1997 Step UP Programme was started. Developed in 1997 by Greg Routt and Lily Anderson in King County, Washington State. Purpose: A collaborative intervention (involving juvenile courts, prosecutors, and family services) designed to stop adolescent abuse toward parents and foster safe, respectful family relationships. International Adoption: The U.S. model later inspired similar programs internationally, including in the United Kingdom starting around 2009
Fact of the day – 22nd October
Despite growing international CAPVA research, some groups of children and families remain almost entirely absent from published studies. A lack of research does not mean these families are unaffected.
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Fact of the day – 21st October
Research from Israel found that helping parents feel less helpless and more supported was associated with improvements in family interactions. Supporting parents’ confidence and wellbeing can be an important part of responding to harmful behaviour.
Source: Weinblatt & Omer (2008), Nonviolent Resistance: A Treatment for Parents of Children with Acute Behavior Problems
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Fact of the day – 20th October
New Zealand: Financial support services can help identify family violence. New Zealand’s Work and Income service has a Family Violence Intervention Programme. Staff receive training to recognise family violence and connect people with appropriate support.
Interesting fact: Identifying family violence is not solely the responsibility of police, social workers or healthcare professionals. Welfare and employment-related services can also play an important role. This is a wider family violence initiative, rather than a CAPVA-specific programme.
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Fact of the day – 19th October
MYTH: “If we understand the child’s needs, the parent’s needs come second.”
FACT: Supporting a child should never require minimising a parent’s fear, exhaustion or need for safety. Both can matter at the same time.
Feedback we have received from the PEGS and VisAble events on the 14th of October reflect this; how it is possible to hold space for both a child’s distress and a parent’s right to feel safe, particularly in their own home? This can be difficult in practice, as parents are often expected to minimise their own needs, prioritise those of their child, and work with services to support their child around behaviour change.
…So where does that leave the needs of the parent? Who supports the parent? What does caring for the parent look like when they are living with significant harm? Validation, recognition, and compassion for those parenting young people who are engaging in these harmful behaviours is so important, and what that might look like for families matters.
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18th Oct – Fact of the day
In a non-representative Australian survey of more than 5,000 young people aged 16–20, 20% reported having used violence against a family member. Among those reporting family violence, 51% reported violence towards their mother, 37% towards their father and 68% towards a sibling.
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17th October – fact of the day
Psychological aggression is reported much more frequently than physical violence.
A 2025 systematic review and meta-analysis involving around 25,000 participants estimated physical child-to-parent violence at 10%, compared with 82.6% for psychological violence within the studies measuring those forms. The psychological estimate should be used cautiously because studies defined and measured behaviours differently.
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16th October – fact of the day
MYTH: “Its just badly behaved children that need firmer consequences.”
FACT: The behaviour tells us what is happening hitting, shouting, threatening, controlling or damaging things. It doesn’t necessarily tell us why it is happening.
WHAT we see is the behaviour. WHY it is happening is where understanding begins.
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15th October – fact of the day
Helen Bonnick MBE was on the 2025 New Year’s Honours List for work supporting families living with child-to-parent violence
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14th October – fact of the day
Today is international child to parent abuse day!
Originally created by PEGS, October the 14th will be recognised by PEGS in England at the National Child to Parent Abuse Summit Child to Parent Abuse Summit 2026 | PEGS | PEGS; and VisAble in NewZealand CPVA conference Oct 2026 — VisAble
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