Young children rely on their caregivers to provide safety, comfort, and support. When families are navigating stress, adversity, or other challenges, responding to a young child’s needs can be more difficult. The ABC intervention builds on caregivers’ strengths and resilience, helping them strengthen nurturing, responsive interactions that support secure attachment and healthy development.

Any parent, primary caregiver, or legal guardian who has a child or children between 3 and 48 months can participate in ABC. Some locations also have an adapted ABC program available that can start as early as the 3rd trimester of pregnancy or at birth. To participate, please visit our Find a Parent Coach page.

• ABC is a 10-session program: one hour per week for 10 weeks.

• ABC is a home-visiting program, which means parent coaches come to your home to partner with you and your child. It may also be possible to complete sessions virtually through video conferencing or Facetime.

• An ABC parent coach will talk with you about you and your child, share videos and examples of common parenting experiences, and also provide you the opportunity to reflect on your own interactions through video from the previous week.

• Most importantly, the ABC parent coach will talk with you about “In the Moment” interactions between you and your child during sessions, highlighting the ways you are nurturing and playing sensitively with your child during session.

• Everyone is welcome! It is encouraged to include all caregivers and other family members and children in the sessions if possible.

• ABC is tailored to each individual family, but ABC is also backed by scientific evidence and effectiveness in diverse communities across the globe. Read more about our research  and our community-responsive implementation approach.