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. Since its opening in 2003, the work of the IY Wales Centre 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. Of particular importance is our work with the Welsh Assembly Government as part of their Parenting Action Plan for Wales, who have funded training across Wales in delivering the parent programme for the last three years and look set to continue.

Our research activity continues to flourish under Tracey's leadership. 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 has 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.
 

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 2010 Annual Conference

The 2010 IY annual conference will be held in Cardiff on Wednesday 17th March 2010.  It will take place at the Village Hotel, Cardiff and be opened by Jane Hutt, Minister for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills.  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

Archways, Ireland a national organisation promoting and researching the use of evidence based programmes as an intervention for young people experiencing social, emotional, and behavioural difficulties have an upcoming conference the 21st of September 2009 for more information and to book a place at the conference please follow the link below:-

http://www.archways.ie/news_events_brochures/archways_national_conference_2009/

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