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
This month's Activism in Adoption speaker is writer, musician, filmmaker, and birthmother Kate Stapleton, who is joining us to discuss her award winning film, The Inner Sea. We sat down with Kate this week to talk about what prompted her to create this documentary, the process of being a first-time filmmaker, and to get a little advice on how to pursue an abundantly creative life.
We don't work with expectant parents, or parents considering adoption, but for the past 25 years we have been helping and supporting birthparents - parents who have already relinquished a child or children - and we know firsthand that adoption, as it is currently practiced, needs ethical reform. The birthparents who come to us tell us so, over and over again. They tell us that if someone had simply supported them, if resources had been available, if anyone had asked what they actually wanted, things might have been different. We listen to them, and today, we are sharing what we've learned from them.
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.
