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The work in Macedonia
started in September 1999, in cooperation with the ‘Center
for Crisis Psychology’ in Bergen and UNICEF in Skopje. ICDP
programme implementation became an important component of the post
emergency work, as a way of enhancing the psychosocial aspects of
the care given to children.
The first 7 months one
ICDP consultant worked fulltime in the project, and since May 2000
there have been regular 3 monthly visits by ICDP consultants.
UNICEF made an agreement
directly with ICDP in November 2000.
ICDP programme was implemented
throughout Macedonia by training staff in institutions working with
children and adolescents, local centres for social work, family
centres, refugee centres, and patronage nurses. It was used in sensitising
parents in the process of divorce, single mothers, parents of disabled
children, parents of juvenile delinquents, foster parents, adoptive
parents and scout leaders.
ICDP Macedonia was registered
in December 2001 in order to coordinate the work and make it sustainable
long term. As result of the training there is a network of over
100 local facilitators using the ICDP program in their work. A conference
took place in February 2002 to consolidate the network through sharing
and analysing members’ project experiences.
In March 2003, 8 patronage
nurses from the health sector and 12 staff from institutions for
children and adolescents became qualified trainers, bringing the
total number of trainers to 32.
At the end of March,
the UNICEF sponsored project ended, and ICDP Macedonia took over
the responsibility for implementation and follow up of the country
program.
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