Creating warm, nurturing home environments is not easy, especially when confronted with the many challenges of daily life, and it has been widely acknowledged that all families, within or outside a “crisis mode”, need support.

More and more, reports echoing parents’ voices (Cooney, 2020) highlight that “parents are not ok”. Thus, the challenges related to translating evidence into practice on effectively supporting parents to provide nurturing care to their children (Britto et al., 2015) have been also amplified, as new needs have emerged, and new modes of support are needed.

This tailored brief, developed with the support of the Bernard van Leer Foundation, sets out to provide recommendations for policy makers and service providers to consider prior to designing and implementing parenting support policies and programs. This brief also emphasizes the necessary factors that can bring parenting support programs to scale sustainably.