Early results regarding the training of group leaders in the parent program indicate that group leaders who received ongoing telephone consultations and DVD group reviews from certified Incredible Years mentors had significantly higher program fidelity compared with group leaders who only received only the 3-day workshop. Stay tuned in 2011 for our papers regarding this topic.

We are putting the finishing touches on a new book for parents, called Incredible Babies - A Guide and Journal of Your Baby's First Year. We are very excited to provide this book as a companion to our Incredible Years Parents and Babies program! It has all the topics covered from the program, and also has pages that parents can write on to help remember these exciting first weeks and months of their baby's life.

Soon afterwards we will also have the companion book for the Parents and Toddlers' program - Incredible Toddlers - A Guide and Journal of Your Toddler's Discoveries. It follows the same format as the Baby book, covering all the topics of the Toddler program and providing parents space to write their memories, paste in photos, and journal. We think you will find these to be very positive additions to your parent groups!

For the School Age BASIC parent series we have developed a home-visitor coaching model. This one-on-one parent-coach model can be used to deliver at home the entire School Age BASIC program or as a supplement for parents attending an Incredible Years group. This home-visitor coaching model is a good option if parents cannot attend a parent group due to schedule conflicts, or if there is an extended delay before the next parent group will be offered. This model may also be used with parents who need some additional coaching at home with their children.

*These manuals are already available for the Preschool/Early Childhood Basic program.

We have updated quite a bit of the information on our frequently asked questions section - if you have any questions you are always welcome to email us, but you can check out the FAQ section too, to see if we’ve answered your questions there! View the FAQ

Group leaders and teachers have frequently asked us for such things as teaching tool kit, show me five poster, classroom rules and feeling cue cards, baby brain neuron poster, parent and child card games and so forth. We are now providing many of these supplemental materials along with a description of how they are to be used. See all the supplemental materials on the web site in the parent, teacher and child programs sections.

See the website schedule for upcoming training workshops and consultations. New workshops are added to the schedule as they become available.
http://www.incredibleyears.com/WI/schedule.asp 

Interested in training in one of the other Incredible Years programs? Staff turnover and you need another facilitator trained? If you are in the USA, we are always taking names so we can plan trainings to meet demand. Contact us by email to add names to our list: incredibleyears@incredibleyears.com

In addition to the authorized workshops, the Incredible Year's certified trainers are available for on-going consulting. New group leaders can submit DVDs for review and feedback from the Incredible Years certified trainers as part of their certification process. Frequently agencies find it helpful to schedule a 1-day follow-up consultancy workshop a year after the initial training workshop. During this workshop, group leaders bring DVDs to show to the group and to receive feedback from Incredible Years certified trainers and other group members.

Incredible Years certified trainers also consult on other matters related to maintaining the quality of program dissemination such as:

• program evaluations and assessment methods

• research grant submissions

• agency adoption strategies

• on-going professional development of leaders/therapists in the implementation of "empirically validated" interventions

• ways to build your agency’s supportive infrastructure and long term sustainability by training certified coaches

• promoting group leader certification to assure program fidelity

If you are interested in a consultation, please contact Lisa St. George, or lisastgeorge@comcast.net, Incredible Years Administrative Director.

We have not increased our shipping rates for approximately 6 years, but it just cannot last… New rates begin January 1, 2011 – see our new Price sheet/Order form for the new rates.

*Keep your information current in our database – email us with any changes to your address information – incredibleyears@incredibleyears.com - thanks!

Contact the Incredible Years office if you have questions. Email: IncredibleYears@incredibleyears.com

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