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During 2006 ICDP continued
to cooperate closely with UNICEF, its main partner and sponsor since
2001, and its programme continued to spread throughout the provinces
of Boyacá and Nariño, with new project developments
in the Huila and Chocó provinces, as well as in the towns
of Medellín, Bogotá, La Tebaida, Manizales and Urabá.
In Huila the ICDP project
committee included the local government, 3 ministries, UNICEF and
Ecopetrol. Trained professionals from education, health and social
services applied ICDP in the area of prevention reaching 15,000
families. In Boyacá, workshops were held in nine towns attended
by 900 facilitators. There were several workshops for professionals
from Nariño. In Chocó, a core group was formed who
facilitated training of over 200 promoters who are gradually reaching
2000 families and children at high risk.
In Bogotá, 104
families that had recently abandoned the guerrilla movement received
ICDP psychosocial intervention over a period of 8 months; 7 persons
were selected and trained as ICDP promoters. This was a pilot project
in cooperation with the Defence Ministry and Bogotá municipality,
sponsored by the International Organization for Migrants (OIM).
The project showed significant impact by creating motivation, hope
and new space for empathic behaviour inside the families.
In Medellin, workshops
for professionals from the government programme "Buen Comienzo"
and the CINDE foundation were followed by projects with 350 vulnerable
families in marginalized areas of the city. The university Luis
Amigo included the ICDP programme inside their project of assistance
to families displaced by the civil war, reaching 300 families and
children. ICDP trainer Carolina Montoya supervised the project.
In La Tebaida intervention
involved preschool teachers and 70 mothers living in poverty, some
trained as promoters.
ICDP Colombia team: Nicoletta
Armstrong, Carmen Lucia Andrade, Claudia Marcela Rojas, Ayda Brigitte
Ramirez, Dora Lilia Aristizabal, Blanca Cecilia Garcia and Ricardo
Jiménez.
During 2007 the ICDP
programme “I am a person too”, continued to reach out
to families and children at risk in several projects, which developed
through cooperation with the local governments in the provinces
of Boyacá, Nariño, Huila and Chocó. ICDP was
also active in Medellín, Bogotá and La Tebaida.
In Boyacá ICDP
was coordinated with the active involvement of the wife of the governor.
Financial support was received through municipal councils. ICDP
expanded to 20 remote areas, focusing on indigenous communities
and those that suffered from violence due to armed conflicts. The
main ICDP messages were also spread through radio programmes, including
radio dramas. Trained were 2100 promoters and each promoter implemented
ICDP with about 10 families. Technical committees were set up to
sustain this work locally.
In Huila the project
committee includes the government secretariat, representatives from
education, health and ICBF (social services), UNICEF, Ecopetrol
and ICDP. ICDP is officially inserted in institutional work plans.
In April, at the ICDP accreditation ceremony, ICDP facilitators
told of their experiences in different areas of the province and
demonstrated the essence of ICDP through dance, music, poetry and
role play. The 154 facilitators and 1,408 promoters are mainly teachers,
nurses and social workers. The aim for 2008 is to strengthen the
work of promoters and secure sustainability on the community levels
by forming ICDP clubs run by local mothers.
In Bogotá the
project with families of ex-guerrilla fighters developed in cooperation
with the municipality and the International Organization for Migrants
(OIM), was completed and an additional workshop was held for a group
of psychologists involved in this work.
In Medellin the university
Luis Amigo continued to apply ICDP with families displaced by armed
conflict. In La Tebaida the ICDP model for teachers was successfully
tested out in the school Luís Arango Cardona. As a result
the school adopted the ICDP method.
