The FCU is complementary to existing family intervention programs in its focus on supporting specific parenting skills. Yet in other ways, it is radically different. For example, for families showing some risk, various intervention options are available, and relatively brief and focused interventions are provided that specifically target family needs, such as limit setting or positive behavior support. Although the interventions’ curricula are similar in content to those of well-established family intervention programs (e.g., Forgatch & Patterson, 2010), most families engage in only one to three sessions of parent training, as indicated by the assessment. If effective, this adaptive and tailored strategy is clearly cost efficient, especially when it is implemented at a community level. It is worth noting that in our study, only a small percentage of the families received intensive support, that is, engaged in more than 10 sessions following the FCU (14.5% at age 2, 13.8% at age 3, 12.7% at age 4, and 25.5% at age 5). Because of the low number of families that engaged in follow-up parenting services, it is difficult to analyze this
