Parenting for Life Long Health

Founded in 2012 with UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO), Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH) is at the forefront of a global movement to accelerate the scale-up of evidence-based, freely-available, inclusive, and culturally sensitive parenting solutions within existing systems of delivery, to promote healthy child development and prevent family violence in the Global South.

Key partners in the movement include the Global Initiative to Support Parents (GISP), of which PLH is a founding member, and the Global Parenting Initiative. Programmes developed by PLH have been rigorously tested in more than 15 randomised controlled trials. These in-person, remote, digital, and hybrid parenting programmes (for parents of infants, toddlers, young children, and teens) have been delivered in 38 low- and middle-income countries to more than 400,000 children and parents. Over the last 50 years, more than 77 reviews of in-person, evidence-based, open-source parenting programmes have proven that they are effective in reducing violence against children.

From 2020 to 2021, PLH co-led the COVID-19 Playful Parenting Emergency Response, an inter-agency initiative that supported the dissemination of evidence-informed parenting materials to more than 210.5 million people. PLH has also provided support to parents and caregivers in humanitarian crises in Ukraine, Pakistan, Syria/Turkey, Sudan, and elsewhere. In response to increasing demand from United Nations, bilateral and government partners, PLH was formally established as a charitable social enterprise in the UK in 2022. The organisation’s goal is to build the connections, integrated solutions, and knowledge base necessary to catalyse sustainable impact of parenting support programmes at scale, across the Global South.