Atlas Kompetanse

Atlas Kompetanse is a non-profit competence centre whose stated purpose is to prevent social exclusion among children and young people with minority backgrounds. It works with children and families with refugee and migration backgrounds and combines this with child welfare, social work and pedagogical expertise.

Services include flexible support measures for child welfare services, guidance for newly arrived families, and work to strengthen cooperation between school and home. It also runs ICDP and life-mastery courses for participants in the Norwegian introduction programme, and offers lectures and competence training for public-sector staff and others who work with such families. Its customers include municipal child welfare and refugee services, schools and kindergartens.

The company is registered in Oslo as an AS, with a founding date of 2015; its website states that it was founded in 2014. Recent projects listed include the pilot "Foreldre som medlesere" on reading with parents and the launch of the Atlas-telefonen, a national multilingual advisory service.

Product: Municipal support measures for child welfare, introduction programme guidance, ICDP and life-mastery courses, school-home cooperation services, and competence training.