News from Lisbon

"A Idade de Armario" is a book written by two ICDP trainers, Penelope Villar and Rodrigo Abreu, published by Esfera dos Livros.

News from Brazil

New developments in Brazil include the evaluation of the 4-year project, which was developed together with Save the Children and the start of a new project by the ICDP team from the local partner organization ACARI.

Working on oneself first

Our group realized that in order to apply ICDP properly with children, one needs to work on oneself first.

Expansion in Guatemala

The phase one of a new project by Plan has been accomplished in four months. The ICDP method was used as part of Plan's programme called "Care and Early Childhood Development” and it was implemented in 53 communities, reaching 1208 families.

ICDP positively evaluated

The article "Evaluation of the International Child Development Programme (ICDP) as a community-wide parenting programme", by Lorraine Sherr, Ane-Marthe Solheim Skar, Claudine Clucas, Stephen von Tetzner and Karsten Hundeide, was published in May, in the European Journal of Developmental Psychology.

First steps for ICDP in Japan

Setsuko Kobayashi is a Japanese psychotherapist who received ICDP training in England and has also participate in a workshop in Tokyo, which was held by visiting ICDP Danish trainers (photo above).

The aftermath of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami included both a humanitarian crisis and massive economic impacts. The tsunami created over 300,000 refugees and resulted in shortages of food, water, shelter, medicine and fuel for survivors. It is in this region that Setsuko Kobayashi decided to implement the ICDP programme and the ICDP meetings took place in Tomecho, Tome-City, Miyagi prefecture, in the Tohoku region on the Honshu island.

ICDP for future teachers

The ICDP training held at the college for teachers in Envigado, Colombia, received very good reception from the 40 participant students. The ICDP course was led by Carolina Montoya, an experienced ICDP trainer from the FUNLAM university in Medellin. Click here to see images from the closing ceremony: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HN5ZhuJQdA&feature=youtu.be

ICDP at UCN, Denmark

On the 23 and 24th of May, the University College North (UCN) hosted the ICDP Nordic network conference for 130 participants. It was held in beautiful surroundings near Aalborg, Denmark. The theme of the conference was "Slow and ICDP".

ICDP at UCN: The ICDP training activities at the UCN have primarily been targeting teachers and pedagogues, but other groups have become interested in becoming involved...

ICDP for fathers

During 2012, a small scale pilot project, called “Fathers in close relations”, was carried out in Oslo, Norway. The evaluation report was finished in March 2013.

ICDP in Ghana

A new project started to develop in the capital Accra focused on upgrading the quality of care in two orphanages.

New developments in Antratsit

ICDP held its first workshop in Antratsit, a city in Eastern Ukraine, located in the Luhansk oblast (region).

ICDP and Cero a Siempre

The ICDP programme is part of the government initiative "Cero a Siempre" in the department of Quindio in Colombia.

ICDP in the football arena

An ICDP pilot project was set up to find out whether the ICDP method could strengthen relationships between young athletes and their coaches.

Mozambique report

The ICDP project in Mozambique works in the area of competence building of the civil society, organizations and networks, in order to promote healthy development and protection for children.