Parenting Together Project (PTP)

Variety of Behavioral Health Settings

An educational intervention for first-time parents that focuses on the development of fathers’ knowledge, skills, and commitment to the father’s role in parenthood. The program’s goals are to increase mothers’ support and expectations for the fathers’ involvement; to foster co-parental teamwork in the couple; and to have the couple deal more constructively with contextual factors such as work and cultural expectations. The intervention has eight 2-hour sessions that are spread out between the second trimester of pregnancy and five months postpartum. 

Focus Population
Parents
Target Problems or Risk Factors
General Risk, Parenting Skills
Level of Intervention
Selective
Settings in Which Program Can Be Delivered
Behavioral Health Organization or Agency, Community, Social Service Agency, including public and private agencies, group homes, and shelters
Latinos in Participant Samples
No Information
Type of Program
Generic
Registry
CEBC
Strength of Evidentiary Support
1-Star (⭐) CEBC - Father Involvement Interventions
Cost of the Program
No
Availability of the program in Spanish and/or Portuguese
No Information
Registry URL
http://www.cebc4cw.org/program/parenting-together-project/
Contact Information
William J. Doherty, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
E-mail: bdoherty@umn.edu
Phone: 612-625-4752 or (612) 625-4227