Building Foundations for Children's Lives

invest in play® is an international not-for-profit organisation. Our mission is to support children and their caregivers, using compassionate and culturally sensitive, evidence-based strategies that are easy to implement and scale, cost-effective and sustainable for services to deliver.

Research-based interventions that are easy to scale

Sharing the invest in play® Parent and Teacher Programmes is the core of our mission. We do this in multiple countries by:

Using evidence-based strategies that support caregiver-child play, attachment, predictability and consistency.
Creating cost-effective and easy-to-scale programmes that strengthen adult-child attachment, well-being, emotion regulation and children’s social-emotional development.
Helping all children to reach their full potential: neurodiverse children, e.g. who are autistic, have ADHD, and neurotypical children, anxious children and those with challenging behaviour.
Co-creating culturally relevant materials in each country and community.
Training and educating professionals to deliver iiP programmes with high quality and fidelity.
Supporting sustainable and scalable implementation plans by training local iiP Supervisors and Trainers.

Creating cost effective and easy-to-scale programmes that work to help children reach their full potential.

Supporting children and their caregivers, using practical, compassionate, and evidence-based strategies.

Offering high quality 3-day trainings that prepare facilitators to deliver the iiP programme with parents.

Scaling and prices

Delivering the iiP training to anyone working in mental health, social services, education, family support, and other caring professions.

Supporting neurodiverse populations with modules that enhance the iiP Core Programme.

Implementing evidence-based strategies that support caregiver-child play, attachment, predictability and consistency.

Supporting sustainable and scalable implementation plans by developing local iiP Supervisors and Trainers.

Scaling and prices

Engaging in research and programme evaluation in collaboration with international teams.

Training professionals to deliver iiP programmes with high quality and fidelity

Co-creating culturally relevant materials in each country and community.

How do I become an iiP Facilitator?

iiP offers high quality 3 day trainings that prepare facilitators to deliver the iiP programme with parents. The training is appropriate for anyone working in mental health, social services, education, family support and other caring professions.

You can book places on iiP workshops, master classes and supervision.

Parent Book

The Six Bricks Parenting book is written to support children and their caregivers using practical and compassionate strategies that have been proven to work over many decades. It provides an introduction to the Six Bricks for Kids and can be read on its own to provide a new framework for parent-child interactions.

It is also used as the text for our 12 week parent intervention.

Understanding ADHD

ADHD is neurodevelopmental. People with ADHD have brains that work differently from people without ADHD.

ADHD brings both challenges and strengths.
ADHD is not something to get rid of. It is a part of someone’s personality.

There are strategies that people with ADHD can use to cope with challenges. And strategies that caregivers can use to help their children with ADHD to understand these challenges and cope better.

Parents and Teachers

Understanding Neurodiversity

Both neurodiverse and neurotypical children think and behave in ways that are valid ways of being in the world. Unfortunately, many school environments and our expectations, are often set up to accommodate neurotypical individuals, so it can be much harder for neurodiverse children to cope.