Parenting or Family Component


5-A-Day Power Plus Program
Program increased students' consumption more servings of fruits and vegetables during lunchtime.

The Aban Aya Youth Project
Program reduced self-reported violence, provoking behavior, school delinquency, substance use, and sexual activity.

Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach
Program increased care linkage and retention and longer abstinence from marijuana.

The Adolescent Transitions Program – Parent and Teen Focus
Program decreased negative parent-child interactions but did not have an impact on on externalizing or smoking behavior.

The Adolescent Transitions Program – Parent Focus
Program positively impacted externalizing and smoking behaviors.

All Stars
Program that used debates and meetings to reduce adolescent alcohol, cigarette, and inhalant use.

Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up
Program reduced behavioral problems and stress.

Behavioral Weight Control Programme
Program reduced obesity.

Bienestar Health Program
Program lowered fasting glucose levels and increased physical fitness scores and dietary fiber intake in students.

Block the Sun, Not the Fun
Program increased the likelihood of sunscreen being applied to children.

Brief Strategic Family Therapy and Strategic Structural-Systems Engagement
Program reduced externalizing behavior and drug and alcohol abuse.

Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL) Summer Learning Program
Program improved reading skills and parental involvement.

Catch 'Em Being Good
Program reduced extremely antisocial behavior among white boys.

Child Health Supervision
Program improved diet and feeding, development, and problem behaviors.

Class Action - Project Northland Phase 2
Program reduced alcohol use and sales of alcohol to young-looking customers.

Clinician-based Cognitive Psychoeducational Intervention for Families
Program improved parents' depression-related attitudes and behaviors and reduced child internalizing symptoms.

Cognitive Behavioral Family Intervention (CBFI)
Program reduced maternal depression and child disruptive behavior

Comprehensive Child Development Program
Program did not produce positive impacts for participating families.

The Coping Power Program
Program reduced rates of substance use and delinquent behavior while also improving children’s social competence and behavior.

Creating Lasting Connections
Program showed positive impacts on service utilization by parents and youth as well as on measures of parent knowledge.

Dare to be You
Program increased parenting competence and satisfaction, as well as increasing positive parenting practices such as limit-setting and reducing harsh discipline. The program was also effective in reducing problem and oppositional behavior in children and increasing their level of development.

Dialogic Reading
Program increased children's performance on some measures of expressive vocabulary and verbal fluency.

Diet and Exercise Program for Families
Program reduced children's percentage overweight.

Draw the Line/Respect the Line
Program reduced likelihood of initiation of sex among boys.

Early Head Start
Program with center- and home-based services had positive impacts on parents and children in low-income families.

Early Intervention Program for Adolescent Mothers
Program reduced premature births and infant hospitalization duration through promotion of positive maternal behaviors

Early Risers
Program reduced disruptive behavior among children who have exhibited aggressive behavior through parent education and skills training

Even Start
Program that provided adult, parenting, and early childhood education positively impacted some parent and child outcomes.

Facts & Feelings
Program increased family communication about sexuality in the short term.

Families and Schools Together
Program reduced variability in reading and math scores.

Families and Schools Together (American Indian adaptation)
Program reduced aggressive and withdrawn behavior in children.

Families First
Program decreased child behavior problems and increased parent effectiveness.

Family-Based Behavior Modification Program to Target Obesity
Program increased parent weight loss.

The Family Bereavement Program (FBP)
Program increased positive affect, active inhibition, and positive coping.

The Family Health Project
Program improved dietary behavior of Mexican-American and Anglo-American families.

Family Planning Clinic Support Services
Program did not impact contraceptive use or pregnancy rates.

Fast Track Prevention Project
Comprehensive, ten-year intervention program had positive impacts on high-risk children’s development.


First Step to Success (FSS)
Program positively impacted young children’s behavior problems. 

Focus on Families
Program reduced drug use and domestic conflict and increased problem-solving for parents, but showed no direct impact on children.

Functional Family Therapy
Program helped treat existing behavioral problems and was associated with decreased recidivism and re-institutionalization.

Gimmie 5 (4th and 5th Grade Students)
Program increased students' consumption of fruits and vegetables.

Gimmie 5: A Fresh Nutrition Concept for Students
Program increased students' knowledge of fruit and vegetable nutrition

Girlfriends for KEEPS
Program for girls increased healthy choice behavior intentions, diet knowledge, and preference for physical activity.

Guiding Good Choices (formerly Preparing for the Drug Free Years)
Program decreased growth in adolescent alcohol use and negative parent-child interactions.

Head Start
Program was effective in increasing early cognitive development in the areas of reading, writing, and vocabulary.

Healthy Families New York (HFNY)
Home-visiting program effective in reducing the amount of child abuse and neglect.

Healthy Steps for Young Children
Program increased likelihood of usage of covers on electrical outlets.

Hear and Say Reading with Toddlers
Program increased parent reading behaviors and children's language use.

