of the Year.
More than 20,000 practitioners in 15 countries have been trained to deliver various Triple P interventions and it has been estimated that more than three million children worldwide have benefited from the program. The British package will pay for parenting experts to assist families in 77 areas across England on issues such as juvenile crime and anti-social and public nuisance problems.
Professor Sanders was invited as a parenting advisor to a Downing Street meeting following the success of Driving Mum and Dad Mad, a popular UK TV show based on five families’ journeys through Triple P. He served as an expert advisor to the Council of Europe in Strassbourg (France) and helped formulate policy advice to 46 member countries on positive parenting.
“Triple P is an example of how universities can successfully commercialise intellectual property and is an important example stemming from the social and behavioural sciences,” he said.