Year 2008:
In 2008, in the Huila
province ICDP trained 142 teachers, nurses and social workers; 1400
promoters started their process of training. An evaluation study has
been initiated to establish the impact of the ICDP implementation in
this province. In the pre-intervention study 200 questionnaires were
randomly administered and 60 caregivers were filmed in interactions
with their children. The post-intervention study will be carried out
in 2009. -In the province of Chocó, in the capital Quibdó, ICDP
held workshops for groups of new facilitators. The UNICEF regional
office continued to coordinate the work of 70 ICDP trained agents
whose work has been reaching hundreds of families at risk, many
living in remote and guerrilla controlled areas. A new development
is the cultural adaptation of the ICDP materials for working with
the Embera indigenous community. -In the province of Nariño, a new
group of 30 health professionals received training. - In the
province of Boyacá ICDP has been present since 2005. The ICDP
developments received support from the local government and three
local ministries. The program spread to 123 towns and for this work
Boyacá received the Colombian national award for human rights in
2008.
-In Medellín, the
capital of Antioquia, ICDP trainers at the FUNLAM University have been
active since 1997. During 2008 they started cooperating with ICDP
facilitators from the FAN organization reaching 4000 children. -In
Alto Naranjal, near Cordoba, in the province of Quindío, the ICDP
sensitization meetings took place throughout 2008 with families from
the Embera Chami indigenous community. The families started to discuss
their own behaviour towards their children and also towards each
other, and gradually managed to make positive changes, reducing
violence in the community.
Year 2009
There are 1986
trainers and 16, 457 facilitators who implement ICDP reaching
children, youth and families through social services, education and
health networks, and to a minor extent through local
non-governmental organizations. The main focus in 2009 was in the
following areas of the country:
HUILA: ICDP is
present since 2006. In 2009, 147 trainers and 1417 facilitators
(teachers, nurses and social workers) implemented ICDP in all 37 towns
of the department, reaching 65,750 children. Some of the facilitators
hold positions on local councils and are thus partaking in the
decision making processes about social policy and program
implementation at municipal level. The UNICEF sponsored evaluation of
the ICDP project in Huila showed it to be cost effective and that ICDP
had a positive impact on participants, both on parents and the
professional caregivers. Parent-child interactions were observed,
filmed and compared in control and experimental groups, pre and post
intervention, showing in the post analysis of the experimental group
an increase in sensitive behavior towards children (according to the 8
ICDP criteria for good interaction), whereas in the control groups
behavior remained similar or decreased in quality. Pre and post
questionnaires and interviews using 222 informants confirmed the
positive changes and the high relevance of ICDP for the work of all
local networks involved.
BOYACÁ: ICDP implementation by the Education Ministry, the Health
Ministry and the Secretariat for Human Development is a permanent
ongoing activity for 5 years now, promoting mental health and good
relationships throughout the department of Boyacá, in well over 100
000 families so far. The number of families reached through the health
sector is increasing every year and in parallel more personnel is
getting trained so that there can be a follow up, as well as
evaluation of the work accomplished. The focus in 2009 was on
strengthening the positive image of the father with additional
activities designed for that
purpose.
NARIÑO : The ICDP
program has been sustained in this department since its first
implementation in 2002. In 2009 ICDP Colombia offered supervision and
refresher workshops for psychologists from the health
network.
CHOCÓ: ICDP has
continued to spread throughout this department for 3 years now,
gaining access to most remote areas affected by the guerrillas; ICDP
is coordinated by the UNICEF's regional office. The new focus is on
applying ICDP with the indigenous Indian population and therefore the
ICDP program has been adapted to their philosophy, cosmic vision and
cultural way of relating inside the family. The "8 ICDP guidelines
booklet for parents" has been translated in 4 Indian languages:
Katios, Embera, Waunaan and Tule.
MEDELLÍN: The FAN
organization counts with 100 ICDP facilitators, who have been trained
since 2006. In 2009 students at a government institution called SENA,
received ICDP training and the ICDP practical tasks with children
complemented their theoretical studies about child development.
Training was also given to 30 teachers from the Carala Cristina
organization working in a marginalized area of the city. Two more
groups were formed in ICDP: 40 teachers from the Los Alamos institute
working with special needs children and 40 community leaders who will
implement ICDP with 800
children.
Two ICDP trainers at FUNLAM University have been active since 1997. In
2009 they trained 127 youth leaders linked to the project called
“Semilleros Infantiles” developed by the Medellín city Secretariat for
Social Development.
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