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What is the Take 3 Programme?

The Take 3 Programme is a comprehensive evidence-based parenting programme for working with groups of parents of 10-18 year-olds, and especially with parents of at-risk or vulnerable young people. It is also used extensively for one-to-one interventions with parents and can be used online.

Take 3 was originally created for use within the Youth Justice context and then developed over an eight-year period before publication in 2008, incorporating feedback from parents and facilitators so as to hone it down to ‘what works’. It was completely revised and updated in 2020.

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It is used throughout the UK by Youth Offending and Early Intervention teams, social workers, health visitors and other parenting professionals. The Programme has been independently positively evaluated and is validated on the Government’s Commissioning Toolkit.

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Overview of the Programme

The Take 3 Programme is a parenting course in two parts for parents of young people aged between 10 and 18:

Part 1 – a basic course consisting of ten ‘core’ sessions
Part 2 – eleven extra ‘pick and mix’ sessions focusing on specific issues which can be added to the basic course

Take 3 has two main aims:

to improve relationships between young people and their families; and
to improve young people’s behaviour at home, at school and in the wider community.

To this end, the objectives of the course are to equip parents with skills and strategies to:

nurture their young people by encouraging them and listening to them;
provide appropriate structure and boundaries for their young people;
take care of themselves so that they have more energy for their job of parenting and can also model self-care to their young people.

Young people behave better when they feel understood, when they have parents who are able to set authoritative boundaries and when their parents value themselves.

The course is supported by a comprehensive pack containing written material and video clips, and each session is accompanied by detailed instructions. These not only make it very easy for facilitators to use in a practical sense, but also provide readily accessible background theory, which greatly supports practitioners in their work by enabling a deepened understanding of family dynamics and human behaviour.