8 week course beginning Monday April 6, 2015 and ending Monday May 25, 2015.  Each class runs once a week on Monday nights from 6pm – 9pm

PS-MAPP assists KVC in addressing the six federal family and children services review outcomes by addressing them with prospective foster and adoptive parents:

• Incidence of child abuse and neglect in foster care
• Recurrence of  maltreatment
• Foster care reentries
• Length of time to achieve reunification
• Length of time to achieve adoption, and
• Stability of foster care placement.

The goal of the PS-MAPP program is to enable foster families to achieve the following core competencies:

• Foster and foster/adoptive parents will be able to meet the developmental and wellbeing needs of children and youth coming into foster care, or being adopted through foster care;
• Foster and foster/adoptive parents will be able to meet the safety needs of children and youth coming into foster care, or being adopted through foster care;
• Foster parents will be able to share parenting with a child’s family;
• Foster parents will be able to support concurrent planning for permanency; and,
• Foster and foster/adoptive parents will be able to meet their family’s needs in ways that assure a child’s safety and wellbeing.