CFAs: Enhancing Family and Child Mental Health through Parenting Support Services (Greece)

Deadline: 28-Jul-2025

The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has launched the Family and Child Health Promotion Program.

Under this framework, UNICEF and the Ministry of Health aim to enhance family mental health by raising awareness about positive parenting, providing parents with broadly focused universal parenting support and targeted interventions, and building the capacity of professionals in health, social services and other professionals with expertise in child and adolescent development, and family support practices.

Pillars

The National Programme entails three key intervention pillars which include:
- Promotion of family and child health through the strengthening of the paediatric framework,
- Promotion of adolescent health and menstrual hygiene, and
- Promotion of youth mental health, with a focus on addressing youth self-harm.

Sectors and Areas of Specialization

Cross Sectoral Areas
- Training, capacity building and capacity development
Health
- Adolescent health, including sexual and reproductive health
Protection
- Child protection
- Gender based violence
Social Policy and Advocacy
- Policy advocacy

Geographic Focus

Greece
- Central Greece

Expected Results

The present Call for Expression of Interest aims to advance child and family health through improved parenting knowledge, skills and confidence, provision of psychosocial support to parents and awareness-raising activities under the following expected outcomes:
- Enhanced capacity of practitioners in positive parenting approaches and the implementation of the Triple P (Positive Parenting Program) framework.
- Improved psychosocial support for parents and children, including those with disabilities through the provision of parenting counselling.
- Increased public awareness and sensitization on positive parenting practices through targeted communication and outreach activities. Based on the results of a comprehensive review of evidence-based and impactful parenting interventions and in line with the objectives of the “National Programme for the Promotion of Family and Child Health in Greece’’, UNICEF in collaboration with the Ministry of Health will adapt and pilot the internationally acclaimed Triple P-Positive Parenting Program for the first time in Greece.