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Support, connection, and learning — updated regularly
Find upcoming support groups, programs, and workshops offered through the NB Adoption Foundation Support Network. Meetings are organized by program area to help you find what fits your current needs.
For full program descriptions, visit our Programs Overview page.
🗓️Thursday, June 18 | 8:00 PM
🗣️ Facilitator: Kim Driscoll
👉 Register for Late Night Talks
🔗 Learn more about this program
Who it’s for
Adoptive, pre-adoptive, foster, and kinship parents and caregivers, as well as adults impacted by adoption and care
What to expect
Late Night Talks is a confidential peer support space where participants can talk openly about the challenges, questions, and moments of connection that come with adoption and caregiving. Sessions emphasize listening, shared understanding, and reassurance — without pressure to problem-solve or have answers.
This group supports connection across different stages of the journey and helps caregivers feel less alone.
🗓️Tuesday, June 23 | 8:00 PM
🗣️Facilitator: Karolyn Martin
👉 Register for While You're Waiting
👉 Learn more about this program
This month, we are honoured to welcome Susie, a seasoned foster parent and biological parent, to lead us in a discussion on preparing for and navigating a child's transition into a permanent family. We will explore common emotional and behavioural responses to transitions, strategies for supporting attachment, connection, and regulation, and ways caregivers can care for themselves during times of change.
Information and support for pre-adoptive parents - English
Who it’s for
Pre-adoptive parents who are considering adoption, waiting for a match, placement, or next steps in their adoption journey, and are looking for guidance, information, and support during the waiting period.
What to expect
While You’re Waiting is a guided support series created specifically for pre-adoptive parents. Sessions feature guest presenters, such as professionals, experienced caregivers, and adoption-informed speakers, who share different perspectives, practical information, and insight into the adoption process.
Alongside learning, the series creates space to talk about uncertainty, questions, and emotions that often arise while waiting, offering both reassurance and connection during this stage.
🗓️Wednesday, July 15 | 8:00 PM
🗣️Facilitator: Heather & Sylvie
👉 Register for Plus forts ensemble
🔗 Learn more about this program
Who it’s for
This group is open to adoptive parents, prospective adopters, foster parents, and kinship caregivers looking for a community that speaks their language and understands their journey.
What to Expect
A warm, confidential, and non-judgmental space to connect with peers. You can expect open discussions on topics like child behavior, school challenges, and family adaptation. We share practical strategies and emotional support for every stage of the adoption and fostering process.
🗓️Wednesday, July 15 | 8:00 PM
🗣️Facilitator: Sylvie Caron & Heather Fortuny
👉 Register for this meeting
🔗 Learn more about this program
Peer Support Group - bilingual
Who it’s for
Caregivers parenting tweens and teens within adoption, foster care, or kinship care.
What to expect
Riding the Wave offers a peer support space focused specifically on the emotional realities of parenting tweens and teens. Sessions invite caregivers to share experiences, reflect together, and support one another through a stage that often brings intensity, uncertainty, and change.
This session is offered as a bilingual group. Participants are welcome to participate in the language they are most comfortable using.
🗓️Thursday, July 16 | 8:00 PM
🗣️Facilitator: Sara Wilson, Trauma-Responsive Practices & Nervous System Regulation Practitioner
👉 Register
Webinar
From Surviving to Thriving with Foster, Adoptive, and Kinship Families and the Professionals Who Support Them
Who it’s for
Foster and adoptive families, kinship caregivers, waiting parents, and the Child Welfare Professionals who support them.
What to expect
Children who have experienced early relational trauma and loss carry that history in their nervous systems. This shapes everything: how they perceive the world, how they respond, and why traditional parenting approaches often don't work.
Here's what you'll gain by attending:
🧠 Understanding the Nervous System: Move past "techniques" and discover a deeper way of being in a relationship with a child whose nervous system has learned to protect itself.
🤝 Bridging Theory & Reality: Translate complex research on early trauma, felt safety, and neurodivergence into practical, everyday understanding.
💡 Neuroaffirming Insights: Learn from an expert approach that centres equity, genuine relational safety, and the lived experiences of children and youth across adoption, kinship care, and foster placements.
🗓️Thursday, July 30 | 12 noon
🗣️ Facilitator: Kim Driscoll
👉 Register for Lunch Time Talks
🔗 Learn more about this program
Who it’s for
Adoptive, pre-adoptive, foster, and kinship parents and caregivers, as well as adults impacted by adoption and care
What to expect
Lunch Time Talks is a confidential peer support space where participants can talk openly about the challenges, questions, and moments of connection that come with adoption and caregiving. Sessions emphasize listening, shared understanding, and reassurance — without pressure to problem-solve or have answers.
This group supports connection across different stages of the journey and helps caregivers feel less alone.