1555 Sherman Ave, #173
Evanston, Illinois 60201
Contact
Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

  1. What Information Do We Collect? When you visit our website you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and website use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our website.
  2. Personal Information You Choose to Provide We may request that you voluntarily supply us with personal information, including your email address, postal address, home or work telephone number and other personal information for such purposes as correspondence, placing an order, requesting an estimate, or participating in online surveys. If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information received by mail and telephone.
  3. Website Use Information Similar to other websites, our site may utilize a standard technology called "cookies" (see explanation below, "What Are Cookies?") and web server logs to collect information about how our website is used. Information gathered through cookies and server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our website, and the sites visited just before and just after ours. This information is collected on an aggregate basis. None of this information is associated with you as an individual.
  4. How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us? Broadly speaking, we use personal information for purposes of administering our business activities, providing service and support and making available other products and services to our customers and prospective customers. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our website, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. The lists used to send you product and service offers are developed and managed under our traditional standards designed to safeguard the security and privacy of all personal information provided by our users. You may at any time to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers.
  5. What Are Cookies? Cookies are a feature of web browser software that allows web servers to recognize the computer used to access a website. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored by a user's web browser on the user's hard drive. Cookies can remember what information a user accesses on one web page to simplify subsequent interactions with that website by the same user or to use the information to streamline the user's transactions on related web pages. This makes it easier for a user to move from web page to web page and to complete commercial transactions over the Internet. Cookies should make your online experience easier and more personalized.
  6. How Do We Use Information Collected From Cookies? We use website browser software tools such as cookies and web server logs to gather information about our website users' browsing activities, in order to constantly improve our website and better serve our users. This information assists us to design and arrange our web pages in the most user-friendly manner and to continually improve our website to better meet the needs of our users and prospective users. Cookies help us collect important business and technical statistics. The information in the cookies lets us trace the paths followed by users to our website as they move from one page to another. Web server logs allow us to count how many people visit our website and evaluate our website's visitor capacity. We do not use these technologies to capture your individual email address or any personally identifying information about you.
  7. Notice of New Services and Changes Occasionally, we may use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our website, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. As a user of our website, you will be given the opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers by clicking on a response box when you receive such an offer or by sending us an email request.
  8. How Do We Secure Information Transmissions? When you send confidential personal information to us on our website, a secure server software which we have licensed encrypts all information you input before it is sent to us. The information is scrambled en route and decoded once it reaches our website. Other email that you may send to us may not be secure unless we advise you that security measures will be in place prior to your transmitting the information. For that reason, we ask that you do not send confidential information such as Social Security, credit card, or account numbers to us through an unsecured email.
  9. How Do We Protect Your Information? Information Security -- We utilize encryption/security software to safeguard the confidentiality of personal information we collect from unauthorized access or disclosure and accidental loss, alteration or destruction. Evaluation of Information Protection Practices -- Periodically, our operations and business practices are reviewed for compliance with organization policies and procedures governing the security, confidentiality and quality of our information. Employee Access, Training and Expectations -- Our organization values, ethical standards, policies and practices are committed to the protection of user information. In general, our business practices limit employee access to confidential information, and limit the use and disclosure of such information to authorized persons, processes and transactions.
  10. How Can You Access and Correct Your Information? You may request access to all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in our database by emailing us using the contact form provided to you within the site structure of our website.
  11. Do We Disclose Information to Outside Parties? We may provide aggregate information about our customers, sales, website traffic patterns and related website information to our affiliates or reputable third parties, but this information will not include personally identifying data, except as otherwise provided in this privacy policy.
  12. What About Legally Compelled Disclosure of Information? We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights.
  13. Permission to Use of Materials The right to download and store or output the materials in our website is granted for the user's personal use only, and materials may not be reproduced in any edited form. Any other reproduction, transmission, performance, display or editing of these materials by any means mechanical or electronic without our express written permission is strictly prohibited. Users wishing to obtain permission to reprint or reproduce any materials appearing on this site may contact us directly.
Terms & Conditions

Terms & Conditions

Donation Refund Policy

We are grateful for your donation and support of our organization. If you have made an error in making your donation or change your mind about contributing to our organization please contact us. Refunds are returned using the original method of payment. If you made your donation by credit card, your refund will be credited to that same credit card.

