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October 2005:
ICDP SEMINAR IN BUKAVU, CONGO
The Norwegian organization "Pinsemenighetenes Ytremisjon" in cooperation with the Congolese organization "Celpa" invited ICDP to hold a training seminar in Bukavu.
A 4-day workshop was recently held for teachers and school-leaders on how to use ICDP in their daily work in schools. They found the ICDP program very useful especially in relation to physical punishment of children. There is so far no plan for following up in Congo.
NEWS FROM WEST- BENGAL, INDIA:
A ICDP seminar presented as "culturally independent competence-training for parents and professionals working with children" is planned by Karl-Peter Hubbertz, a psychologist and social worker, with 20 years experience of working in different counselling centres and child-guidance clinics in Germany. Since 1999, he is teaching Social Work at the University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg, Germany. He is a member of Indienhilfe and he is familiar with the partners of Indienhilfe in West-Bengal and is now preparing the ICDP seminar for 2006.
Dr Hubbertz writes:
“After 12 years teaching in school I realized that I can see and understand every child as a special and particular person!” This statement comes from one of the teachers in the Centre for Child Workers of Rural Health Development Centre (RHDC) in Malda, who are working there with children from poor families. It is one example for the positive feedback and learning-motivation which was aroused during an introduction-workshop on ICDP in Malda. People said: This is really new for us – we never looked at children in this way!
In December 2004 and January 2005 there were two introduction-workshops in ICDP in West-Bengal. They were held in Athgara and Malda, each lasting three days. Participants were social workers, teachers, health workers, medical doctors and other professionals working in child development-centres, children’s homes, schools, health education or with self-help-groups of mothers. Most of them wanted to continue their learning-process in ICDP!
ICDP is working in a community-based way by training and mobilising resource persons in local networks and organisations to spread the programme further to local caregivers. Through this approach the promoters of ICDP are able to reach more caregivers, families and children at risk than it would be possible in a traditional institutional or clinical approach employed by many NGOs working in this field.
We are planning now one more extended seminar on ICDP in February 2006, which is held for the professionals from different NGOs sponsored by and cooperating with Indienhilfe. It is planned to prepare the seminar together with two or three other key-persons which will then take over the role of co-leaders. Participants should be always one pair of professionals from each project in different regions of West-Bengal who can cooperate as colleagues and conduct an ICDP-course in their own field. Preferably, this should be always one female and one male colleague in order to establish good contacts with mothers and fathers. It is important that these pairs have enough time and space in their daily professional work to implement and conduct an ICDP-course in their own field. For this purpose, they should have the possibility to visit 3 follow-up meetings with other participants in the region during the next months. On the whole, there should not be more than 16-18 participants.
The seminar shall last one week and shall take place in SKC Kolkata. Aim of the seminar is to teach a structured ICDP-programme for working with groups of parents and other caregivers, which consists of twelve training-sessions and covers many practical exercises in accordance with the twelve-Meetings Agenda explained in detail in the ICDP Manual for Promoters. In September 2006 there will be a follow-up seminar for the same group, supervising the work of the participants and reflecting their practical experiences with ICDP.
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