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 a further one on 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

The Incredible Years Centre recently held its annual conference on the 19th March in Cardiff titled 'Using Evidence Based Programmes to Support Parents, Children and Teachers' for a programme and to view presentations from the conference please click here and scroll down to Past Events.

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: Ten Incredible Years ”

to be held on

17th March, 2010

at The Village Hotel, Coryton, Cardiff,

The conference will be opened by Huw Lewis AM Deputy Minister for Children, The Assembly Government for Wales. Welsh Assembly Government funding has provided 100 free places for staff in Wales (approximately four per Authority). Additional places and the cost of places for delegates from outside Wales will be £75 per head.

For more information please click here to download our conference flyer, for a welsh version of the flyer please click here  

To view a draft programme of the conference please click here

To download a registration form to attend the conference please click here, to view the registration form in Welsh please click here.

We are inviting submission of presentations and posters from service providers in Wales for an afternoon session on experiences and lessons learned in developing the programmes locally, for more information and instructions on how to submit a poster or a presentation please click here for a Welsh version of this form please click here

In 2007 we launched an award programme to give recognition to ‘Incredible’ people who are developing or supporting the programmes in Wales. Awards were made at our Annual Conference in 2008 and again in 2009. We are now seeking nominations for our 2010 Awards. If you have an “incredible” parent who has attended a group, co-leader, manager or other person who has supported the development of the programmes please can you nominate them, click here to downlaod the form, if you would like this form in Welsh please click here.

There are also pre-conference workshops and consultations on the 16th March these will consist of; a parent consultation, a teacher and child consultation and a and service manager consultation.

For information about these workshops and consultations please click on the headings below, click Cymraeg if you would like to view the information in Welsh.

 Parent     Cymraeg

Teacher and Child            Cymraeg

Service Manager            Cymraeg

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) 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