Find Your Community
No matter your connection to adoption or foster care—whether you’re an adoptee, a first parent or a dedicated advocate—you are not alone.
Across Canada, there’s a network of organizations offering support, education and advocacy. These groups are working every day to inform, uplift and create meaningful change in the adoption and child welfare landscape.
Explore below to connect with the communities that understand your journey.
Canadian Adoption, First Family & Foster Care Advocacy Groups
Parent Finders of Canada
A national, volunteer-run organization dedicated to supporting all members of the adoption community in search and reunion. Parent Finders provides peer support, education and advocacy to help reconnect families separated by adoption.
parentfindersottawa.ca
National Council of Youth in Care Advocates
A peer-led national organization advocating for the rights and well-being of youth and alumni of the child welfare system.
ncyica.ca
Asian Adoptees of Canada
A space for adult Asian adoptees to share experiences, explore identity and build cultural community.
asianadoptees.ca
Child Welfare League of Canada
Promotes progressive child welfare policy and system accountability across provinces.
www.cwlc.ca
Concerned United Birthparents (CUB) (USA & Canada)
Established to provide peer support, education, healing and advocacy, CUB aims to address the lifelong emotional impact of adoption. The focus is on all members of the adoption triad—birth parents, adoptees and adoptive families.
concernedunitedbirthparents.org
Forget Me Not Family Society
Forget Me Not Family Society supports anyone touched by adoption. This includes birth parents, adoptees, adoptive parents and professionals. They offer peer-based services and education in British Columbia (and Alberta).
adoptioncircles.net
Government & Community Resources (Ontario)
These organizations and government bodies offer services or access to records related to adoption in Ontario.
- Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies (OACAS)
- Children’s Aid Society of Toronto
- Catholic Children’s Aid Society of Toronto
- Jewish Family and Child Service of Greater Toronto
- Native Child and Family Services of Toronto
- Province of Ontario – Search for Adoption Records
North American Organizations
Helping Survivors – Foster Care Abuse (US)
Offers support and resources to individuals who have experienced sexual abuse in foster care or group home settings, where the risk is significantly higher than in the general population.
Helping Survivors – Foster Care Abuse (US)
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Forget Me Not Family Society supports anyone touched by adoption—birth parents, adoptees, adoptive parents and professionals—through peer-based services and education in British Columbia (and Alberta)
adoptioncircles.net
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