Parents Plus are delighted to share our Annual Report and Financial Statements for 2025.
At the heart of our charity is a commitment to working alongside services, national organisations and government partners to improve outcomes for children, young people and parents, by expanding access to evidence based parenting support. Our collaborative model strengthens established services, local systems of support and enables services to respond earlier and more effectively to emerging difficulties, which means families across the country can access proven parenting programmes through services in their local communities, at their point of need.
To achieve this, we work primarily across three areas of impact: Research and Development, Building the Capacity of Organisations, and Direct Delivery.
1. Research and Development
A major milestone in 2025 was the publication of our second largescale meta-analysis, conducted by UCD School of Psychology Professor Alan Carr and Dr Claire Dwyer. This rigorous review provides compelling evidence of the effectiveness of the Parents Plus Programmes, delivering significant, measurable improvements for families, including reductions in child emotional and behavioural difficulties, reductions in parent stress, increases in parent satisfaction, and strong achievement of therapeutic goals.
As part of our commitment to continuing to meet the evolving needs of families and the services that support them, we launched the 2nd Edition of the Parents Plus ADHD Children’s Programme, grounded in a neurodiversity-affirming and strengths-based approach.
Major redevelopment of the Parenting When Separated Programme and the Early Years Programme continued with both due for launch in 2026.
As part of our ongoing Tusla funded Traveller Project, we launched a series of Traveller Specific Videos developed to complement the Parents Plus Early Years Programme (PPEY). This development represents an important collaboration to better engage and support parents from the Traveller community through culturally relevant and empowering resources.
Across all of this work, our focus remains on developing high-quality, evidence-based programmes that empower parents and strengthen family wellbeing.
2. Building Capacity of Organisations to Improve Outcomes for Families
Parents Plus works with hundreds of organisations across mental health, family support, disability and education services to strengthen their ability to achieve sustained, evidence-led improvements for families.
This work includes:
National Partnerships with established organisations to build their capacity to embed robust, evidence based interventions that improve family outcomes by providing effective parenting support. We do this by working with managers, training and supervising their teams, to deliver our programmes to parents, providing implementation support and conducting evaluations of impact.
HSE Children’s Disability Network Teams (CDNTs): Through partnering with HSE Disability over a two-year period, we trained and supported 210 clinicians across 82 CDNTs to deliver the Parents Plus Special Needs and Early Years Core Programmes. We also conducted an evaluation of this capacity building initiative with participating parents and clinicians which demonstrates strong improvements in parental confidence, child outcomes and CDNT practitioner skills.
Training and supervising individual practitioners via our scheduled trainings to deliver Parents Plus programmes in their own communities and at parents’ point of need.
In 2025 we trained over 1,000 professionals, in Ireland and the UK, delivered 407 supervisions and had over 450 registrations to our professional development events, including a Neurodiversity-Affirming Practice webinar
Through these partnerships and training initiatives, Parents Plus continues to build sustainable, community based capacity to support families at scale.
3. Delivering Parents Plus programmes online and directly to parents through national organisations
Parents Plus delivers our programmes online to parents through national organisations, ensuring that families who might otherwise face barriers to support can access high-quality, evidence-based parenting programmes when they need them most.
Between 2022 and 2025, with the support of the RTÉ Toy Show Appeal Transformative Grant, we scaled online delivery of our programmes to over 900 families through Parentline, ADHD Ireland and Family Carers Ireland, and improved outcomes for 2,000 families across Ireland experiencing complex needs, disability, separation and concerns about youth mental health.
The research study published in Spring 2025 emphasises robust findings on the effectiveness of the online Parents Plus programmes in improving outcomes for children, young people, parents and families.
Current direct delivery partnerships include:
HSE Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) delivering online Parents Plus Children’s ADHD Programme to families on CAMHS waiting lists, improving timely access to tailored support.
Collaboration with the HSE Wellbeing to deliver online Parents Plus Children’s Programmes and evaluate parents’ experiences of this type of support.
Delivery through Parentline, providing a highly accessible pathway for parents to join online Parents Plus programmes. Delivered by accredited facilitators, these groups consistently book out almost immediately further demonstrating the need for families.
Without doubt, all of this work is only possible with the entire Parents Plus community, and we would like to thank each and every one of you for your commitment to working together to improve outcomes for families
You can learn more about our work and impact together in 2025:
