Organization
NUBU consists of a research department, a development and implementation department, and an administration.
NUBU employs 46 professionals, including six regional coordinators.
Aboutus
The Norwegian Center for Child Behavioral Development (NUBU) works to help improve the developmental outcomes for vulnerable children and adolescents and their families.
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Research-based,relevantandindividuallytailoredsupport
NUBU develops, implements and evaluates interventions for children and youth with serious and complex difficulties, their families and schools, with the goal of offering the best support possible. Our interventions are research-based, relevant and individually tailored, and we evaluate their effectiveness.
Ownership and financing
Our organisation is primarily funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Children and Families. The grant is administered by the Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth and Family Affairs. NUBU also receives funding from the Directorate of Health and the Directorate of Education, as well as research grants for specific projects.
Ourhistory
Throughout the 1990s, Norway experienced an increase in the number of referrals to child and adolescent services related to serious behavioural problems among children and youth. This was accompanied by a need for safe and effective interventions targeting these types of difficulties.
In 1997, the Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion commissioned the Research Council of Norway to convene an expert conference on children and adolescents with serious behavioural problems. An expert committee was established in connection with the conference. It was tasked with reviewing up-to-date research and knowledge presented at the conference, and to recommend preventive and treatment initiatives aiming to treat and reduce behavioural problems among children and adolescents. Based on the committee’s recommendations, the Behaviour Project was established in 1999 (called Atferdssenteret).
The main objective of the project was to implement Parent Management Training (PMTO) and Multisystemic Therapy (MST) in a Norwegian setting and to evaluate their effectiveness. All 19 of the then current counties accepted an interdepartmental invitation to implement PMTO and MST, with the goal of national implementation. The Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion, the Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs together extended the invitation.
In 2003, the Behaviour Project became a research and development organisation; the Norwegian Center for Child Behavioral Development (NUBU), affiliated with the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo. In 2019, ownership of the organisation was transferred from the University of Oslo to the research institute NORCE, and NUBU became a subsidiary of NORCE.
Organizationalstrategy
NUBU’s organisational strategy for 2022–2026 covers our primary mission and values, as well as four focus areas that guide our priorities and activities.
NUBU’s mission is to improve the developmental outcomes for vulnerable children and adolescents and their families.
NUBU’s values are:
- Innovative
- Research-based
- Inclusive
NUBU’s focus areas are to:
- Increase access to NUBU’s research-based interventions for children, youth and families
- Generate research and knowledge
- Be a leading voice in shaping professional and service development
- Invest in competence