Virtual Support Groups
Adult Adoptees
Connect with other adult adoptees from around Wisconsin. This will be a space for discussing your adoption experiences with others who “get it”, as well as for just getting to know one another and talking about life. This group is facilitated by an area adult adoptee.
Open Mic Teen Support Group
Join other Wisconsin teens of adoptive, foster, relative/kinship, or guardianship families for a live, video group session to socially connect and discuss topics related to challenges that arise in these family dynamics. This support group will be facilitated by Journeys Program Support Specialists with occasional guest speakers with lived experiences (adult adoptees, adults with previous out-of-home care experiences).
Cozy Connections Book Club Virtual
Gather your people, brew some tea, and crack open a good book because connection starts with a story. The Wisconsin Family Connections Center now has book club kits ready to help individuals come together, laugh, learn, and feel less alone. Whether you are a foster, adoptive, or kinship caregiver – this group is for you! This online book club will meet every other week beginning near the end of February.
Open Mic Teen Support Group
Coffee Talk for Adoptive and Guardianship Parents
Grab your coffee and join us for a relaxed morning (virtual) chat with other adoptive, foster, and guardianship parents to connect and feel supported. This is an informal group with no set agenda.
Coffee Talk for Adoptive and Guardianship Parents
Birth Parent Support
An online support group for birth/first parents who have placed a child for adoption (either voluntarily or involuntarily). This group will meet on the 2nd Tuesday of every other month and will be facilitated by a Journeys Program Support Specialist. Join the conversation!
KINnect Relative Caregivers of Children-Morning
Please continue to join us for this opportunity to connect with other parents and grandparents as a way to share the joys and challenges of being a relative caregiver. Our meetings will continue to be held virtually on the last Thursday of the month from 11am-12pm.
Connected Parenting
Adoptive, Kinship & Guardianship parents and caregivers: Please join us for a trauma-informed virtual support group just for you! This groups is especially for caregivers who are:
-Parenting youth with trauma histories
-Parenting youth with emotional or behavioral challenges and/or diagnoses such as RAD, DMDD, & ODD.
Trauma Informed Parenting Support
Foster Parent Support
Please join us for this opportunity to connect with other Wisconsin foster parents and take time out of your day to have some fun! Meetings are held monthly via Zoom from 11 am-12 pm.