On Your Feet Foundation is now the Birthparent Support Alliance.
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If you are a birthparent, everything you need is with Shared Journeys Collective, a therapeutic and welcoming space providing programming, community, and support for birthparents, at no cost to them.
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If you are looking for adoption education, visit Activism in Adoption for modern adoption education aimed at improving outcomes for every member of the adoption constellation.
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If you have been affected by adoption - as an adopted person, an adoptive parent, an adoption professional, or through supporting a birthparent along their journey, stay here to learn more about the new Birthparent Support Alliance.
"When you can't hold yourself up, the Birthparent Support Alliance will. Whether it be an employee, another birthmother you meet, or a group that is here, all these things help you live with adoption and the role it played in your life."
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Retreats held since 200561
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Grants awarded since 2015183
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Dollars awarded since 2015$72,454
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Birthparents accessing services since 20151,000
Dr. Gretchen Sisson, a former Activism in Adoption speaker and upcoming honoree at Birthparent Support Alliance's 2026 gala joined us to discuss her book, Relinquished, and how her decades-long research study and subsequent findings can inform cultural approaches to adoption.
Yesterday, we made our new name change and organizational structure changes official. Today, our Executive Director, Alexis Eyler, MSW, shares with you all why those changes were necessary.
We sit down with Activism in Adoption speaker Dr. Maxine Bryant, to talk about her new book, Finding Peoples, A Family’s Journey Through Six Decades of Separation and Hope, which she wrote with her biological siblings. This book offers a unique and intimate look at adoption from dual perspectives: Maxine's story, as an adopted person, and the stories of her biological siblings, who watched her go. It is incredibly rare to hear an adoption story told by both biological family and adoptee, and those voices together make for a powerful and memorable read.
