YOACIHUATL A.C. - Mexico

They have produced videotapes - using puppets, animation and original music - which are addressed to small children along with their parents. Tapes are in Spanish, with English subtitles. The tapes are used in Mexico, several countries in Latin America and have been dubbed into Hungarian and will soon be dubbed into Italian. Booklets of information accompany the videos. They offer training to pre-school, special education and elementary teachers for post-counseling after showing the tapes.

Children, rights, abuse.

YOACIHUATL A.C. hopes to extend this project into health, social and justice services. They have developed a methodology involving separation of children and parents after viewing the tapes into closed discussion/counseling sessions. Children are asked to draw or write either their own or the story they just saw on the tapes. Parents are divided into twos and then each re-tell to the other the story on the video tape. They are guided in this and moved to work on their own stories. Often, parents who mistreat their children connect that they were mistreated as children as well. YOACIHUATL A.C. hopes to ultimately create groups of self-help among the parents and counselors.