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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.
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