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Year 2006: ICDP chairman,
Professor Karsten Hundeide:
"2006 was
a year when fundamental changes in the ICDP foundation took place.
At the AGM it was decided to separate ICDP International from ICDP
Norway. The new ICDP Norway organization was legally established
with Ingeborg Egebjerg as chairperson, and Marianne Fjetland, Tove
Jeppson, Hilde Tornes, Mona Hannestad, Marianne Eriksen and Henning
Rye as board members. On the international board thanks was given
to long standing members who stepped down: Henning Rye, Markus Hoff
Berge, Helen Rønnaug Andresen, Wilbert Verheyen, Pedro and
Maria Teresa Mendes.
Over the years
the ICDP programme demonstrated international relevance and adaptability
to different target groups, so the board concluded that there was
no need for developing new programmes and the name of the Foundation
was changed from "International Child Development Programmes"
to "International Child Development Programme". In Norway
during 2006, in addition to the large scale implementation of ICDP
as a preventive project for children, the program was also used
with special target groups such as children with special needs,
parents and children under protection, parents in prisons, and mothers
with ethnic minority status. The ICDP booklet with the 8 guidelines
for good interaction was published in 6 new languages: Sami, Persian,
Russian, Kurdish, Albanian and Vietnamese. ICDP Norway will be cooperating
with the Ministry for Children and Family Affairs, replacing ICDP
International in this task. The Ministry employed two ICDP trainers,
Grete Flakk and Mona Hannestad, to coordinate the ICDP nationwide
project from their central office and is also sponsoring an ICDP
evaluation project which will assess the future impact of ICDP in
the country. Professor Lorraine Sherr, from the University of London,
is in charge of this evaluation, assisted by a team from the Ministry
and from ICDP. ICDP is in process of applying for tax exempt status
which is important for future fund raising. Fund raising is at present
our greatest challenge both internationally and nationally and it
requires assistance from professional people. The ICDP board recruited
new part time office staff, secretary Trine Gerlyng and treasurer,
Ylva Snekkvik."
PROJECTS:
ICDP pilot project
in the area of child protection took place in Oslo; ten social workers from 5 offices
were selected to be trained as ICDP facilitators applying the programme
with groups of mothers. In the evaluation sessions both the trained
social workers and parents found the ICDP programme useful in creating
more positive relationships with children and also among adults.
ICDP project
for minority groups: special feature of this work is that the ICDP
group meetings for
parents are run by persons from the minority groups in their native
languages. Each promoter is accompanied by one Norwegian professional
who takes a more passive role and assists the meetings without speaking,
except to answer questions relating to the Norwegian care and education
systems. In 2006 trained were 60 facilitators and 8 trainers.
The ICDP
project for parents with special needs children led by Hilde Tornes,
which started in 2005 and will end in the spring of 2007. Trained were 14 facilitators represented
by professionals from the "PPT" language centre and the
"Statped" pedagogy centre, as well as by the personnel
from health stations.
ICDP pilot
project for parents in prisons: facilitator level training was first given to 16 members of prison
staff and subsequently, due to the success of the programme, a new
group of 17 staff members from 6 prisons received training. Each
facilitator ran group meetings with 6-7 parents. In order to make
ICDP sustainable long term, 2 persons are currently being trained
as ICDP trainers and they will in the future run ICDP yearly courses
for prison staff.
Year 2007:
During 2007,
the newly formed board of ICDP Norway focused on forming a membership
association, which is still in process. Throughout 2007 ICDP Norway
participated in training programmes conducted by the Directorate
for Children, Youth and Family, but it also began organizing its
own training programmes for facilitators. In autumn the board arranged
a seminar for 30 ICDP trainers at Vettre, outside Oslo. The board
also hosted an ICDP Nordic meeting including participants from Norway,
Sweden and Denmark, who exchanged experiences between countries
on two topics: how to evaluate the impact of ICDP and how to organize
ICDP in a country.
- A new research
project has begun that will be carried out over a period of 3 years.
It will be evaluating the impact of ICDP in its national scale implementation
as the “Parental guidance programme”, which is already
operating through the Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth
and Family Affairs. The research project was requested and subsequently
sponsored by the Ministry of Children and Equality and it was granted
to ICDP International to conduct in cooperation with the University
College London and the Institute of Psychology at Oslo University.