High 5
Program increased students' consumption of fruits and vegetables

High Scope Perry Preschool
High-quality preschool/home-visiting program produced numerous positive, long-term impacts.

Hip-Hop to Health Jr.
Program was effective in preventing large increases in children's Body Mass Index.

Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY)
Home-visitation program improved school readiness in children.

Hospital and Home Support Interventions During Infancy
Program had no impact on maternal attachment, healthcare utilization, or child abuse and neglect.

Hutchinson Smoking Prevention Project (HSPP)
Multi-year school-based program did not impact teens' smoking behaviors.

Hygiene Intervention for Preschool Students
Program increased students' hand-washing behavior.

Incredible Years Series
Intervention program for those at-risk for behavior problems.  Program enhanced parenting skills and improved children's academic and social competence.

Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP)
Program with home visiting, child care, and parenting meetings produced positive impacts in low birthweight children.

Informed Parents and Children Together (ImPACT)
Program increased demonstration of adolescents' condom-use skills.

Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Postpartum Depression
Program reduced parental stress but had no impacts on infant outcomes.

Keep a Clear Mind
Program increased parent-child communication about resisting peer pressure related to drug and alcohol use.

Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers (LIFT)
School-based and parenting components had positive impacts on school-age children's and adolescents' social skills.

Marvelous Me
Program improved self-concept of at-risk children.

Mentor-Implemented Violence Prevention Intervention for Assault-Injured Youth
Program increased conflict avoidance self-efficacy and decreased misdemeanor behaviors.

Metropolitan Area Child Study (MACS)
Program reduced aggression in urban-poor neighborhoods with higher levels of school and community resources.

Midwestern Prevention Project
Program employed individual, parental, and community components to decrease drug use in adolescents.

Minnesota Competence Enhancement Project (MCEP)
Program showed no impacts on child behavior.

Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP)
Social welfare service had positive impacts on welfare-receiving parents and children.

Montreal Prevention Experiment
Program increased boys' performance on measures of school adjustment and delinquency.

Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT)
Program reduced rates of drug use, increased academic performance, and improved family functioning.

Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC)
Program reduced rates of incarceration, arrests, and drug use among youth.

Multisystemic Therapy
Program improved family correlates of antisocial behavior and ameliorating adjustment problems.

My Baby U
Video- and book-based program impacted positive infant health and parenting outcomes.

New Beginnings
Program reduced the development of mental disorders and disorders in general.

New Chance
Program that provided comprehensive services had mixed impacts on disadvantaged families.

New Hope Project
Program positively impacted parents' employment and poverty status and children's educational and behavioral outcomes.

Nuestras Familias
Program improved youth outcomes in aggression, externalizing behavior, and likelihood of smoking.

Nurse-Family Partnership
Home visiting program had several positive impacts on poor unmarried mothers and their children.

Nurturing Program for Teenage Parents and Their Families
Program decreased parent-child dysfunction and inappropriate expectations, but had no impact on mental health or parental stress levels.

Obesity-Focused Active Parenting
Home visiting program had no impacts on nutrition, physical activity, or weight.

Osteoporosis Prevention and Self-Management Course
Program increased mother's probability of increasing her child's calcium intake.

Parent-Child Assistance Program
Children of mothers in the program were not more likely to have received regular medical care or appropriate immunizations. 

Parent-Child Home Program
Program increased graduation rates and decreased drop-out rates later in life for children.

Parent-Child Interaction Therapy
Program was effective in reducing repeat cases of physical abuse and reduced parental depression and negative parenting behaviors.

Parent Education Group for Families Affected by Depression
Program improved family and school functioning.

Parent Management Training - Oregon Model (PMTO)
Program decreased child deviant behavior.

Parent-Mediated Treatment Program
Program increased child compliance and positive parenting behavior.

Parent-Targeted Intervention for Adolescent Substance Use Prevention
Program had no impact on substance use or parenting behaviors.

Parental Training and Contingency Contracting for Overweight Children
Program impacts are undetermined.

Parenting Adolescents Wisely (PAW) Program
Program was found to reduce problematic child behaviors.

Parents as Teachers
Home visiting-based parent education program had small but positive impacts on parents and their young children.

Parents' Fair Share Demonstration
Program slightly increased formal child support, but had no impact on paternal employment or involvement with child.

Positive Action Family Program
Program increased family cohesion and parent-child bonding and decreased family conflict.

Positive Parenting
Program decreased child-reported aggression, delinquency, victimization, and attention problems.

Preparing for the Drug Free Years
Program decreased growth in adolescent alcohol use and negative parent-child interactions.

Progresa Poverty Program
Program increased enrollment rates and education levels of poor children.

Project CARE
Program increased cognitive development among children at risk for delayed development.

Project Northland
Multi-year, multi-component program lowered adolescents' substance use and susceptibility to peer influence.

Project SAFE (Strengthening America's Families and Environment)
Program improved student school bonding, parenting skills, social competence, family relationships, and student self-regulation.

