The MAPP Institute
MAPP - the Model Approach to Partnerships in Parenting - is an internationally-used training approach that ensures kinship and foster parents experience an effective, integrated learning experience linking not only trauma-informed training content, but professional assessment, skills-based learning and peer support.
MAPP curriculum integrates four cornerstone principles to ensure foster and adoptive parent readiness:
Partnership - MAPP prepares foster parents to partner with families and service teams to offer the best possibility for family reunification and to ensure healthy family connections while children are separated from family.
Healing - MAPP provides foster and adoptive parents with the knowledge and critical skills to support healing for children and youth while they are in foster care… and sometimes as an ongoing resource.
Mutual Selection - MAPP ensures prospective foster and adoptive parents and agency staff have the opportunity to make mutual decisions about readiness for providing trust-based care. There is time for consultation and self-reflection.
Integrated Learning - MAPP combines the best of adult learning practices with current child welfare research to deliver quality skill-based preparation for prospective foster caregivers. Learning is supported by a community of peer and professional leaders. Caregivers retain important concepts and are prepared to support children in foster care.
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MAPP Licensing Curriculum for Kinship & Foster Parents
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MAPP Foundations
Introducing MAPP Foundations, the updated and newly released training that connects foster and prospective adoptive parents with peer trainers, a support network, and the latest information on brain science, child development and adult learning.
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Deciding Together
Deciding Together provides a one-to-one professional and family meeting series, covering important MAPP concepts with agency sponsors in a more flexible schedule setting over approximately 7 weeks.
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Caring for Our Own
Caring For Our Own is a 9 week, 27-hour support group provides kinship caregivers with ideas to help them work with the helping network, children and birth parents. The program includes information on trauma and federal guidelines for kinship care.
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MAPP Kinship
Our newest learning resources for kinship families draw on the latest child well-being and adult learning research to design “right-time” support for relative caregivers. Our MAPP Kinship series is designed to provide a path to licensing for kinship families when approved by state or county agencies. Origins is available online, on-demand today! And we are scheduling Kinship Path courses now. Email learn@childally.org to find out the next available date.
MAPP Leader Development & Support
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MAPP Leader Development
Alliance MAPP Master Trainers work with state agencies and nonprofit organizations to develop, grow and support certified MAPP Leaders and Approved Trainers. Whether you are starting as an Approved MAPP Leader, progressing to become a MAPP Approved Trainer or wishing to locate a MAPP Master Trainer, you’ve come to the right place. Contact us to learn how you or trainers in your state can become MAPP certified.
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MAPP Leader Network
The Children’s Alliance supports MAPP Leaders and Trainers through regular outreach, updates, coaching and problem-solving. Send us an email to join our network!
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MAPP Leader Resources
We’ve recently updated our storage for resources and updates for MAPP Leaders around the country! If you are a MAPP Leader, you should have received an invitation and passcode/token to create an account for our training and learning management system. Sign in here!
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MAPP Leaders on Facebook
Connect with MAPP Leaders by joining our MAPP Leader Facebook group.