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April 2005:
VISIT TO NORWAY BY MANUEL MANRIQUE
Manuel Manrique, the UNICEF representative for Colombia and Venezuela, accompanied by Nicoletta Armstrong, the ICDP international consultant for Colombia, came on a two day visit to Oslo on 26 and 27th of April, to attend several meetings with the ICDP board. He visited the Foreign Ministry in order to present the ICDP work carried out with UNICEF's support, over the past 4 years in Colombia.
He recommended the ICDP program as a potentially significant contribution to building peace and harmony in the world. To read about ICDP in Colombia click here. For the summary of the professional evaluation of the Narińo project click here.
SCANDINAVIAN NETWORK MEETING IN OSLO
The meeting took place 21. –22. April 2005, and was the third meeting of people representing ICDP activities in Sweden, Denmark and Norway. The first was held in Sweden in 2003, last year the meeting was in Denmark. From Sweden 11 people participated, from Denmark 10, and from Norway 26. The participants represented a variety of professional backgrounds such as health nurses, preschool teachers, teachers, special educators, social workers, psychologists, working in different fields such as health services, educational services, child protection, child psychiatry, habilitation/ rehabilitation services, special education services, pedagogical-educational services, higher education, training and research at universities. What all participants had in common is that ICDP’s professional philosophy and practical approach is central to their work with children, youth and families as well as to their involvement in teaching and training of professionals at different levels and in different fields in their respective countries.
ICDP is now legally and formally registered in all three countries, and is becoming known, accepted and implemented in different professional contexts. In Norway ICDP is in the process of being implemented in a new national parent counselling programme, and the Swedish government is considering to do the same. In Denmark several local projects are under development in different parts of the country, and CVU (Centre of further education) in North Jylland has adopted ICDP ‘s philosophy as a guideline for the centre’s training and professional development programmes.
The main objective of these Nordic meetings is exchange of experience related to professional use of the ICDP approach in the work with children, youth and families with different needs and in different contexts. The programme of this meeting contained interesting presentations of activities with children and families with special needs, children from minority families, children under child protection, children with physical or serious social-emotional needs, etc. Presentations highlighted projects at different administrative levels; regional, municipality, institutional levels. In addition there were workshops and in dept presentation and discussion.
The general impression was that ICDP is today becoming a widely accepted and highly appreciated way of working in the Scandinavian countries, and it is in the process of being introduced to new and challenging professional fields.
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