Adoptee Mentoring Society: Adoptee Mentoring Society works towards building a community for adopted persons worldwide. They offer 1:1 virtual mentorships that are designed for adoptees to delve into their adoption story. Mentors receive training that is designed to ensure they support adoptees through listening, reframing, and offering resources and companionship. The goal is for adoptees to feel empowered and develop agency over their adoption narrative. They also offer The Adoptee Lounge that is a drop-in style support group, so adoptees can and will likely meet new individuals.

Adoptees Supporting Adoptees: Adoptees Supporting Adoptees is a non-judgmental group for adoptees to come and share their stories…to know they are not alone in their journeys. They accept positive and negative experiences. They are not doctors or psychologists, they just know what it feels like.

Adoption Mosaic:An organization that helps nurture a space where the adoption constellation/community feels valued, heard, understood, and accepted. They offer a variety of services for adoptees. They have a support group called Adoptee Beacon that focuses on exploring the layers of estrangement and fostering a deeper understanding of one's unique adoptee experience. They also host a number of events throughout the year online and in person.

• We the Experts Adoptee and Non-Adoptee Panel Series:We the Experts (WTE) is an adoptee-centered space where adoptees share their lived experiences in a supportive community. Non-adoptees are welcome to attend as listeners and learners. Each panel is recorded and provided to registrants, along with relevant resources. Topics have included LGBTQ+ and Adoptee Identity, Reunion, Relationships, Transracial Adoptee Identity, Substance Use, Birth/First Parents, and Religion.

Also-Known-As: The mission of Also-Known-As is to build a community that empowers the voices of adult international adoptees, while providing resources and space to acknowledge the loss of birth country, culture, language, and biological family.

Children's Home Society of Minnesota: They offer a variety of support groups for members of the adoption and foster care community. You do not have to be a resident of Minnesota to attend these online groups.

InterCountry Adoptee Voice (ICAV): ICAV provides a platform for adoptees to connect in, share, educate, and advocate to the wider public about the issues we face – political, social and emotional, including the not so positive aspects of intercountry adoption.

Therapy Redeemed: A Korean Adoptee Therapist, Cam Lee Small offers group and individual services for adoptees. Cam has many free resources on his website.

Voices of Adoption: Voices of Adoption (VOA), founded in 2019 at Spence-Chapin, is an adoptee-led community-based space where adoptees 18+ from all over the world meet for an evening of conversation and connection. In the fall of 2022, they announced the launch of Teen Voices of Adoption, a virtual space for adoptees 13-17 years old. Both Voices of Adoption are free for all participants to join, although registration is required.

CHINA

China - Birthparent Search: A private Facebook group for Chinese adoptees and adoptive parents and other close relatives of Chinese adoptees. The subject of this group is searching for birthparents in China.

Parents and Childen Adoption from China: A Facebook group of families with children adopted from China. The group comes together to talk about common issues and topics in support of raising healthy happy children.

ETHIOPIA

Ethiopia Homeland Travel and Birth Family Contact: A private Facebook group for Ethiopian adoptive parents, adoptees, and birth parents. The group is for adoption-related homeland trips to Ethiopia.

GUATEMALA

Adoptees with Guatemalan Roots: The Facebook page for AWGR. They are adult adoptees that come from all across Guatemala. They come together to share stories of where they came from, where they have been, and where they are now!

Teens Adopted from Guatemala: A peer support group for adoptees from Guatemala, ages 13-18, designed to provide a fun small community for adoptees to connect, learn a little bit about their country, and share/relate to some of the struggles adoption entails.

INDIA

Voices of Adoptees from India: A private Facebook group for adoptees from India.

KOREA

325KAMRA: A public Facebook group for reuniting families through DNA: A group helping reunite Koreans thru the use of DNA to their Korean families.

Also-Known-As, Inc: A public Facebook group created by adoptees for adoptees: Also-Known-As, Inc., began in early 1996 out of a desire to create an organization that recognized and gave a voice to the tri-state community of people whose lives, through adoption, bridge nations, cultures and races. Their mission and programs have expanded to include not only the experiences of Korean-born intercountry adoptees, and families but, all families created by intercountry adoption and the unique experiences of transcultured people, seeking to share the human experiences of adoption.