- Another new
development includes piloting ICDP as part of an overall assistance
programme for asylum seekers, designed to start in 2008. Its targets
are caregivers/families placed in 5 asylums in different parts of
Norway. The ICDP project for asylum seekers is sponsored by the
Ministry of Children and Equality.
- The ICDP model
developed for use with caregivers from minority groups, which was
started in 2006 continued to develop and will be followed by a qualitative
research study.
- During the
year the training for caregivers in prisons took place through KRUS
(Correctional Service of the Norwegian Staff Academy).
- One of ICDP’s
most active geographical areas in Norway is the town of Stavanger
where there are 8 networks of trained facilitators. The ICDP programme
is implemented with groups of parents, including minority groups
through health stations, school-health services, kindergartens,
and as an integrated part of the introduction services at Johannes
læringssenter (learning centre which covers education for
both immigrant children and adults in compliance with Norwegian
law and regulations). The 8 networks meet twice a year to discuss
ICDP developments and to provide theoretical support to its members.
Year 2008:
For ICDP
Norway 2008 was a year for sharing, developing and structuring. The
Nordic network conference was held in Stavanger where 130 ICDP
trainers from Norway, Denmark and Sweden discussed the challenges of
the sensitisation process. ICDP Norway also
hosted a meeting to discuss ways of evaluating the ICDP program and
to compare the different organizational structures used in the 3
Nordic countries.
As in the previous years the ICDP program has
been spreading all over Norway through different fields of
implementation, and this work continued to be coordinated by the
Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth and Family Affairs. The
process of negotiating terms of cooperation with the Directorate is
ongoing.
There are 27 new trainers, as well as new facilitators in
37 municipalities. In Oslo the children's services 'bydelenes
oppveksttjenester' coordinate the ICDP implementation through health
stations, kindergartens and schools; other areas include families
with special needs children, as well as using ICDP through child
protection services for children at risk. In Oslo there are 170
facilitators, 60 are from minority groups. ICDP has permanent
implementation through the Kriminalomsorgens utdanningssenter (KRUS),
organization responsible for training of all prison staff in Norway.
An ICDP trainer is employed by KRUS to arrange yearly courses for
prison staff. Two large projects have been initiated: a 3 year
research project evaluating the ICDP national implementation and the
ICDP project with asylum seekers.
Two new DVDs were produced: one is
used for the recruitment of parents from minority groups, and the
other is on the subject of children with disabilities. On the
organisational level ICDP Norway has been making efforts to
establish an
adequate structure with sub-groups responsible for
different areas, such as program development, promotion, and
fundraising.
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Year 2009:
The formality of
splitting ICDP Norway from ICDP International was finalized in 2009
and an agreement was signed between the two foundations. ICDP
continued to spread all over the country. There are more than 1600
facilitators and 114 trainers. In May, in the outskirts of Oslo,
there was a network meeting for 50 trainers, who met to exchange
experiences and acquire new knowledge. A contract about the use of
the programme was signed between ICDP Norway and the
Directorate/Ministry (BLD).
Specialized
training was given to facilitators who run groups for parents with
special needs children. It was the first supplementary training
after the project finished in 2007. Facilitator level training
started for 16 new facilitators mostly from the Centre for
Child and Adolescent Mental Health. The ICDP pilot project for
asylum seekers finished and a new project with broader
implementation is being planned.
A new book was
produced by Karsten Hundeide called "ICDP for facilitators working
with parents from minority groups".
Year 2010
- The country
project coordinated by the Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth
and Family Affairs (BUFDIR) continued to develop.
- Target groups:
kindergartens, schools, child protection, parents and children from
minorities and refugee groups, parents in prison, parents with
children with special needs, ICDP in context of violence and youth.
There was a Trainers' Meeting which gathered around 70 trainers from
all over Norway, from Alta in the north to Grimstad in the south.
- ICDP at
University of Oslo: training was given to groups of students
- The evaluation
project was in its third and final year. Results to be presented in
2011.
- The positive
results of the evaluation study of the project in Mozambique was
publicly presented at NORAD's premises.
- A seminar was
held to explore the possibility of adapting ICDP as a virtual
learning program for master students abroad.
- A report and a
manual for working with minority groups was produced. A new DVD with
samples of adult-child interactions was also produced in 2010.
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