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Implementation Examples Information and profiles from agencies using the Incredible Years Programs. Implementations are listed by country:
Location: Ontario Type of Agency: Toronto Public Health is a Public Health Agency mandated by provincial legislation to provide programs targeted at prevention of disease, health promotion and health protection. Since the inception of the program in 2004 we have delivered more than 100 programs reaching more than 1,500 parents. Over the past five years the retention rate for parents completing the program is 74 per cent.
Location: Denmark Type of Agency: Syddansk Universitet; CAST - Center for Anvendt Sundhedstjenesteforskning og Teknologivurdering
Location: Dublin, Ireland Type of Agency: Non-profit organization established to promote the use of evidence-based interventions for children and young people in Ireland. Archways is a national organization promoting and researching the use of evidence-based programs as an intervention for children and young people experiencing social, emotional and behavioral difficulties. The organization was established in 2007 to promote the roll-out and evaluation of the Incredible Years (IY) series in Ireland.
Location: New Zealand Type of Agency: New Zealand Ministry of Education.
Location: New Zealand Type of Agency: New Zealand Ministry of Education.
Photo: Teacher program group leaders, KiNZ Advisory Services, Auckland. (Click photo to enlarge) The Action Plan is a major shift in the management of disruptive behaviour in the education system. It provides proactive support for parents, teachers and schools that benefits everyone. The result will be better learning environments for all students and staff, improved teacher ability to support children’s behaviour and emotional needs, improved engagement in learning, a lift in achievement for students and an increase in teacher confidence and satisfaction.
Location: Auckland, New Zealand Type of Agency: The Werry Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health is a national centre. It is based in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the University of Auckland. It is multidisciplinary and multicultural. The aims of the Werry Centre are to improve the mental health of New Zealand young people.
Location: University of Tromsø, Norway Type of Agency: Mental Health Centre. 1999-2009 - Norway has a nationwide implementation of the Incredible Years, funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Health. The funding is based on political decisions and a result of the Norwegian health authority’s active search for evidence based methods for treatment of conduct problems in children. The first parent group was offered in the fall 1999.
Location: The West Bank Type of Agency: Bethlehem Holy Child Program (BHCP). Our mission is to provide therapeutic treatment and an alternative education for children in the Bethlehem region in the Holy Land who suffer from untreated mental health issues and exposure to intergenerational trauma.
Location: Coimbra, Portugal Type of Agency: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra This study intends to demonstrate the efficacy of the Incredible Years BASIC Parental Training Program as an intervention tool with Portuguese preschool children with Disruptive Behavior Disorder symptoms, so as to promote a cost effective and evidence-based clinical practice and to create a valid alternative to pharmacological treatment.
Parent Training Program in ADHD: Parents attendance and satisfaction (PDF) Developing and Researching the IY Parent Programmes in Portugal (Presentation) (PDF)
Location: Manchester, England Type of Agency: The Children and Parents Service
(CAPS) is a multi-agency city-wide (urban) early intervention service led
by Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) with key partners
in Early Years (Manchester City Council) and Family Welfare Association
(voluntary sector). CAPS is jointly
October, 2010. Dr. Caroline White of Manchester received a Recognition of Achievement by the city of Manchester, England for "Making a difference Through Service Excellence."
Location: England Type of Agency: The Central Area Support Team (CAST) is based at the Central Area Support Centre on Mossbrow Road, Huyton and is made up of: Educational Psychologists, Educational Social Workers, Sensory Impairment Service, Specialist teachers for learning and behaviour (Access and Inclusion), and Inclusion Support Workers. The Central Area Support Team is committed to working with parents, other agencies and schools to promote the five outcomes with which Every Child Matters is concerned. These include: Being healthy, Staying safe, Enjoying and achieving, Making a positive contribution, and Social economic well-being. The CAST offers support and advice to parents and carers in developing the emotional, social and educational development of their child. Requests for involvement from the CAST are usually made through the child's school. The team can be contacted on (0151) 443 5771. Results from three of the six Incredible Years Programs: Dina Classroom Program, Dina Small Group Therapy Program, and Parent Program.
Location: Exeter, England This video clip features two teachers who attended the first Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management (TCM) course run by the STARS study, in the UK. Nobody can better describe the TCM course and the impact that it has had than the teachers themselves.
Location: Ramsey County, Minnesota Type of Agency: The Amherst H. Wilder Foundation is a nonprofit health and human services organization that combines direct service, research, and community development to address the needs of the most vulnerable people in greater Saint Paul. Wilder introduced Incredible Years to the community in 2004. Wilder implements the Teacher Classroom Management Program and the Dina Dinosaur Classroom Curriculum as a full-day early childhood care and education program. Wilder trains and mentors other providers, including Head Start, to assure program fidelity. Wilder also provides the Dina Small Group Therapy Program and the Preschool BASIC Parent Program. In Fall 2009, Wilder will coordinate local training in the new Parents and Babies and Parents and Toddlers programs, and will begin offering these new programs to community parents.
