Reports on a preliminary evaluation of the Metropolitan Family Intervention Service at the Victorian Parenting Centre, Melbourne, Australia. It presents an analysis of pre-post data collected from 589 mothers who commenced and completed parenting programs between 1999 and early 2003. Significant improvements were noted in measures of parental style, sense of competence, depression, anxiety, stress, and couple conflict. (Contains 13 references, 2 tables, and 4 figures.) (GCP)