This alliance explains the importance of support groups and provides information about their own support group. CAFA’s support group offers general support to parents and caregivers raising their adoptive (or soon-to-be adopted) children. The support group meetings are free, parent-led, and meet monthly.
This article explains the benefits of parent support groups for parents of adoptees. It discusses single parents’ and couples’ challenges and provides some resources for parents interested in exploring support groups.
This alliance brings adoptive families together in North Carolina. They offer three types of groups: therapist-led, community-led, and a mix of support and education (“support-ucation”). Session donations of $20 are suggested, but all groups are “pay what you can.”
Heart of Adoptions is a private adoption agency. They offer a list of various support groups, and descriptions and contact information for each group. There are single parent, adoptee, mental health, birth family groups, and more.
This organization has a search directory that allows users to filter through countless adoption support groups in North America. There are many support group categories, including ones for single parents, birth parents, pre-adoption, and post-adoption.
This is an online forum containing numerous threads about adoption. Categories include adoptive parents, foster care, special needs, adult adoptees, and more. Each category contains multiple subcategories where people can publish posts and interact with other users.
A list of support groups in North America, including name, state, meeting times, and contact information. Group members can include both adopted adults and birth parents. Others welcome anyone impacted by adoption, while only a few are open exclusively to adoptees or birth parents.
This webpage offers resources on for all aspects of domestic and intercountry adoption, however it focuses on adoption from the US foster care system. It includes information for adoption professionals, adopted adults, prospective adoptive parents, and birth families on a broad range of adoption topics.
This is an ever-growing menu of free resources and ideas for maintaining health with a disability. It discusses insurance, therapy, government programs, and nature programs that are meant for people with disabilities.
This center is dedicated to providing parents of children with disabilities with information, training, and assistance. Their resource page features many websites and tools for parents of children with disabilities.