VIETNAM

Adopted Vietnamese International (AVI) Facebook Group: A group created by Viet adoptees. For the voices of Vietnamese adoptees, foster kids, and orphans. This includes anyone originating from a Vietnamese orphanage, refugee camp, born at sea in a refugee boat or processing/detention centre, or as 2nd generation diaspora ending up in state care.

VAN | Vietnamese Adoptee Network: Originally founded in 2000, the Vietnamese Adoptee Network sought to maximize the Vietnamese adoptee experience in a caring, supportive environment by networking them to other Vietnamese adoptees and community resources. One of the primary reasons VAN was created was to have a safe medium for Vietnamese adoptees to express themselves and find their voice.

PERU

The Network of Peruvian Adoptees: A Facebook for Peruvian adoptees that hold virtual groups through the month for adoptees to connect and socialize.

MULTI CULTURAL & EDUCATIONAL

Adoptees Supporting Adoptees: Adoptees Supporting Adoptees is a non-judgmental group for adoptees to come and share their stories…to know they are not alone in their journeys. They accept positive and negative experiences. They are not doctors or psychologists, they just know what it feels like.

Bridge Communications: Bridge Communications does diversity training and adoption education with a special emphasis on transracial/transcultural adoption, both domestic and international. The goal is to educate adoptive parents and adoption professionals on becoming a positive multiracial/multicultural adoptive family that allows the child to develop a healthy 1) racial identity, 2) self identity, and 3) family identity. Being a multiracial family is wonderful but it is different than being a monoracial family and it has its own challenges. Bridge firmly believes while love is the beginning of a solid foundation of a multiracial family; love is not enough in a world that is not colorblind. This is why we help parents with tools, including being able to respond to intrusive and inappropriate questions and comments about adoption and race. 

AFRICA

ETHIOPIA

Beteseb Felega: Ethiopian Family Search and Adoption Connection: A grassroots effort to reunite family members separated by adoption. Restoring history and relationships through hundreds of searches solved. An American NGO registered to operate in Ethiopia.

Ethiopian Adoptees Foundation: Ethiopian Adoptees Foundation (EAF) was founded in October 2020 to provide a platform for Ethiopian adoptees to connect, explore their cultural heritage, and support each other. The organization focuses on three core missions: connect, equip, and empower.

LATIN AMERICA

Adoptees of South America + Extended Latin Americas: A peer centered group for adult adoptees from various regions of South America and Extended Latin Americas or those whose biological family have ties to these regions. Their mission is to provide adoptees with a space for connection, support and encouragement in any step of their journeys. 

COLOMBIA

Healing Puentes: Healing Puentes takes a comprehensive approach to the adoption triad that involves adoptees, adoptive family members and the biological family to offer support and guidance in the search process and reunion in Colombia. The hope is to create a path for post adoption transformation, to find a way to reconnect with our roots and culture, the different aspects of our identity and bridge the spaces within

GUATEMALA

Adoptees With Guatemalan Roots: Adoptive Family travel partnered with Adoptees With Guatemalan Roots in 2023. AWGR is a charitable organization that advances education on the topic of adoption from Guatemala. Their vision is to help Guatemalan adoptees find their identity and connect to our roots in Guatemala. There were around 50,000 people adopted from Guatemala before international adoption from Guatemala closed in 2008. They are a global community of people adopted from Guatemala. AWGR seeks to build community and provide resources for Guatemalan adoptees.

Guatemalan Adoptee Futures Lab: Founded by Amalia Deloney, a futurist adopted from Guatemala. The Guatemalan Adoptee Futures Lab is the first (and only!) futures lab created by and for adoptees. They use participatory futures methods and practices to collectively explore and design futures that reimagine family + belonging, drawing on the lived experience of Guatemalan adoptees throughout the diaspora. Using a hybrid approach, they blend the creative and exploratory nature of a studio with the experimental and research-oriented approach of a lab. This fusion allows for the generation of innovative ideas and the practical testing of those ideas.

ASIA

Asian Adoptees of Canada:Asian Adoptees of Canada is a national Canadian registered non-profit organization, established for the purpose of connecting and supporting Canada’s Asian adoptee community.

