implementation and cost benefits of the triple p system ron prinz, ph.d. carolina distinguished...
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Implementation and Cost Benefits of the Triple P System
Ron Prinz, Ph.D.Carolina Distinguished Professor
Director, Parenting and Family Research CenterUniversity of South Carolina
The Triple P Positive Parenting Symposium
A Promising Strategy to Reduce Child Maltreatment
December 8, 2009
Parenting and family support that is:
Cost EffectiveAND
Population Wide
Is this a contradiction of goals?
Population-wide dissemination requires:
• Multi-level parenting intervention• Evidence-based programming• Efficient parenting intervention designed
specifically for population-based dissemination
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Triple P System of Parenting Interventions
Universal strategy
• Does not have to mean every family gets intensive intervention or even non-intensive face-to-face programming
• Triple P emphasizes universal access to evidence-based parenting information, not 100% direct service delivery
Combine strategies for efficiency
Blending of:
-- Universal prevention
-- Selected prevention
-- Indicated prevention
-- Early intervention
-- Treatment
Achieve multiple goals with same parenting intervention• Prevention of children’s social, emotional and
behavioral problems• Prevention of child maltreatment (abusive
parenting)• Promotion of healthy child development,
readiness for school• Family-based treatment of child mental-health
problems
Ways to get more out of a population approach
Media strategies
• Why should individual practitioners care about Triple P media strategies?
• Parental receptivity– Normalize seeking of parenting/family support– De-stigmatize participation– Stimulate interest and action
• Validate positive parenting• Reinforce practitioners• Extend practitioners’ work
Media Coverage
Media strategies
• Multiple publicity strategies– Press releases linked to local interests– Reporter-initiated news stories– Positive parenting articles– Radio public-service announcements (PSAs)– Community events– School newsletters, other mailings– Bumper stickers, memorabilia
• Involve larger numbers of parents in lower program levels (e.g., parenting seminars)
Role of practitioner is critical
• Triple P is a framework and comprehensive set of tools
• Triple P is NOT a cookbook• “Manual with a brain”• Don’t leave your communication and analytical
skills at the door• Beyond training:
– Self-regulation of professional development– Peer support networks (to learn from peers)
“It Doesn’t Work with My Families”
• The “It” (Triple P) is a framework with many different “ITS”
• Same thing is sometimes heard in schools: – “Some children cannot learn”– “I cannot get through to this child”
• When faced with challenging situations:– Focus heavily on process– Utilize supervisory and peer support resources– Simplify the initial goals– Make sure that a mandate from the parent has been
achieved
Peer support networks
• Within and across agencies• Diversity of client populations is good• Collective problem-solving• Expanding your repertoire
Parents as consumers
• Let parents in the community know about Triple P (even if your organization doesn’t work directly with your network of parents)
• Involve parents and parent advocates in community planning committees
• Document parental opinions about Triple P
Triple P as value added
• Triple P is not meant to supplant other kinds of services
• Child trauma treatment• Substance abuse treatment of parents• Housing, health care, and sustenance needs
Population dissemination
• Can be several systems at once• Or, incremental• Complete population dissemination:
– An ideal to strive for– Not an end state– Find the levels of penetration sufficient to produce
positive changes in prevalence of target problems
Cost and benefit considerations
Summary cost
• Population that includes100,000 families• Cost of Triple P system dissemination
infrastructure:– Per child birth to 12 years
$11.74 cost per child
Cost basis
• Population of approximately 500,000 people• Costs included:
– All levels of Triple P training– All practitioner materials– Pre-training consultation– Post-training consultation and support– Implementation of media strategies
• Costs not included:– Parent resource materials– Workforce itself
Potential benefits and cost offsets
Estimating impact on child abuse
www.paxis.org/triplep
Estimator for U.S. states
Not yet calibrated for Canada, but gives general sense of cost offsets
Triple P Prevention Estimator
• Apply population-trial effects to other geographic areas
• Example: Florida• FL Pop: 1,977,541 children birth to age 9• FL Child Maltreatment: 89,072 cases in 2006• FL Out of Home Placements: 10,421
placements in 2006
Triple P Prevention Estimator
• Select tab “Out of Home Placements”• Set the $ value for annual cost of one out-of-
home placement (let’s choose $18,000)• If population preventive effects occurred in
Florida, this would result in:– Reduction of 2,657 placements in a year– Savings of $47,832,390 in a year ($18,000 times
2,657)
Triple P Prevention Estimator
• If the effects in Florida were half as strong as those found in the population trial, then:– Out-of-home placement savings would be
$23,916,195 in a year
• Express the anticipated savings as a range:– Between $23 and $47 million annually for out-of-home
placements
Not Included in Savings Estimate
• Long-term cost offset in terms of sequalae of child maltreatment
• Reduction of children’s social, emotional, behavioral, and health problems (general population)– Short-term reduction of services costs– Long-term cost offsets
Sources of efficiency
• Utilize existing workforce across many settings, agencies, and providers
• Combine goals that have in common parenting intervention
• De-stigmatize participation by parents• Parenting interventions designed for population
dissemination• Build on evidence-based system of interventions• Use the tiered model that draws on media and
low-intensity interventions as the base
Conclusions
1. Dissemination of the Triple P system has produced clear impact on prevalence of child maltreatment at a population level
2. First time ever that a population randomization trial on child maltreatment has been conducted and yielded preventive effects
3. Cost effectiveness of the Triple P population approach grounded in several sources of efficiency
Key References
Results of U.S. Triple P System Population Trial:Prinz RJ, et al. (2009) Population-based prevention of child maltreatment: The U.S. Triple P
System Population Trial. Prevention Science, 10, 1-12.
Cost considerations:Foster EM, et al. (2008). The costs of a public health infrastructure for delivering parenting and
family support. Children and Youth Services Review, 30, 493-501.
Mihalopoulos C , et al. (2007) Does the Triple P—Positive Parenting Program provide value for money? Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 41, 239-246.
Overview of Triple P and evidence base:Sanders MR (2008) Triple P—Positive Parenting Program as a public health approach to
strengthening parenting. Journal of Family Psychology, 22, 506-517.
Nowak C & Heinrichs N (2008) A comprehensive meta-analysis of Triple P—Positive Parenting Program using hierarchical linear modeling: Effectiveness and moderating variables. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 11, 114-144.
ESTIMATOR for cost savings (child maltreatment prevention) http://www.paxis.org/triplep