Incredible Years provides a comprehensive parent, teacher and child curricula for children age 2-8, and their parents and teachers. The curricula work jointly to promote emotional and social competence and to prevent, reduce and treat children’s behavioral and emotional problems. It is based on best practices and is a project of the Wilder Foundation’s Child Guidance Clinic.

Incredible Years has been implemented in the Wilder Child Development Center and the Child Guidance Clinic, and in early childhood programs throughout Ramsey County.

Activities include:

• a parent training/support program to help parents respond to their child’s needs
• Starting spring 2010, a newly developed parent/toddler program for high-risk families
• a child treatment group for young children who show high rates of aggression, defiance and oppositional or impulsive behaviors
• a teacher training program to assist teachers with classroom management of aggressive children in order to change child behavior in the class and build positive relationships with students.