Parenting Within the Public Health System in Thailand Updates September- November 2022
Reporting by Amm Chutima
September/October 2022
September and October were busy for Parenting Within the Public Health System in Thailand!
Dr Sombat Tapanya and Dr Amalee McCoy at BNC
The Peace Culture Foundation and the National Institute for Child and Family Development at Mahidol University were thrilled to host the online webinar-style launch of the Thai Positive Parenting Community of Practice on 5 September. This is the first positive parenting community of practice in Thailand! Speakers at the launch included Dr. Sombat Tapanya, Dr. Panadda Thanasetkorn, and Dr. Amalee McCoy, as well Mr. Joel Borgstrom from our funders, the World Childhood Foundation. The event was well-attended by members of the community from NGOs, INGOs, academics, former government officials, social workers and parents.
You can learn more about the Thai Positive Parenting Community of Practice at their website: www.thaipositiveparentingcommunity.org.
Watch the launch webinar here
In September, we held meetings with various partners. Firstly, a meeting was held with Boromarajonani College of Nursing (BNC) in which we discussed an action plan for the training of BNC staff as facilitators. This meeting is the next step after the meeting in August when the Peace Culture Foundation and BNC agreed to have the nursing college be a Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH) training hub. Another meeting was held between Dr. Sombat Tapanya, Dr. Amalee McCoy, and Dr. Ora-orn Poocharoen, the director of the School of Public Policy, Chiang Mai University. In this meeting, we established the first-year project work plan and brainstormed the research plan and protocol for the literature reviews for a study on strategic planning for the sustainable and scalable integration of PLH in policy and service delivery in Thailand Project.
We were pleased to welcome Rowland Edet to our team. Rowland will be working with the GPI as an ECR. Lastly, we started focus group discussions for our study titled “Barriers to and Enabling Factors of Male Caregiver Engagement in Social Learning Theory-based Parenting Programmes in Northern and North-eastern Thailand”. Data collection will continue throughout September and October.
November 2022
The Peace Culture Foundation and the National Institute for Child and Family Development, Mahidol University hosted the second Thai Positive Parenting Community of Practice webinar on 7 November. Speakers included a representative from the Department of Women's Affairs and Family Development, Ministry of Social Development and Human Security, Childline Thailand 1387 and Step Ahead Foundation, speaking on topics such as the role of the government in supporting parenting, ending corporal punishment, and how family strengthening improves outcomes for children. Attendees included government officials, teachers, NGOs, social workers, doctors, psychologists, nurses, aftercare specialists, child protection workers, program coordinators and guardians interested in positive parenting.
You can view the recording here.
