{ "id": 3198, "date": "2025-11-17T20:08:53", "date_gmt": "2025-11-17T20:08:53", "guid": { "rendered": "https:\/\/new.softtulip.nl\/?page_id=3198" }, "modified": "2026-01-26T13:59:58", "modified_gmt": "2026-01-26T13:59:58", "slug": "history", "status": "publish", "type": "page", "link": "https:\/\/www.softtulip.nl\/en\/history\/", "title": { "rendered": "History" }, "content": { "rendered": "
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The name has historical roots dating back to 1991.<\/p>

Originally, SOFT<\/strong> stood for the Hungarian phrase S<\/strong>eg\u00edtsd, \u00d3<\/strong>vd F<\/strong>ogyat\u00e9kos T<\/strong>\u00e1rsad (\u201cHelp and Protect Your Peer with Disability\u201d).<\/p>

The Dutch branch later added tulip, symbolizing its Netherlands origin.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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  • 1991<\/h4><\/div>

    SOFT tulip was registered.<\/p><\/div><\/li>

  • 1999<\/h4><\/div>

    Building Early Childhood intervention services in Kharkiv.<\/p>\"Photo<\/div><\/li>

  • 2005<\/h4><\/div>

    SOFT tulip (as the Dutch branch of ISF) meets Path of Life in Debrecen (Hungary), which leads to the official collaboration in 2006 in Ukraine.<\/p><\/div><\/li>

  • 2007<\/h4><\/div>

    SOFT tulip begins Early Intervention training, shifting from advocacy work to capacity-building. Soft tulip starts training EI teams in Lviv & Uzhhorod with Kharkiv experts.<\/p><\/div><\/li>

  • 2008<\/h4><\/div>

    SOFT tulip started supporting parent organizations: including parents\u2019 groups, strengthening their involvement in Early Intervention activities.<\/p><\/div><\/li>

  • Since 2008<\/h4><\/div>

    SOFT tulip ECI program starts expanding the network in Ukraine in partnership with UNICEF, National Assembly of People with Disabilities.<\/p><\/div><\/li>

  • 2015<\/h4><\/div>

    Meeting the vice governor of Kharkiv.<\/p>\"Photo<\/div><\/li>

  • 2016<\/h4><\/div>

    Meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Rozenko Soft tulip (within the alliance) presents the EI approach and evidence at the deputy-prime-minister level to discuss the next steps to be taken at the governmental level.<\/p><\/div><\/li>

  • 2016<\/h4><\/div>

    Government approves Early Childhood Intervention plan, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approval sets an official course for EI; ministries are tasked with drafting and coordination. This set an official course and assigned ministries to create the MoU and the national EI platform that Soft tulip would help launch the next year.<\/p><\/div><\/li>

  • 2016-2019<\/h4><\/div>

    Development of the Parent\u2019s movement \u201cParents for Early intervention\u201d.<\/p>\"Photo<\/div><\/li>

  • 2017<\/h4><\/div>

    Memorandum of Understanding on Early Intervention (MoU) on Early Intervention signed between SOFT tulip UNICEF, NAPD, Early Intervention Institute Kharkiv, a parents\u2019 representative, Soft tulip, and Eurlyaid). An Official birth of the National EI Policy Platform Soft tulip helped create.<\/p>\"Photo<\/div><\/li>

  • 2018<\/h4><\/div>

    NL talks with acting MoH Ulyana Suprun; platform secretariat prepares an important step for institutionalization, ministerial backing for the platform secretariat and trainer certification\/transition work.<\/p><\/div><\/li>

  • 2019<\/h4><\/div>

    Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved the Resolution \"Development of the National Council for Early Intervention\"<\/p><\/div><\/li>

  • 2009-2019<\/h4><\/div>

    Order of the Cabinet of Ministers \u2116350-r of May 22, 2019, which identifies 10 pilot areas.<\/p>\"Photo<\/div><\/li>

  • 2019<\/h4><\/div>

    Meetings of the National Council.<\/p>\"Photo<\/div><\/li>

  • 2019<\/h4><\/div>

    National EI Council set up; members appointed incl. SOFT tulip \u2192 Soft tulip embedded in formal governance, advising on national EI rollout.<\/p><\/div><\/li>

  • 2019<\/h4><\/div>

    First EI Council meeting with SOFT tulip as a member.\nMeantime Platform becomes operational; cross-ministerial body starts working with an established governance and expansion, including a national coordinator, a permanent advisory council with SOFT tulip as a member, an increase in pilot regions from 4 to 10, and the council's inaugural meeting.<\/p><\/div><\/li>

  • 2021<\/h4><\/div>

    Meetings of the National Council.<\/p><\/div><\/li>

  • 2021<\/h4><\/div>

    The Concept of creation and development of the system of early intervention was approved (order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine \u2116 517 of 26.05.2021). Action Plan approved (order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine \u2116 1117 of 15.09.2021). Approved Guidelines for the organization of early intervention services (Order of the Ministry of Social Policy \u211692 of 18.02.2021)<\/p><\/div><\/li>

  • 2022<\/h4><\/div>

    Meetings of the National Council.<\/p><\/div><\/li>

  • 2023<\/h4><\/div>

    In August 2023, the Ukrainian Association for Early Childhood Intervention (UAEI) was established.<\/p>\"Photo<\/div><\/li>

  • 2025<\/h4><\/div>

    SOFT tulip, GGZ Noord-Holland-Noord and the Department of Social Policy of Zakarpattia signed an Agreement of Cooperation for 2026-2031.<\/p><\/div><\/li>

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    The name has historical roots dating back to 1991. Originally, SOFT stood for the Hungarian phrase Seg\u00edtsd, \u00d3vd Fogyat\u00e9kos T\u00e1rsad (\u201cHelp and Protect Your Peer with Disability\u201d). The Dutch branch later added tulip, symbolizing its Netherlands origin. 1991 SOFT tulip was registered. 1999 Building Early Childhood intervention services in Kharkiv. 2005 SOFT tulip (as the […]<\/p>", "protected": false }, "author": 1, "featured_media": 0, "parent": 0, "menu_order": 0, "comment_status": "closed", "ping_status": "closed", "template": "sunnyaid-template.php", "meta": { "_acf_changed": false, "footnotes": "" }, "class_list": [ "post-3198", "page", "type-page", "status-publish", "hentry" ], "acf": [], "_links": { "self": [ { "href": "https:\/\/www.softtulip.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3198", "targetHints": { "allow": [ "GET" ] } } ], "collection": [ { "href": "https:\/\/www.softtulip.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages" } ], "about": [ { "href": "https:\/\/www.softtulip.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page" } ], "author": [ { "embeddable": true, "href": "https:\/\/www.softtulip.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1" } ], "replies": [ { "embeddable": true, "href": "https:\/\/www.softtulip.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3198" } ], "version-history": [ { "count": 82, "href": "https:\/\/www.softtulip.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3198\/revisions" } ], "predecessor-version": [ { "id": 4698, "href": "https:\/\/www.softtulip.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3198\/revisions\/4698" } ], "wp:attachment": [ { "href": "https:\/\/www.softtulip.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3198" } ], "curies": [ { "name": "wp", "href": "https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}", "templated": true } ] } }