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.