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Between 2005 and May 2006, a project to train multipliers to work with parents was carried out in Colombia, which encompassed 45 groups in nine cities and municipalities of the country. For eight months, workshops were held to promote positive child raising and to stop humiliating, degrading and corporal punishment. In 2004, Save the Children UK Bogota published a manual in Spanish to assist educators to work with parents in this area, Descubriendo la Crianza positiva. Sin golpes ni gritos This document organises and presents the experience in the hope that it can help to build knowledge on corporal punishment and humiliating and degrading forms of punishment, and also on the training model that the project used. Quantitative information was collected by administering surveys to the participants at the beginning and end of the project; qualitative data was also collected from the records of each of the workshops held with the educators. Further information
(Discovering Positive Parenting. Without Hitting or Yelling), following which a project to train multipliers was piloted. It was then thought desirable to develop training on the use of the manual, employing a model with specific methodological principles. These would assist educators to bring about changes related to punishment and positive child raising, as well as to strengthen their skills as educators of parents, concerning an issue that is very difficult to transform because the use of corporal punishment is culturally accepted.
pdf: http://www.crin.org/docs/Save_Suecia_Colombia_07.pdf