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ICDP Projects with Chronological Order:

ICDP training and projects in cooperation with NGO ‘Fundacion Amanecer’ in Armenia:

1995 ICDP programme implemented with 90 families at risk in Jamundi, near Cali; 10 community workers (called FAMI mothers) linked to ICBF (Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar)) trained as ICDP facilitators

1995 project with mothers of the 25 disadvantaged children attending the ‘Semillitas’ preschool run by Fundacion Amanecer

1997 project with 500 families at risk in Jamundi; 20 FAMI mothers trained as facilitators

1997 project with 70 poor rural families near Armenia; 7 FAMI mothers as facilitators

2000 project with 40 displaced mothers from La Tebaida in the aftermath of the earthquake; 5 FAMI mothers trained as facilitators

2001 project with 120 displaced mothers from La Tebaida in the aftermath of the earthquake; 15 FAMI mothers trained as facilitators

2001 project with 20 parents linked to the ‘Semillitas’ preschool

2001 project with parents of 120 disadvantaged young people linked to programme ‘Fuerza Joven’; 10 young people trained as facilitators

ICDP training and projects in cooperation with university in Medellín; La Fundación Universitaria Luis Amigó – FUNLAM:

1997 training of staff working in children protection centres

training of professional people from institutions working with minors at risk of sexual abuse

1998 project and training in the institute called “Communidad Terapeutica Convivencial Luis Amigo”, working with drug addicted families; participation of a student from Norway

1998: training of teachers and students at FUNLAM, from the Department for Family Development (“Programme de Desarrollo Familiar”).

ICDP is integrated on permanent basis in the professional practice and in the overall intervention programme of the institute “Communidad Terapeutica Convivencial Luis Amigo”.

1999: training of pre-school directors and teachers

2000: qualified ICDP trainers established at FUNLAM; training of professionals in the Capuchin organization; project with families whose children (6-11 years) have behavioural problems at school;

2 projects through the FUNLAM university’s research department: 1) with adolescent mothers and 2) with 5 institutions that work in child protection.

2000: ICDP programme is inserted in the curriculum for students, of the department for families, at FUNLAM University

2001: training of social workers from ‘Colegio San Jose’ and project with parents and young people, families at high risk; participation of 2 students from Norway

2002: ICDP programme is inserted in the curriculum for students of the psychology department at FUNLAM

2002: training of 30 FAMI mothers and project reaching 200 families in Antioquia

ICDP training and projects in cooperation with the ‘Centre for Research’ of the ‘University of Antioquia’, in Medellín:

2002: ICDP training of 24 students and 6 professionals from the psychology department

2003-2004: ICDP inserted as a component of the project MILAGRO -‘Yo no soy desplazado, yo estoy desplazado’, implementation of ICDP with 1200 displaced families in 8 cities; this project is also a research study, led by the Head of the Research Department, Dr Eumelia Galeano, which will produce (in April 2004) an evaluation of the impact of ICDP on families and children

ICDP training and projects in cooperation with UNICEF:

2002: ICDP project reached families and children at high risk and/or displaced, in 26 towns in Colombia. UNICEF selected 150 experienced community workers to be trained as ICDP facilitators in 6 cities, Pasto, Popayan, Bogota, Calarca, Cucuta and Bucaramanga; facilitators trained 850 promoters who spread the program in their local communities. Community workers came essentially from two networks: ICBF (Istituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar) and Conferencia Episcopal (Catholic Church network). The planned project was to reach 6000 families but in practice it reached three times more due to the enthusiasm and voluntary work of trained facilitators and promoters. 20. 011 families and 62.783 children benefited from the program.

2003: In April, ICDP Colombia is legally registered as an NGO. Follow up refresher workshops were held for those trained in 2002, sponsored by UNICEF. A promotional video about the ICDP programme is produced in cooperation and sponsorship by UNICEF. ICDP materials were adapted and printed for wide scale use in Colombia in cooperation and sponsorship by UNICEF.

2004: ICDP in cooperation with UNICEF, project in the 64 town of the Nariño province; training agents from ICBF (social services and PAB (Plan de atención básica en salud, which is a health network) as 383 facilitators, 3.710 promoters and reaching 30.894 families, 111.544 children.

2005: ICDP- UNICEF-FONDO PARA LA ACCION AMBIENTAL cooperation, project in all of the 123 towns of the Boyaca province; training agents from ICBF, Education, Health and NGOs; trained were 904 facilitators, 4.992 promoters reaching 45.545 families, 149.000 children.

2006-2010: ICDP in cooperation with UNICEF, ECOPETROL and the government of the HUILA province developed a 3 year project training agents from health, education and social services; trained are 133 facilitators, 1.408 promoters, who are reaching each year 13.914 families and 48.700 children.

2006-2009: ICDP in cooperation with UNICEF developed a project for the province of Chocó, training professionals and agents from CINDE and ICBF networks; it is ongoing and planned to reach 4500 families by the end of 2008.

2006: ICDP is recruited by the International Organization for Migrants (IOM), the Bogota city government secretariat in cooperation with the Defense Ministry to undertake a psychosocial intervention with ex guerrilla families and children; 200 families were reached and 7 ex guerrilla persons trained as promoters.

2007-2009: - follow up training of health professionals from PAB network in the Nariño province.

- Training of psychologists who work with ex guerrilla families, contract between OIM and ICDP

2006 and ongoing: ICDP International consultant with trainers from ICDP Colombia undertook training in El Salvador (from 2006) and Guatemala (from 2007). In both countries ICDP is working in cooperation with UNICEF.

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