Embedding the Family Check-Up and evidence-based parenting programmes in Head Start to increase parent engagement and reduce conduct problems in young children

Parent engagement (i.e., enrollment, ongoing attendance, participation quality) remains a major obstacle to fully realizing the benefits of evidence-based preventive parent management training in community settings. We describe an approach to parent engagement that addresses the myriad motivational, cognitive, and pragmatic barriers parents face by embedding services in Head Start and applying a parent engagement model, the Family Check Up, as a...