Asian Adult Adoptees of Washington:Asian Adult Adoptees of Washington (AAAW) strives to enable adoptees to connect, share their stories and perspectives with each other, empower adoptees to explore their adoptee identity, serve as a resource for adoptees, and support adoptees wherever they are in their journey.

PHILIPPINES

Filipino Adoptee Network (FAN):The Filipino Adoptees Network (FAN) cyber community was conceptualized by two Filipinas because of the lack of supportive websites for adoptees. Thanks to the internet, Lorial Crowder and Sharon Cuartero were reunited in 2003 after a decade of no communication. By happenstance, both wanted to develop a website for fellow adoptees from the Philippines – to speak out and share our experiences, network with other adoptees, and provide a one-stop resource portal to learn about the rich culture of the Philippines and Filipino communities in the United States and elsewhere. The FAN website was created to provide the online community that was not available to older adoptees as we were growing up; and to be a support network to adoptees as they venture to cope, understand, share and celebrate their adoption.

KAZAKHSTAN

FRUA: FAMILIES FOR RUSSIAN & UKRAINIAN ADOPTION (FRUA) offers hope, help and community for families completed through adoption in Eastern European and central Asian countries. An international 501(c)(3) support organization with chapters across the US and members around the world, it is an all-volunteer organization. FRUA focuses on international adoption support resources, providing a relationship structure that nurtures children and parents, as well as access to family support resources, an understanding community and the FRUA National Education Conference. The adopted children of FRUA’s families come from all former Soviet block countries, including Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria, Belarus, Romania and many more. FRUA celebrates the rich heritage of our children’s birth countries and our Orphanage Support efforts ensure we never forget the children left behind in those orphanages.

Kazakh Aul of the United States:This organization serves to educate and enrich the lives of children from Kazakhstan who are growing up in the US. Together with their families, children participate in Kazakh heritage camp and cultural education to develop a deeper sense of knowledge and understanding of their birth culture, and how they fit into both the Kazakh and American worlds. Kazakh Aul of the United States host Zhailau Heritage camp annually in New Hampshire.

Kazapalooza:Kazapalooza is a fun-filled weekend reunion of families who have adopted children from Kazakhstan. It is held annually on the third weekend of June.

KOREA

G.O.A.’L – Global Overseas Adoptee Link:An adoptee-led organization that acts as a ‘link’ between adult adoptees and their native country by providing services and resources to its members, creating partnerships, and collaborating with governmental and nongovernmental organizations while serving the local and greater communities.

InKAS – International Korean Adoptee Service, Inc.:InKAS is a non-profit Korean post-adoption organization established in 1999 to protect the welfare and rights of all overseas adoptees and adoptive families. InKAS provides ongoing services and assistance for Korean adoptees and their adoptive families as well as support adoptees to discover their heritage and recollect a sense of unity as an ethnic Korean.

KAAN….Korean American Adoptive Family Network: Korean American Adoptee Adoptive Family Network. Adoptees, Adoptive Parents and Korean Americans are involved in this organization, making it a most inclusive organization. KAAN is a network that links individuals and organizations across the United States and Canada.

SEJONG:Sejong fosters a sense of Korean-American cultural identity for families formed by adoption, birth, marriage, or choice; through education, mentorship, and community building.

Paperslip: Paperslip.org was founded in 2020. They are a volunteer organization of Korean Adoptees adopted through Korea Social Services / KSS (S. Korea), dedicated to helping other adult Korean Adoptees who were adopted through KSS and its Partner Western Adoption Agencies.

EUROPE

RUSSIA AND EASTERN EUROPE

FRUA: FAMILIES FOR RUSSIAN & UKRAINIAN ADOPTION (FRUA) offers hope, help and community for families completed through adoption in Eastern European and central Asian countries. An international 501(c)(3) support organization with chapters across the US and members around the world, it is an all-volunteer organization. FRUA focuses on international adoption support resources, providing a relationship structure that nurtures children and parents, as well as access to family support resources, an understanding community and the FRUA National Education Conference. The adopted children of FRUA’s families come from all former Soviet block countries, including Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria, Belarus, Romania and many more. FRUA celebrates the rich heritage of our children’s birth countries and our Orphanage Support efforts ensure we never forget the children left behind in those orphanages.