Early Parenting

These are interventions to support parents in the earliest years of life. They help parents develop the key skill of attunement, foster empathy and encourage secure attachment.

Nurse Family Partnership

Nurse Family Partnership is the most thoroughly researched and recommended early intervention in the world and since WAVE worked with its originator, David Olds, between 2004 and 2006 to bring it to the UK, it now runs in this country as the Family Nurse Partnership.

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Community Mothers Programme, Dublin

The Community Mothers Programme (CMP) in Dublin trains experienced, volunteer mothers from the local community to visit families to provide necessary child-rearing support from the birth of a child until its second birthday. Research on the children and families at age 8 showed superior parenting skills among the programme families, children who are more likely to read books regularly, visit the dentist and have better nutritional intake.

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Research of Richard Tremblay

It is commonly said that the peak age for violent behaviour is mid-adolescence. Four decades of research by Professor Richard Tremblay demonstrate that a more accurate statement would be that while the visible consequences of violence are greatest in mid-adolescence, the peak age for aggression and violence in children is 2-3, with those children destined to be the most troublesome offenders in teenage years already distinguished at age 3 by levels of aggression 10 times higher than the most peaceable 30% of toddlers. Tremblay’s research is summarised and has an important message for the most effective age of intervention to reduce violence in society.

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Parents as Teachers

Parents as Teachers trains and supports early-years professionals on how best to engage parents in their child’s development. They develop curricula for parent education based on the latest research in child development and neuroscience and train early-years professionals to deliver these. They also supply extensive support resources both for professionals and parents, follow-up training and mentorship and annual accreditation to maintain quality.

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Circle of Security

Circle of Security is a 20-week, group-based, parent educational and  psychotherapeutic intervention designed to shift patterns of caregiving interactions in high-risk, caregiver-child dyads (pairs) to a more appropriate developmental pathway.

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