This guidebook is designed to help you integrate the preparation and selection components of the Group Preparation and Selection Program.
The Implementation Guidebook for Group Preparation and Selection of Foster and/or Adoptive Parents directs you, the group leader, through the complex issues you will face as the model is put into practice. Group Preparation and Selection is more than a training program. It provides a model for education and mutual selection through the leadership of the agency. As a companion to the Leader's Guide, this book presents procedures that have been developed and tested by CWI and the states implementing this model to assist leaders and agencies in making preparation and selection programs more effective.
The guidebook provides the tools to build the partnership critical to successful program implementation. In order for Group Preparation and Selection to work, partnerships must be developed among:
The guidebook builds the conceptual foundation for mutual selection and sets the stage for using the Strengths Approach.
Group Preparation and Selection is a model built on specific practice premises. Its implementation affects the entire child welfare agency. This guidebook identifies critical needs to be met by administrators and staff during implementation. Working together, you and your colleagues can build the partnerships essential for permanence.
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