Location: Stark County, Ohio Type of Agency: Community Mental Health and Consulting
Location: Bangor, Maine Type of Agency: PCHC is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) serving 38 towns of the greater Bangor region. In January 2009, Penobscot Community Health Care (PCHC) started to offer "The Incredible Years Basic Parenting Program" to its employees. The training was offered to PCHC employees as a model to promote universal parenting education to all families. Parenting young children can be a great stressor for working parents and the leadership at PCHC believed that offering IY to employees was a way of supporting parenting education for families to reduce stress at home and at the workplace.
Location: Denver, Colorado Type of Agency: Invest in Kids (IIK) is a non-profit agency whose mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of vulnerable children and families throughout Colorado. Working in partnership with local communities, IIK identifies, introduces, implements and ensures the success of research-based, proven programs.
Invest in Kids identified The Incredible Years program in 2002 after an intensive international search for a program with significant and sustained evidence that would benefit children, their families and their teachers. The Incredible Years program was implemented statewide, in over 128 sites, serving over 6,507 children and 416 parents. Invest in Kids (IIK) is the sole source of Incredible Years training in the state and supports sites in implementing the program through intensive technical assistance and evaluation.
Location: Portland, Oregon Type of Agency: Community Mental Health organization with 500 staff. Logistics and Support for running Incredible Years
Groups Morrison Child and Family Services Clinical Model Public Recognition about Morrison Child and Family
Services
Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina Evaluations of Smart Start Family Support and Health Grant. Iheoma U. Iruka and Kelly Maxwell, FPG Child Development Institute, UNC - Chapel Hill.
Location: Rochester, Minnesota
Location: Columbus, Ohio Type of Agency: State mental health. This report provides a summary of the Incredible Years Program for July 2007-2008 by Ohio Department of Mental Health. The report provides pre and post measures on the Incredible Years Parent Program (parenting scale), Child Small Group Treatment Program (DECA), Classroom Dina Program (teacher DINA program satisfaction) and Teacher Classroom Management Program (teacher classroom management satisfaction).
Location: North Carolina Type of Agency: State mental health.
Location: Fayette County, Pennsylvania The project is focused on improving the children’s social-emotional development, using the SEEDS Project (Social Emotional Early Developmental Success). To achieve this goal, the SEEDS Project funding will be used to develop staff resources within the program to assist children, their parents, and other community agencies involved in the Early Childhood Education system with preventing, reducing, and treating aggression and inappropriate behaviors in children. As a result, the outcomes include promotion of children’s social, emotional, and academic competence. The guiding tool for developing positive social-emotional development is the Incredible Years (IY) Curriculum.
Location: Oklahoma Type of Agency: Tulsa City-County Health Department. Parenting classes were conducted by staff from the Child Guidance Clinic in the Tulsa City-County Health Department.
Location: Wales, UK Type of Agency: The Incredible Years Wales Centre offers preventive family mental health and Incredible Years programmes and training, and also conducts research. Research Team: Led by Professor Judy Hutchings Since 2001 The Incredible Years Wales Centre project has focused on disseminating and researching the evidence based Incredible Years parent, child and teacher classroom management programmes. The Incredible Years Wales Centre was established in 2003. The centre maintains an active programme of training events throughout Wales with opportunities to train in all of the Webster-Stratton Incredible Years programmes. It also holds an annual conference. Professor Judy Hutchings is authorized by Professor Webster-Stratton as a Trainer to train people to deliver the Incredible Years Parenting Programmes, the Small Group Dina Therapeutic and Classroom Dinosaur School Programmes and the Teacher Classroom Management Programme.
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Canada - Toronto Public Health - Implementation
Denmark - CAST Study of the Incredible Years BASIC Program
Ireland -
Archways - The Incredible Years Ireland
NZ -
The
Werry Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health to date has been highly
successful in training clinicians in the Incredible Years Basic Parenting
Programme. All of the DHB’s across New Zealand have now had access to training
and most of the regions are now delivering the programme. Evidenced based
parenting programmes are sought after across all of the Health, Education,
Social Development and NGO sectors. Carolyn Webster-Stratton’s Incredible
Years Parenting Programme has been targeted as one of the key interventions
for agencies in New Zealand working with families.
Norway - Implementing the Incredible Years
Palestine - Bethlehem Holy Child Program
Portugal - University of Coimbra Study
Research
Team: Prof. Maria Filomena Gaspar, Prof. Maria João Seabra-Santos and
Prof. Cristina Canavarro. PhD Students: Andreia Fernandes Azevedo
and Tatiana Carvalho Homem
UK - Children and Parents’ Service Early Intervention
commissioned through CAMHS, Sure Start,
Extended Schools and the Department for Children, Schools and Families.
USA - Amherst H. Wilder Foundation
Wales - The Incredible Years Wales Centre
The Incredible Years Wales Centre grew out of a project
started by Professor. Judy Hutchings (center), and Carolyn
Webster-Stratton, with colleagues from the North West
Wales NHS Trust and the University of Wales, Bangor, in 1995. Its aim was
to develop and promote evidence-based interventions for children with conduct
disorders and their families. Project staff has completed a number of funded
research projects, all associated with children who have behaviour management
problems.
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