What We Do
Shared Journeys (formerly On Your Feet Foundation) is the gold standard in post-placement support for birthparents.
We believe birthparents deserve real, lasting support, and we've built everything we offer around that belief. Whether you're looking for guidance, a space to process your experience, or simply people who understand what you've been through, we're here.
Through Shared Journeys, you have access to:
- A dedicated case manager in your corner: someone to connect you to community resources, lend a listening ear, help you set goals, and more
- Adoption-competent therapists trained to support birthparents
- Therapeutic retreats for healing and renewal
- A vibrant birthparent community where you can find peer support and real friendship
News & Notes
Dr. Abigail Hasberry, a transracially adopted person and birthmother, sat down with us today to talk about her memoir, Adopting Privilege: A Memoir of Reinventing my Adoptee Narrative, which was released on February 18th, 2025. Through the lens of memoir, Dr. Hasberry takes a deep-dive into adoptee experience in transracial adoption, the adoption industry, and ultimately, how she found growth and healing.
Meet this year's Create! Birthparent Arts Grant winner, Sydney S., who combined artistic creativity with entrepreneurship, using her art to solve a real-world problem. Buying Birthday, Mother's Day, and other holiday cards can be a real challenge for adoption constellation members, because the pre-written greetings often don't match our relationships or experiences. Sydney developed a line of greeting cards specifically for those relationships, giving adoptive parents, adopted people, and birthparents new ways to connect through cards and messages created especially for them.