Automated Recurring Donation Cancellation

Ongoing support is important to enabling projects to continue their work, so we encourage donors to continue to contribute to projects over time. But if you must cancel your recurring donation, please notify us.
© Activism in Adoption

Most adoption education ends before an adoption is finalized,

but where other adoption education programs stop,

we are just getting started.

Activism in Adoption is not just an educational series, but a movement dedicated to privileging the voices of birthparents and adoptees in adoption education in order to improve outcomes for everyone in the adoption constellation. Developed by On Your Feet Foundation, a secular, independent non-profit organization dedicated to providing birthparents with the support and community they need to heal, this speaker series provides a safe space in which our speakers are able to speak openly about adoption topics with the kind of nuance and lived experience necessary to provide the adoption education you deserve.

No matter where you are in the adoption constellation,

which includes grandparents, extended birth family, and adoption professionals,

along side adoptive parents, adoptees, and birthparents

– Activism in Adoption is for you.

 

What Makes Us Different?

Who We Are: On Your Feet Foundation is the gold-standard for post-placement care. With over 20 years of experience caring for birthparents, we have seen firsthand the damage caused when everyone in the adoption constellation hasn't received the education they need.

Who Our Experts Are: Most adoption education silences adoptee and birthparent voices, letting others in the adoption constellation speak over them or for them. We do things differently, because we know that when we center the needs and experiences of birthparents and adoptees, the outcomes for everyone in adoption can change for the better. These voices are critical in changing the adoption landscape for the better, but too often, they are left out of adoption education entirely,

What You Need: Most adoption education is aimed at potential adoptive parents as they start their adoption journey, and addresses the transition of bringing a new baby into the home. Where most training ends, Activism in Adoption starts, by covering the entire parenting journey, from the experiences of an expectant mother considering adoption to how to help your adult adoptee successfully navigate a reunion relationship with their birth family.

Part of a trans-racial adoption? Our modules on race start with renowned expert on race in America, Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum, author of the award winning book, Why are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria. Instead of focusing on what it is like to adopt a transracial infant, Activism in Adoption focuses on the entire transracial experience by bringing in adult adoptees like Nam Holtz, Kevin Hofmann, and Isaac Etter, who not only recount how growing up in white families impacted them as adults but are also able to provide practical suggestions and resources for ensuring that adoptive parents are better able to address racial difference in their family and have the tools necessary to provide their child the resources they need to thrive.

Struggling to navigate a relationship with your child's birth family? Hear birthmothers like Liz Pryor, Hope O Baker, and Cathy Crossno as they discuss what it means to place a child for adoption, including how they came to that choice, how they experienced the aftermath of that choice, and what impact that aftermath had on their relationship with their child's adoptive family.

Worried about what happens next if your adult adoptee seeks out and finds their birthmother?  Nearly all adoption education focuses on adopting a baby, but does not address the birthparent/adoptive parent relationships as that baby grows into a teen, and then an adult. We hear a lot about preparing for openness in the early years of an adoptee's life. But what does the relationship look as the adoptee grows up? How do we prepare for a healthy open relationship through those years? Join two seasoned birthmothers, Vicki Twomey and Jessica Figlio, who have each experienced over 20 years of openness in adoption, as they share their stories.  

The When and Where: All of our Activism in Adoption sessions are recorded live on Zoom in front of an audience. As soon as your 30-day pass is active, you will have access to the entire catalog, including complimentary registration for any live sessions occurring during your 30-Day Access, giving you the opportunity to pick and choose the sessions that best speak to your personal needs, instead of being stuck completing adoption education in areas that do not pertain to your experiences, and you can watch them when it best suits your schedule.

 

It's never too late to get the adoption education you and your family deserve. Sign up today to begin your journey in adoption activism.