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Activism in Adoption is organized around three key concepts:

Race, Relationships, and Resilience;

centering birthparent and adoptee voices,

which bring nuance and detail that can only come from lived experience.


When we listen to the individuals whose lives are most impacted by adoption, when we allow ourselves to sit in uncomfortable spaces, we learn and we grow, we begin to understand the ethics, and sometimes the lack of ethics in adoption, and we become the change-makers - improving outcomes in adoption for our children, for ourselves as adoptive parents and adoption professionals, and for the birthparents who chose to place their children for adoption.

We are Stronger Together.

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    "On Your Feet Foundation is one of the most proactive groups I’ve been a part of in the adoption field. Their recent speaker series made a point to honor all those connected to adoption. As an adoptee, I pay very close attention to how others honor adoptees, like myself, as well as birth parents. On Your Feet Foundation makes sure these two very important voices are heard and that is extremely important to me."

    Kevin Hofmann, AiA Speaker and panelist

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We put together a comprehensive, state-by-state resource list for anyone currently struggling with food insecurity. Please use this if you need it, and send the link to anyone you know who may be struggling right now and in need of help.

In June 2023, The US Supreme Court released its decision on Haaland vs Brackeen, a case that challenged the constitutionality of the ICWA. The plaintiffs, a non-Indigenous Texan couple named Chad and Jennifer Brackeen, claimed that the ICWA's preference for placing Indigenous children with foster parents from their tribal nations discriminates against non-Indigenous individuals who wish to adopt Indigenous children. in the aftermath of that decision, we have put together a brief overview of ICWA and why it is a critical component of adoption law.

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.

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