Mamaya Health Adoption & Foster Parent Support Group

Virtual Support Group for Adoptive and Foster Parents by Mamaya Health

Group Overview:
Mamaya Health’s virtual, peer-led support group for adoptive and foster parents is a compassionate and inclusive space for anyone navigating the unique joys, challenges, and complexities of parenting through adoption or foster care. This one-hour, monthly group offers a place to process, connect, and build community with others who understand the heart of this journey.

What Makes This Group Unique?

• Peer-Led and Lived Experience-Based: Facilitated by adoptive and foster parents who bring authenticity, empathy, and deep understanding to each session.
• Inclusive and Affirming: All paths to parenthood are honored here—whether you’re fostering to adopt, navigating open adoption, reunification, kinship care, or new placement.
• Support Beyond the Surface: This space goes deeper than logistics—it’s about the emotional realities, identity shifts, and complexities of attachment, advocacy, and caregiving.

What to Expect in Each Session:

• Gentle Check-Ins: Share what’s on your heart—joys, challenges, questions, or simply listen and feel supported.
• Real Conversations: Topics like bonding and attachment, navigating relationships with agencies or birth families, parenting children with trauma histories, and emotional overwhelm.
• Emotional Wellness Tools: Learn practical ways to support your own mental health while showing up fully for your child’s needs.
• Meaningful Connections: Build community with fellow parents who deeply understand the layered, beautiful, and sometimes difficult journey of foster and adoptive parenting.

Who Should Join?
This group is for any parent who is currently parenting through adoption or foster care—at any stage of the journey. Whether you’re in the early stages, managing long-term placements, or anywhere in between, your experience is welcome here.

Logistics:

• Format: Virtual via secure video conferencing
• Duration: 1 hour
• Frequency: Monthly on the third Thursday of the month @ 6pm CST

Join Us:

Your path to parenthood may look different—but it is powerful, meaningful, and deeply worthy of support. Join Mamaya Health’s Adoption & Foster Parent Support Group to find understanding, connection, and strength in a community that sees and supports you.