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Recognition for The Incredible Years Programs

The Incredible Years programs have won numerous awards, examples of which include:

SAMHSA's Science and Service Awards 2009: Mental Health Promotion

The Science and Service Awards is a national program to recognize community-based organizations and coalitions for exemplary implementation of evidence-based services.
Read more on the SAMHSA website

For more than 100 years, Amherst H. Wilder Foundation has combined direct service, research, and community development to address the needs of the most vulnerable people in Minnesota’s Ramsey County. Wilder introduced Incredible Years Program to the community in 2004. Implementation results between 2005 and 2008 demonstrate improvement for both parents and children participating in the Incredible Years Teacher Classroom, Dina Small Group Therapy, and the Preschool BASIC Parent Programs.
Read more about this implementation

Department of Health and Social Services, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention

The Incredible Years Program selected as a Model Program and listed in the National Registry of Effective Prevention Programs (NREPP).

Lisa St. George (fourth from right), Administrative Director of The Incredible Years, accepting the Model Program award from the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention in Washington D.C. on May 17th, 2001.

Also pictured from left: Major General Arthur T. Dean, Chairman and CEO, Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America; Dr. Ruth Sanchez-Way, Director, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention; Hope Taft, First Lady of the State of Ohio; Dr. Joseph H. Autry, III, Acting Administrator, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; Edward H. Jurith, Acting Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy; Rear Admiral Kenneth Moritsugu, MD, MPH, US Deputy Surgeon General; and Dr. Lewis Gallant, Executive Director, National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors.

St. Vincent Family Centers

St. Vincent Family Centers has been awarded the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA) 2008 Science and Service Award for Mental Health Promotion. St. Vincent Family Centers was recognized for its implementation of the evidence based, Incredible Years Program.
Read the article (PDF)

Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Program (OJJDP)

The Incredible Years parent, child and teacher programs  were selected for dissemination by the United States Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) as an early violence prevention program.
Read the article

Blueprints Model Program

The Incredible Years was selected as a model program by the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado at Boulder.
Read the Fact Sheet

The National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP)

Intervention Summary of Incredible Years Programs (updated review as of 8/2007)

Mental Health Research Scientist Award

In addition to program awards, Professor Webster-Stratton herself is the recipient of the prestigious National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Award.

The Lela Rowland Award 2002

In May 2002 one of our certified mentors, Dr. Charles O. Tingley, Jr. who brought our parent, teacher and child training programs to his agency -- Northeast Occupational Exchange -- received the Lela Rowland Prevention Award from the National Mental Health Association. 

The Lela Rowland Award 1997

The Incredible Years parenting program was selected as the winner of the best prevention programs of 1997 by the National Mental Health Association.

The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)

As exemplary and one of the most promising early interventions for preventing delinquency in the United States.

American Psychological Division 12 Task Force

The Incredible Years programs are recommended by American Psychological Division 12 Task Force as a well-established treatment for children with conduct problems.

Chambless

The Incredible Years parenting programs are recommended by the American Psychological Association Task Force as meeting the stringent "Chambless criteria" for empirically supported mental health intervention for children with conduct problems.

 

 

Overview of the Incredible Years Programs

Young children need developmentally appropriate and nurturing responses from parents and teachers that will prevent more serious problems, repair problematic relationships, and help them develop the social-emotional skills they need to succeed in life.
Parent Training Program (PowerPoint PDF)
Child Training Program (PowerPoint PDF)
Teacher Training Program (PowerPoint PDF)

Helping Young Aggressive Children Beat the Odds: Parents, Children, Teachers and Dinosaurs

The University of Washington 2006 Annual Faculty Lecture by Carolyn Webster-Stratton, PhD.
Watch the video

 
 


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