Project Sixteen
Addition of community component reduced the typical increase of tobacco use in teens.

Project Taking Charge
Program was found to  increase adolescents' and parents' knowledge of sexual development and STDs.

Project TALC
Program reduced adolescents' emotional distress and conduct problems and raised levels of self-esteem.

Raising Healthy Children
Program increased students' academic performance and commitment to school and decreased antisocial behaviors.

Reach Out and Read (ROR)
Program that integrated early literacy into pediatric check-ups had positive impacts on family reading behaviors.

Reaching Educators, Children and Parents (RECAP)
Program improved children's internalizing and externalizing problems.

Real Men
Program increased likelihood of sex-related topic discussion between fathers and sons.

Reducing Children's Television Viewing to Prevent Obesity
Program reduced television viewing and improved body composition.

Reducing Sedentary Behavior
Program decreased sedentary behavior and intake of fruits and vegetables.

Responding in Peaceful and Positive Ways
Program increased the knowledge-base of participants.

Restorative Justice Conferencing
Program reduced offender re-arrest.

SAFEChildren
Program was effective in increasing children’s reading ability and retaining parent involvement in the school over time.

Safer Choices
Multi-component sexuality education program led to higher rates of condom usage in high-schoolers.

 

Saving Sex for Later
Parent-focused sex education curriculum increased parent-child communication, parent self-efficacy, and the influence parents had on their children.

SCRIPT (Screening and Intervention of Problem Behavior in Toddlerhood) Study
Program improved positive maternal discipline and attitudes towards sensitivity, but it had no impact on maternal sensitivity or negative maternal discipline.

Self Sufficiency Project (SSP)
Income supplement program increased parental employment and income as well as children's' school achievement and activity involvement.


Sembrando Salud
Program improved parent-child communication in households with fewer children.


SHAPEDOWN
Program improved adolescents' relative weight, weight-related behavior, self-esteem, depressive symptoms, and weight management knowledge.

Skills for Academic and Social Success
Program reduced anxiety and social avoidance in adolescents.

Social Skills Training Program for Children With ADHD
Program increased assertion scores for children and parents.

South Oxnard Challenge Program (SOCP)
Program was effective in increasing the amount of contact with staff, the amount of time that was spent on a child's case, and the child's use of referral services.

STAR (Stop, Think, Ask, Respond) Parenting Program
Program improved parent-child interaction and reduced parent angrer and child behavioral and emotional problems.

STARS (Start Taking Alcohol Risks Seriously) for Families
Program reduced alcohol use and intent to drink alcohol.

Staying Connected With Your Teen
Program improved attitudes toward reducing substance use.

STOP Technique and Insight Program for Depression
Program was effective in reducing depressive symptoms, negative thinking, and chronic stressors among mothers with children ages 2-6 years.


Strengthening Families Program (Formerly Iowa Strengthening Families Program)
Program for parents and adolescents improved parenting skills and strengthened parent-adolescent relationship.

Strong African American Families (SAAF)
Program decreased risk behaviors in children and increased positive parenting.

Success for All
Program increased word identification and other phonological skills.

Talking Parents, Healthy Teens
Program increase parent-child communication on sexual health.

Teen Intervene
Program reduced alcohol use and substance use related consequences.

Teenage Parent Demonstration
Multicomponent program had short-term positive impacts on certain teen parent outcomes; null effects on various teen parent and child outcomes.

 

Three Generations Project
Program positively impacted adolescent mothers with mixed results for subsequent births and parenting attitudes.
 

Transactional Model of Early Home Intervention
Program improved child's home environment and cognitive development.

Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
Program reduced the symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder.

Triple P-Positive Parenting Program
Program reduced child behavior problems and dysfunctional parenting styles, and increased parental competence.

UCLA Family Development Project
Program was effective in increasing the mothers’ responsiveness to their child’s needs as well as increasing children's secure, autonomy, and task involvement.

Untitled Fitness and Nutrition Intervention
Program improved diet and blood pressure, especially for girls.

Untitled Health Care Program for First-Time Adolescent Mothers and their Infants
Program participants had a decreased likelihood of a repeat pregnancy and increased likelihood of immunization for infants.

Varying Maternal Involvement in a Weight Loss Program
Program decreased percentage overweight.

Voluntary Summer Reading Intervention
Program improved reading outcomes for black students, students with less than 100 books, and students with less than 50 books.

Western Australian Schools Physical Activity and Nutrition (WASPAN)
School-based program increased physical fitness levels, but did not impact BMI.

Who Do You Tell
Program increased participants knowledge of appropriate and inappropriate touch.

WIC Nutrition Education Demonstration Study
Program did not increase knowledge of nutrition; program participants had higher test scores than control group participants.

Woodrock Youth Development Project (WYDP)
Multi-component program positively impacted substance use, race relations, and other outcomes in at-risk children and teens.