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Overview

A joint venture between the university of Queensland and Griffith University, the Parents Under Pressure (PUP) program is an intervention specifically designed for use with multi-problem, high-risk families. The aim of the PUP program is to help parents facing adversity develop positive and secure relationships with their children in order to reduce problem child behaviours (where they exist), and promote a settled, nurturing and safe family environment.

 

The development of an online database was required to allow psychologists and supervisors to access a central system, managing the data from remote locations all around Australia.

 

Solution

Zeroseven worked with key staff at Parents Under Pressure, to ensure that the database met all the requirements and would become the central source of information for the disparate PUP agents. As well as providing a solution for the unique data requirements and detailed reporting, a key focus was ensuring the database has great usability as it's users will have varying levels of computing experience.

The development process included:

• Project scoping
• Creating the information architecture
• Developing wireframes of all key pages
• Database schema design
• Application development
• User-interface development
• Testing & deployment

Key features of the online database include:

• Multiple levels of user permissions levels
• In depth reporting functions, including multiple source graph creation, detailed text report creation
• Unique questionnaire scoring algorithms
• Custom purpose-built Flash user controls

Results

The Parents Under Pressure program team have now trained over 100 agents to use the database all across Australia who are now utilising the database to record and review data and create detailed reports. The central program team now have access to a growing store of data which they can use to refine the PUP program, to increase it's outcome at an individual family level.

 

Technology

Microsoft.NET, SQL Server, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash