The Family Advocacy Center, which opened in January 2010 has two major programs: the Child Sexual Abuse Clinic and the Child Abuse Prevention Program, which includes our parenting support programs.
'Type of support' consists of parenting support programs, early education programs and the so-called general youth care programs.
Parenting support programs are programs that, following Daly's (2013) definition, are aimed at supporting parents in the upbringing of their children.
For parenting support programs specifically, more than half of the interventions include the youngest age range (0 2 years) with a large increase in the last time-frame.
Looking at parenting support programs specifically, targeted preventive interventions dominate the field (50.8%%), although differences are not significant (p = 0.295, df = 6).
Triple P increasingly dominated the field of parenting support and this popularity may have "suppressed" the development and use of other parenting support programs, representing a certain bias within this field.
One program may have taken the place of what could have been several programs, which would have increased the number of parenting support programs after 2005 in this study, thereby influencing our results.
The suggested turn to parenting implies a third-order change in which the goals of child and family policy change, with a shift towards preventive support of parents (as opposed to curative support), and in which newly developed instruments (parenting support programs) play a key role (see also Daly 2010).
In addition, municipalities should consider various municipal alternatives for parenting support programs.
This requires strong parenting support programs and access to health, education and social services as well as to child-sensitive justice and social welfare systems.
In lieu of our findings, the strengthening of parenting support programs organized by the city currently is further recommended to address mothers' persistent concerns on risk, and potential conflicts arising from differing risk perceptions within the family.
