HIPPY's on the Map
The HIPPY program serves over 22,000 families in 13 countries worldwide:
- Australia
- Austria
- Canada
- Germany
- Israel
- Italy
- New Zealand
- South Africa
- United States (23 States and District of Columbia)
Pilot projects in:
- Argentina
- Denmark
- Switzerland
National programs based on the HIPPY approach are operating in:
The HIPPY program is available (in part) in several different languages:
Arabic, Chinese, Creole, English, French, German, Hebrew, Spanish
Families from many different ethnic groups comprise the global
HIPPY network:
Aborginal Australian, African American, African Canadian, Israeli
Christian Arabs, Israeli Muslim Arabs, Asian American, Cambodian,
Cantonese, Caucasian, Chinese, Circassian Muslim, Druze, First Nation
Canadian, German, Hispanic, Hmong, Jewish Ethiopian, Latin American,
Maori, Native American, Pacific Islanders, Russian Jews, Somali,
Turkish, and Vietnamese
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Australia
HIPPY currently operates in 36 locations across Australia. Government
funding provides the opportunity to expand HIPPY nationally in
partnership with the Brotherhood of St Laurence. The program targets
some 3,000 families nationwide, in low socioeconomic communities
across Australia.
Carmen Calleya-Capp
National Manager, HIPPY Australia
Brotherhood of St Laurence
Mezzanine Floor
145 Smith Street
Fitzroy, Victoria 3065
AUSTRALIA
Tel: 613 9445 2478
Fax: 613 9445 2499
Email: ccalleya-capp@bsl.org.au
www.hippyaustralia.org.au
Email: ccalleya-capp@bsl.org.au
www.hippyaustralia.org.au
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Austria
HIPPY Austria began in May of 2007. From a small
pilot in Austria's capital, Vienna it established itself as a
model that was replicated in Austria's second largest city, Graz.
Wolfgang Kratky
Project Director
HIPPY Austria
Erlgasse 25/DG
1120 Vienna
Austria
Tel. 0043 1 943 8332
Email: wolfgang.kratky@beratungsgruppe.at
http://www.hippy.or.at
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Canada
HIPPY Canada currently serves 748 immigrant and First Nation
families at 13 locations
Debbie Bell
Executive Director
HIPPY Canada
#508 - 1190 Melville Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
CANADA V6E 3W1
Tel/Fax: 604 676 8751
Email: dbell@hippycanada.ca
Susanne Nahm
Program Assistant
Tel/Fax: 604 676 8250
Email: snahm@hippycanada.ca
http://www.hippycanada.ca
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Germany
1,540 families were served in the 2008/2009 year at 30 sites
Konstanze Mathieu-Baur
HIPPY Deutschland e.V.
National Coordinator
HIPPY Deutschland e.V.
Birkenstrasse 15
28195 Bremen
GERMANY
Tel: 49 421 1689 9224
Fax: 49 421 5668 151
E-Mail: Mathieu-baur@hippy-deutschland.de
www.hippy-deutschland.de
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Israel
There are HIPPY-related early childhood programs in 55 sites
serving over 2,000 families in Israel.
Malka Melamed
National Director,
Early Childhood Programs
The NCJW Research Institute for Innovation in Education
Hebrew University
Jerusalem, 91905
ISRAEL
Tel: 00 972 2 588 2096
Fax: 00 972 2 588 3698
Email: malkam@savion.huji.ac.il
http://www.ncjw=re.mscc.huji.ac.il
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Italy
HIPPY Italy
Veronica Fratelli, Coordinator
Distretto sociale
Via Capuccini 2
39041 Bressanone (BZ)
Tel: 00 39 472 270 415
Email: veronica.fratelli@bzgeis.org
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New Zealand
First implemented in 1992, HIPPY has taken root healthily and
throughout New Zealand, expanding in 2010 to 27 communities. Three
new programs are opening with government funding through the Waitemata
District Health board which recognizes that HIPPY has an important
role in improving the long term health and well being of children
from low income families.
HIPPY New Zealand has a website:
http://www.greatpotentials.org.nz
Jane Hall
National Director
HIPPY New Zealand
Great Potentials
P.O. Box 11283
Ellerslie, Auckland 1131 New Zealand
Tel: 64 9377 5384
Fax: 64 9377 5386
Email: jane.hall@greatpotentials.org.nz
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South Africa
HIPPY South Africa has been in existence for 21 years.
It has served over 20,000 young children and vulnerable families
in communities and provinces of South Africa. The vision is to
produce a generation of active and responsible citizens and vibrant
leaders for the future as HIPPY works with families, parents,
preschool children and their communities.
Khadija Richards, Director
Director, HIPPY South Africa
Brixton Recreation Centre
Corner Ripley and Fulham Roads
Brixton
Johannesburg, 2092
SOUTH AFRICA
Tel: 011 837 8837
Fax: 084 718 5006
Email: Khadija@hippysa.org
http://www.hippysa.org
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USA
The HIPPY USA network continues to provide services to
approximately 16,000 children annually at 135 sites across the
country.
HIPPY USA
1221 Bishop Street
Little Rock, Arkansas 72202
U.S.A.
Tel: 001 501 537 7726
Email: mschwartz@hippyusa.org
M. Gayle Hart
National Program Director
1221 Bishop Street
Little Rock, Arkansas 72202
U.S.A.
Tel: 001 501 537 7731
Email mghart@hippyusa.org
http://www.hippyusa.org
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