Our Background

​In November 1990, Save the Children Fund, UK (SCF) organised a symposium to share the results of its research on existing parenting education programmes in Jamaica. The findings were confirmed by over 150 delegates.
Despite efforts by many organisations over the years, the demand to deliver parenting education programmes had exceeded supply. Quality varied, and many suffered from the economic stringencies of the times
The few “experts” were stretched to provide guest speeches and run workshops, and many requests for help were not answered.
Save the Children Fund in collaboration with the Child Guidance Clinic, called together a cross-section of organisations with a mandate for family-building. They decided there had been enough talk - it was time for ACTION.
​ A task group was formed, a name chosen to reflect the intention to share the load as partners, and then some very specific tasks were set for a 2-year period. Parenting Partners was born. With the growing regional scope, we became Parenting Partners Caribbean. ​

3 Decades of
​Parenting Partners Caribbean

Networking and Collaborations
​An important component of the initiative was the regional networking and collaboration to address the Caribbean parenting concerns.
Three regional parenting conferences were convened.
  1. 1995 in Bridgetown, Barbados, under the theme “Parenting for Social Change”.
  2. 2001 in Castries, St. Lucia on the theme of “Partnering with Media for more Effective Public Education on Issues of Parenting.”
  3. 2007, St. John's Antigua saw  representatives from nineteen (19) Caribbean countries who spent a week shaping a 150-hour parent facilitator training course.
Over the years, we have expanded our partner list outside of organisations.  Partners now either represent an organisation, or bring a particular skill set and passion to Parenting Partners Caribbean.
Original Partner Organisations
The Child Guidance Clinic
Caribbean Child Development Centre
(CCDC), School of Continuing Studies,
University of the West Indies
3D Projects Ltd.(Dedicated to the Development of the Disabled)
HELP for Parents
Jamaica Foundation for Children
Operation Friendship
Save The Children Fund, U.K.
Voluntary Organisation for the Upliftment of Children (VOUCH)
Women's Centre of Jamaica Foundation​