ICS Skillful Parenting Cambodia

ICS-SP is a national non-profit organization registered with the Cambodian Ministry of Interior in July 2015. The organization aims to improve family lives and positively impact the well-being of children and women in Cambodia. Its core focus is on implementing the Skillful Parenting program and Financial Literacy (Family Budgeting) to reduce and prevent violence against children and women.

Values or Operating Principles

We realize that many more model parents can be achieved if we work together with other organizations to achieve our mission and goals. We use a collaborative style in interacting both within our team as well as with our partners and participants.

Community Vision

ICS-SP’s Community Vision is a Cambodia where families solve their everyday problems without violence, communicate in a peaceful way, and protect their children. This vision also aims to break the circle of intergenerational violence, and build a resilient, self-confident and balanced new generation.

Organizational Mission

In order to fulfill ICS-SP’s Community Vision to end family violence, two main missions have been identified:

• Action, i.e., identify ways to stop violence in the short-term. ICS-SP recognizes that it does not have expertise or resource, but should liaise with other organizations specialized in violence, hospitals, police, local authorities to find short-term solutions and protect the victims of violence,
• Prevention: i.e., changing behaviors in a sustainable way as well as challenging the cultural acceptation of violence. This is where the Skillful positive parenting program has a major role to play, especially if it is accompanied by awareness campaigns on the negative consequences of violence, and the root causes of violence in families (alcohol, lack of income…).