Support, connection, and learning — updated regularlyÂ
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.
🗓️Wednesday, February 18 | 1:00 PM
🗣️ Facilitator: Patricia Conan Estabrooks
👉 Register for Building Families
👉 Learn more about this program
Profile sharing session - English
Who it’s for
These sessions are intended for individuals and families who have completed the adoption application process, are approved to adopt, and are currently waiting to be matched. If you are unsure whether this session is right for you, your adoption social worker can help you decide.
What to expect
In these sessions, adoption social workers share non-identifying profiles of children who need stability, commitment, and care. The focus is on helping you better understand who these children are — their strengths, their needs, and the kinds of support that can help them thrive within a family.
đź”— Learn more about Building Families (English)
🔗 En savoir plus sur Une famille pour tous (Français)
🗓️Thursday, February 19 | 8:00 PM
🗣️ Facilitator: Jessica Ferguson & Heather Fortuny
👉 Register for this meeting
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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.
🗓️Tuesday, February 24 | 8:00 PM
🗣️ Facilitator: Karolyn Martin
👉 Register for While You're Waiting
👉 Learn more about this program
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.
Information and support for pre-adoptive parents - English
February Topic:
When Love Needs a Different Language (Trauma-Informed Parenting)
Along your journey to becoming an adoptive or foster parent, you may have heard about “trauma-informed parenting”, but what does this actually mean, and why is it needed? This month, we will be joined by Kim Driscoll, a Support Coordinator with the New Brunswick Adoption Foundation. Kim is both a biological and adoptive parent, and will be drawing on her personal and professional experiences to define what “trauma-informed parenting” means in real time– and how parenting children who have been separated from their birth families can be very different than parenting children born into safety.Â
Kim will focus on:
Brain differences in children with trauma histories
How these differences can lead to more challenging behaviours
How to respond without unintentionally making things worse
Connection vs. Consequences (and then repair)
Please join us for what is sure to be a practical and informative discussion on a topic relevant to anyone waiting to adopt!Â
🗓️Thursday, February 26 | 8:00 PM
🗣️ Facilitator: Kim Driscoll
👉 Register for Late Night Talks
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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.
🗓️Wednesday, February 25 | 8:00 PM
🗣️ Facilitator: Patricia, Heather, & Sylvie
👉 Register for Plus forts ensemble
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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.
🗓️Thursday, March 12 | 8:00 PM
🗣️ Facilitator: Kim Driscoll
👉 Register for Late Night Talks
đź”— 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.