The Ensuring Nutrition, Health, and Children’s Early Stimulation and Learning (ENHANCE) program provides opportunities for parents and primary caregivers to gain developmentally appropriate knowledge and skills to care for their infants and young children.
Expectant parents and parents of children under age 5
Women and Children Protection Units are established in government and local government unit-assisted hospitals to provide a safe haven for abused children. Training is provided to multidisciplinary teams so that children receive compassionate, nonthreatening care in a child-friendly space.
Mothers and children who are abused
The Home-Based Early Child Care and Development program was developed primarily to support parents as their children’s first teachers and to provide alternative programs for children unable to attend center-based programs.
Parents of children under age 4
Masayang Pamilya Para sa Batang Pilipino, or MaPa Program, is an evidence-based parent support intervention to strengthen the relationship between Filipino parents/caregivers and children to prevent child maltreatment. The MaPa Program promotes playful positive parenting, teaching parents/caregivers skills in using child-led play, giving undivided attention, and using positive nonviolent strategies in managing children’s challenging behaviors.
Parents of children ages 2 to 17
Strengthening Filipino Responses in the Home, School and Community: A Positive Approach to Child Discipline is a product of two years of engagement with children, their parents, and community leaders in eight selected localities in the Philippines. It built on existing disciplining approaches Filipinos practice in the home, school, and community and in the context of the region. The manual has been mainstreamed since its inception with the Department of Education, local Social Welfare and Development offices and local government units.
Parents of children of all ages
HEART to Heart (Healthy, Empowered, and Responsible Teens) program provides parents and their children with a safe and enabling environment to learn and discuss adolescent sexual and reproductive health. They are also equipped to train other parents and children.
Parents and adolescents ages 10 to 14; they meet together
The iMulat app was developed in 2018 as supplementary support to multiple existing programs delivered by Save the Children Philippines that aim to support positive and responsive parenting, familial well-being, and parental engagement in children’s learning and development.
Parents of children from birth to age 6
The Pag-unlad ng bata: sa Kalinga nga Magulang nagmula parenting program aims to make parents more responsive to their children’s needs and build better attachment through showing love, close communication, and praise. The program promotes enriching conversations in which the parent prompts the child to “think beyond” the present and make connections with the wider world.
Parents of children under age 6
Positive Deviance Health + Building Brains program aims for behavior change in a community setting through group sessions and home visits.
Parents of children under age 5 and especially ages 0 to 2
Strong Families is a skills prevention program for families living in stressful and challenging settings. The program supports caregivers to strengthen age-specific and age-appropriate family functions and interactions.
Parents of children of all ages
Supporting Scale-Up of Evidence-Based Parenting Interventions aims to enhance parenting abilities for parents and caregivers; provide support to influence policies, strategies, and capacities for the scale-up of evidence-based parenting support interventions; and introduce evidence from behavioral sciences to identify delivery approaches that correspond to local context, culture, and end-user preferences.
Parents of children of all ages
