Child Development

Foster Parent/PS-MAPP
Are you interested in becoming a Foster/Adoptive Parent?
PS-MAPP, Partnering for Safety and Permanence-Model Approach to Partnership in Parenting, is the pre-service preparation of new foster and adoptive parents in Iowa. Through the course of ten 3-hour meetings, prospective foster/adoptive parents learn about the children needing placement.

If you are interested, contact Iowa KidsNet (800-243-0756) to participate in an orientation where you will get more information and an application to become a foster or adoptive parent. You will be assigned a social worker, who can register you for an upcoming class.

Classes are held on the DMACC campuses regularly in Ankeny and Des Moines, and periodically in Ames.