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ICDP training started in 2001 with a series of public conferences and seminars held in Santo Angelo and Aguas de San Pedro.

From July till December 2002, an ICDP project was carried out in Santo Angelo, by Afonso and Ignes Luft, both teachers, as well as directors of the CELUAN foundation, in charge of a preschool, primary and secondary school. The couple has also been working for two years in the poor neighbourhoods, Centro Sul and San Carlos, developing programs for young people. Having noticed lack of motivation and lack of confidence in families they had contact with, they decided to use the ICDP program to activate and inspire the parents to improve their relationship with their children and the quality of family life in general.


ICDP workshop in Santo Angelo

Groups of community mothers were trained as ICDP promoters and they reached 360 families by the end of 2003. An additional feature of the project in 2003 was the training delivered to teenage young people, who afterwards applied in practice the key principles of the ICDP programme in creative play activities with younger children.


Some of the participants in the project

The project evaluation was conducted in one to one interviews, focus group interviews, as well through written questionnaires with facilitators and mothers. It showed that: 1. Parents developed confidence in their ability to bring up children. 2. There was an increase in the parents' ability to express positive emotions to their children. 3. Parents developed interest in their children and are now spending more time in dialogue and play with them. 4. Parents now feel motivated to do projects with others in their community. They started participating in sawing, gardening, cooking and craft projects.

In 2004 a new project was started, sponsored by the Bernard van Leer Foundation, which involves training 127 persons as ICDP facilitators in 16 preschools, as well as sensitizing children’s parents.

During 2005 Afonso Luft, completed the ICDP training project in Santo Angelo. He trained 61 facilitators and 226 promoters, who put the ICDP programme into practice with 2717 caregivers and 4308 children. The evaluation conducted in focus group interviews with promoters and families was very positive.

In 2006 negotiations were started for new project developments piloting the ICDP methodology in the area of prevention, with the municipalities of Florianopolis, Biguaçu, São José and Palhoça. The ICDP Manual was revised and updated.

n 2009, ICDP was implemented in 5 schools, sponsored by the Giruá municipality. The team of pedagogues that developed competence in ICDP became responsible for further training of all school staff. In addition, a group of community workers was trained who implemented the ICDP program with 200 families of the school children. ICDP proved to be a strategy capable of helping children who are underachieving due to lack of support from their home environments. The experience was so positive that it attracted interest from other municipalities to follow suit.

Year 2010:

ICDP IN FORTALEZA

In September, ICDP trainer Eleazar Luft started new cooperation with IPREDE in Fortaleza  by holding a workshop for members of  their technical team. IPREDE was formed in 1986 and is working in the area of nutrition and childhood development. Their intention is to launch a program for their municipality using the ICDP methodology as an official part of their program.

NEW PROJECT IN PERNAMBUCO

ICDP has started cooperation with Save the Children Fund in Recife, working on a multi-institutional project in the semi-arid region of Pernambuco and Bahia states in North East Brazil. The project is sponsored mainly by the European Community.  During the first two and a half years of the project new models for integrated services for early childhood development will be created, implemented, and evaluated. After that, these experiences will be analysed, documented, published and shared in a variety of existing networks for child survival, education and protection.                                    

The action is targeted at the three following groups:             

1. 52,400 Children under five from poor and excluded populations, and their caregivers;                     

2. Non-State Actors and Local Authorities in 36 municipalities in Pernambuco and Bahia states;

3. National, international -and European- networks and forums on early childhood development, education, child rights and child survival

The community groups will receive an initial training from the different partner organizations. The training will cover three thematic areas: a) Care and Psychosocial Development in Early Childhood (ICDP); b) Health and Nutrition in Early Childhood (CNMP); c) Protection of Child Rights and Combating Domestic and Sexual Violence Against Children (CENDHEC).

 

A group of 22 professionals, mainly educators, psychologists and social workers from an NGO called ACARI are this year being trained in ICDP, by attending workshops led by Nicoletta Armstrong. They have already started to implement ICDP with families and children linked to local day centres, schools and preschools and are also beginning to train professionals in charge of the program called Mãe Coruja, which provides health education, literacy classes and a variety of life skills to pregnant women. ICDP  is currently being introduced in 19 towns. Polyanna Magalhães from Save the Children office in Recife is coordinating this initiative.

Link to Save the Children Brazil: http://www.fundabrinq.org.br/dotnetnuke/como-atuamos/programas-e-projetos/programa-crianca-com-todos-os-seus-direitos/parceiros.aspx

 

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