Welcome to our Incredible Years (IY) Wales web site with information about our work to promote and research the IY parent child and teacher programmes across Wales. The Incredible Years programme has three arms which work closely together, IY Bangor
University (Research activity) IY Wales Training Ltd (Training and Sales of materials)
and IY Cymru Charity (Fundraising for research and dissemination activity and support
to services that are using the programmmes). Since our first training in 2001 and the opening in 2003 of the IY Wales Centre our activity has grown. We hold an Annual Conference and run regular training in delivering the IY parent child and teacher programmes. We also maintain an active research programme and publish regularly. In 2006 we produced a DVD of parents speaking about the parent programme and another DVD of the baby programme in 2009. Of particular importance is our work with the Welsh Assembly Government as part of their Parenting Action Plan for Wales. They have funded training across Wales in delivering the parent programme for the last four years and over the last two years have added training for the teacher and child programmes.

Our research activity at Bangor University continues to flourish under Tracey's leadership. To view our current research; please click here to be re-directed to our research website. Our research, replicating Carolyn Webster-Stratton's early intervention study, with our partners in eleven Sure Start Services in North and Mid Wales, and Oswestry produced excellent results that have been shown to last. Our work has also received a lot of attention in England and been cited in the Social Exclusion Action Plan, published in September 2006 by the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit. This makes specific mention of our work, which was also mentioned in the House of Commons in December 2006 (Hansard). We have also undertaken research using teaching the teacher classroom management, toddler parent programmes as well as with foster carers and are currently researching the small group Dina child therapy programme, and the school readiness and baby parent programmes.
 

To view our training schedule, please click here

Judy Wins An Inspire Wales Educator Award

Congratulations to Judy on winning the first IWA Inspire Wales Educator Award. Awards were made for the first time on Tuesday 15th June by the Institute for Welsh Affairs in conjunction with the Western Mail to people whose work has been an inspiration in Wales.

There were 10 Award Categories. Judy was one of 70 nominations for the Educator category for her work in establishing and researching the Incredible Years Parent, Child and Teacher Programmes in Wales and for the international recognition that this has brought to Wales. She was named as the winner at the awards ceremony in Cardiff by presenter Angharad Mair. She was accompanied by research group leaders from across South Wales and IY team members from Bangor without whom she said, on receiving the award, this work would not be possible.

101 Ways To Praise A Child, to view this document by Laura Kiln please click here

The Welsh Country Magazine on the 17th March 2010 published an article about the work of the Incredible Years Centre in Wales.

'Through the work of Bangor University and the Incredible Years Wales Centre, the
Incredible Years programmes have continued to provide support and encouragement to
parents and flying starts to the lives of children across Wales for the last ten years.'

To be directed to the Welsh Country Magazine website to view the article in full please click here

Incredible Years Wales, North Wales Update Day took place on Friday the 5th February 2010 at Hen Goleg, College Road, Bangor. To view presentations from this day please click here to visit our events page and scroll down to past events.

Incredible Years Wales 2010 Annual Conference- "Research and Practice in Wales: Ten Incredible Years" took place on the 17th March 2010 at the Villiage Hotel, Coryton, Cardiff. To view presentations from this conference please click here to visit our events page and scroll down to past events.

We have established the programmes in Wales so quickly because Professor Carolyn Webster-Stratton, who founded the programmes in Seattle, has helped us to develop our own training resources, making the programmes widely accessible in Wales. Our newsletters (2007/2008 /2009) describe some of these developments. The parent and child programmes are being delivered as early intervention preventive programmes, as universal programmes (for example the Gwynedd Classroom Dinosaur School programme) and as therapeutic interventions in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services for referred children and families. We have continued to train people to deliver the teacher classroom management programme and this, too, is becoming more widely available as information about the programme grows.

From our base at Bangor, we organise training in the parent, child and teacher programmes, and provide ongoing support and advice to people. Our goal, to establish a network of certified leaders and mentors across Wales and  to enable the programmes to reach yet more children and families, is moving in the right direction.