Model Approach to Partnerships in Parenting (MAPP)

The Model Approach to Partnerships in Parenting (MAPP) helps develop and support successful partnerships between agencies, families and children. MAPP programs help prepare forster and adoptive parents to work in partnership with the agency and support the case plans for children who must be removed from their homes.

Because foster and adoptive parents have round-the-clock, close contact with the children in their homes, they have the most influence on the children's adjustments in care, their relationship with the birth families, and their ability to move successfully into an adoptive placement.

Training provides a structural format by which prospective foster and adoptive families make decisions about their ability, willingness and readiness to participate in the program.

Foster and adoptive parents need to know information about: children's feelings regarding their birth families, dynamics of separation and attachment, discipline techniques, impact of a new child on one's own family, and how to parent children who have been physically, emotionally and sexually abused.

MAPP training is offered in English and Spanish.

To find out about existing training schedules, contact Janel Stephenson: (310) 578-1750 ext. 6137 or email: JanelS@westsidechildrens.org