Evaluating Tresillian’s support program

HTI is working with Tresillian, Australia’s largest early parenting service, to evaluate their innovative program supporting vulnerable parents and their children aged 0 – 3 years.

HTI will be evaluating Tresillian’s Parent-Child Nurture and Regulation group which aims to support parents who may be impacted by cumulative stress and circumvent the intergenerational transmission of attachment trauma.

Bayesian Adaptive Trials

HTI’s Tools team are using Bayesian Adaptive Trials (BATs) to measure improvements in parental disturbances of self-organisation and parent-child relationships, and test what may help break intergenerational cycles of psychosocial disadvantage.

BATs are a rigorous and efficient framework for social policy impact evaluation, which uses AI algorithms to synthesise and learn from a range of different data sources, allowing researchers to gain insights in real time and adapt or change as needed.

HTI researchers can rigorously assess what works, so that Tresillian can focus its efforts on interventions that have the most impact.

The funding for this project was awarded through Paul Ramsay Foundation’s Experimental Evaluation Open Grant Round, which funds for purpose organisations to evaluate their initiatives to build evidence on achieving better outcomes for children, young people, families and people experiencing disadvantage.