Program Meeting Outline

 
Meeting 1: Welcome to the Group Preparation and Selection Program
 
Meeting 2: Where the MAPP leads: A foster care and adoption experience
 
Meeting 3: Losses and Gains
The need to be a “Loss Expert” – Grieving Process Stages – Impact of Loss on Feelings and Behavior – Partnership in Loss: Turning Losses Into Gains
 
Meeting 4: Helping children with attachments
Meeting Needs: The Foundation for Building and Maintaining Trust and Attachment – Issues Affecting Attachment for Children in Foster Care or Adoption – Developing Positive Attachments
 
Meeting 5: Helping children learn to manage their behaviors
The Important Role of Foster Parents and Adoptive Parents in Helping Children Express Feelings and Manage Behaviors – Skills adoptive and foster parents can use to help children learn healthy behaviors
 
Meeting 6: Helping children with birth family connections
Identity, Self-concept and Culture – Importance of Birth Family Connections – Importance of Visits with Birth Families
 
Meeting 7: Gains and Losses: Helping children leave foster care
Going Home: The Partnership Approach – Preventing Disruptions: The Partnership Approach – Meeting Our Own Needs
 
Meeting 8: Understanding the impact of fostering or adopting
The Family as a System – Assessing Your Family for Change
 
Meeting 9: Perspectives in foster parenting and adoptive parenting
 
Meeting 10: Endings and Beginnings
Strengths/Needs Assessment: the PS-MAPP program.
Strengths/Needs Assessment: the family and agency partnership.