Certified Incredible Years® Trainers

Kathleen has been an educator since the early '80s and has taught junior kindergarten to grade six as well as in congregated special education classes. She has also worked at the board level training and supporting teachers as an Integration resource teacher (complex and high needs special education K-12), a Mathematics, Science and Technology resource teacher and as a Reading Recovery™ Teacher Leader, Early Years Resource Teacher, and literacy resource teacher K-12. Kathleen is qualified to teach kindergarten to grade 8 and has specialist qualifications in primary education as well training in kindergarten and early childhood education. Further, Kathleen has a MEd in literacy and additional qualifications in computers, special education, math, and music. Kathleen teaches a variety of additional qualifications courses for several universities and has also completed contract work for the Ontario Ministry of Education and several publishers. Kathleen is a Certified Teacher of the Incredible Years classroom Dinosaur curriculum and has taught the preschool, year one and year two curricula in JK-grade 2 classrooms. Her experience teaching the curriculum to children as well as working with teachers to implement teacher classroom management and classroom Dina gives her a wide range of skills to support the implementation of the Incredible Years programs within her school board and to work collegially with community partners who offer day care based, small group Dina and parenting programs.

(Trainer) Parent Program, Dina Program, Teacher Program

Dr Sue Evans, is a Consultant Child Psychologist. Sue is a certified trainer in many of the Incredible Years parent programs, including the IY Autism and Language Delay programme. Sue is also a trainer in the IY teacher programmes. She is now semi retired from her post as Consultant Child Psychologist for Parenting and Childrens’ Social Competence programmes with a health board in mid Wales. For many years she has offered training and supervision, in a range of IY programmes, to agencies in her local area and also offered training and supervision to agencies across Wales in her prior role as honorary Lecturer at Bangor University. Sue led a team that previously won the NHS Wales award for "Working Seamlessly Across Organizations" in delivering the IY programs in Powys, mid Wales. Sue has been involved in a number of research trials linked to IY programmes.

Since March 2020 Sue has worked with agencies in her local area to deliver IY programmes on line as a way of continuing access to services during the pandemic.
Prior to being involved with IY programmes Sue worked for many years as an Educational Psychologist both in Wales and in England. Her doctoral work involved the development of solution-focused, collaborative consultation groups for teachers

(Trainer) Parent Program (Toddler/Preschool), (Mentor) Peer Coach Training Program

Clinical child psychologist. Leader of the team working with The Incredible Years Program in the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic In Trondheim, Norway. She is a certified group leader in the parent program, and has worked with parent groups since 2000. She has worked with Dr. Moerch as a supervisor for the parent group leaders in the Norwegian research trial. She has now started her training as a group leader in the Dinosaur treatment program for children. Her earlier work experience is as a school psychologist and as a clinical psychologist in the psychiatric outpatient clinic for children and in different Childrens hospitals (somatic wards).

(Trainer) Parent Program (Toddler/Preschool, School Age, Advance), Dina Small Group Treatment, Teacher Classroom Management, and Classroom Dina Programs

Peter is a Social Worker. He is certified as both a parent group leader, child dinosaur group leader - treatment and prevention, and teacher group leader. He has offered these programs as treatment programs for families with children with diagnosed problems with defiant disorder and conduct problems, at the University of Washington Parenting Clinic. He is a certified trainer in the parent program, the small group Dina Dinosaur program, the Classroom-based Dina Dinosaur program, and the Teacher Classroom Management program. He has trained people in the US, UK, and worldwide.

(Trainer) Parent Programs, Small Group Dina Therapy Program

Kimberlee Shoecraft, MSW, began her work with Incredible Years in 2006 by providing the Incredible Years® parenting groups for the WA state child welfare population. Since then, she has trained and provided clinical consultation for thousands of group leaders all over the world. Kimberlee’s background includes psychiatric social work, evidence-based program training, implementation, and dissemination in WA state as well as, working in several African and Middle Eastern countries on the training and dissemination of social service programs.