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Child-Parent Center (CPC) is an early childhood prevention program established in Chicago in the late 1960s, and brought to notice by the Chicago Longitudinal Study, a prospective quasi-experimental evaluation of children born in 1979 or 1980, some of whom – the experiment group – attended CPC between 1985 or 1986.
Tests in Australia on the effectiveness of the Family Risk Factor Checklist screening questionnaire have highlighted the difficulties parents and teachers alike face when they attempt to predict which children are most prone to mental health problems.
Given the well-known barriers to implementing evidence-based programs, is it better to identify their discrete elements and trust practitioners to combine them in tailored packages depending on the needs of the child and family in question?