PS-MAPP Trainer's Guide
$517.50
The trainer's guide fully documents the process for preparing new leaders to use the PS-MAPP program through eight days of professional development. The eight-day leader certification or training program is designed to build the skills required of preparation/selection workers to help families consider their willingness and ability to foster and/or adopt successfully.
The guide provides specific process and content notes for training new leaders to use the content and process of the 10 PS-MAPP parent meetings, as well as to use effective experiential learning methods. The trainer's guide also provides step-by-step experiential learning to assist leaders in family assessment, resource family development and the mutual selection process. At the conclusion of the eight days of training, new leaders develop skills in the use of several important preparation and selection tools:
- Eco Map: The Eco Map, which was created by Ann Hartman, describes and assesses the
family's sources and expenditures of energy. Leaders learn how to help each family complete
and assess an Eco Map. 1
- Family Map: The Family Map, which was created by John Williams, describes and
assesses the family's boundary, power and authority systems.2 Leaders learn how to help
each family complete and assess a Family Map.
- PS-MAPP Profile: Completed by the members of a prospective resource family,
the PS-MAPP Profile describes and assesses the prospective family's strengths and needs
in the family's own words. The Trainer's Guide develops leader skills in the use of a
simulated profile.
- PS-MAPP Family Consultations: The PS-MAPP Family Consultations between the
PS-MAPP leader and members of the prospective resource family offer private time for
the prospective foster family and PS-MAPP leader to discuss strengths, progress and family
needs, and plan ways to meet identified needs. During the eight days of certification
training, new leaders simulate consultations and learn skills to enhance their consultations
with prospective families.
- Strengths Approach – Strengths/Needs Assessments: The PS-MAPP program
utilizes the Strengths Approach to family assessment and development. The Strengths Approach
helps the PS-MAPP leader and the family to focus on strengths related to the critical skills
required of foster parents and to frame problems or challenges as professional development
needs. Both PS-MAPP leaders and prospective resource parents are responsible for assessing
strengths and needs, and the Trainer's Guide helps develop these important leader skills.
- Professional Development Plan: The Professional Development Plan is both a
document and a process designed to mutually develop, with a family, a plan for the family's
growth and development as a resource family or as a child welfare advocate, should they
decide that fostering and/or adopting is not right for them at this time. The Trainer's
Guide provides a focused process for learning how to develop and use these plans.
- Summary and Recommendation: Although this document summarizes the PS-MAPP process
of a prospective resource family, it is also a development tool in that the family and the
PS-MAPP leader mutually negotiate its content. This document is designed to mutually create
a summary of the family's behavioral strengths and needs at the completion of the PS-MAPP
program and to clearly state next steps for professional development. During the eight-day
leader certification program outlined in the Trainer's Guide, leaders learn techniques for
effectively developing an accurate Summary and Recommendation.
Included in the guide are all handouts and overhead transparency templates which may be
reproduced for certification training groups.
The PS-MAPP Implementation Guide and the PS-MAPP Leader's Guide are sold separately and are
required tools for the eight-day leader certification program.
CWI trainers are available to conduct the eight days of certification training.
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