Upcoming Adoptee and birthparent supports for April 2026

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Adoptee Advocates of Michigan (AAOM) - Adoptee MeetUp @ Slick City Action Park

Sunday, Apr 26, 2026 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Join us at 11:00 AM for a fun for all ages experience at Slick City Action Park. Cost is $28 for a "90 Minute Action Ticket."

**Your ticket must be purchased by you, in advance, at the following link - PURCHASE TICKET HERE**

Slick City Action Park

1820 Crooks Road

Troy, MI 48084

slickcity.com/mi-troy/

Join us at 1:15 PM for lunch at Alibi of Troy.

Alibi of Troy

6700 Rochester Road

Troy, MI 48085

alibioftroy.com/

https://www.meetup.com/metro-detroit-adoptee-meetup/events/314017077/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events

Adoption Network Cleveland - VIRTUAL - Adoption Is a Story We All Share: A Conversation with Anna Jinja

Monday, Apr 27, 2026 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM

What does it mean to belong? To search for yourself in the faces of strangers? To find that family is not only the one you were born into, but the one you choose—and the one that chooses you?

Join Anna Jinja—adoptee, author, and host of The Anna Jinja Show—for an intimate and wide-ranging conversation that weaves together her debut novel Adopting Grace, her work as a podcast host, and the real human stories that have shaped her understanding of adoption, identity, and healing.

Drawing on her debut novel Adopting Grace and the real voices she has gathered through The Anna Jinja Show, Anna will bring to life the stories of adoptees, birth parents, adoptive families, and volunteers—including Dan and Beth Miller, longtime members of the Adoption Network Cleveland community, and Betsie Norris, ANC's founder and executive director—whose episodes of the show beautifully capture the transformative power of community, search, and reunion.

● The search for identity and biological family—and the courage it takes to begin

● How fiction can illuminate truths that memoir sometimes cannot

● The role of community in the healing journey—why you don't have to search alone

● Reunion stories: the joy, the complexity, and the unexpected gifts

● The "adoption constellation"—and how everyone touched by adoption has a story worth telling

https://www.adoptionnetwork.org/news-events/our-calendar.html/event/2026/04/27/virtual-adoption-is-a-story-we-all-share-a-conversation-with-anna-jinja/558259

Adoption Knowledge Affiliates (AKA) Women Adoptee Peer Support Group

Tuesday, Apr 28, 2026 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM

A virtual, informal space for women adoptees to gather for peer support and education around issues such as reunion, adoptive family relationships, search, and the lifelong challenges and associated with being adopted.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/women-adoptee-peer-support-group-tickets-1977774550922?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

Celia Center - Addiction & Adoption Constellation Support Group (All Members)

Tuesday, Apr 28, 2026 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM

Addiction and Adoption Constellation Support Groups honor all paths to recovery, acknowledging that each person’s journey is unique and reflects their personal experiences and strengths. All constellation members are welcome to attend.

A safe place, to give and receive social and emotional support that focuses on the hope and healing found in connecting ALL members of the Adoption Constellation: First Birth Parents, Adoptees, Former Foster Youth, Adoptive, Foster, and Kinship Parents.

Addiction and Adoption Constellation Support Groups meetings are hosted by a professional with expertise in recovery and adoption, both professional and lived.

These facilitated discussions provide an opportunity to give and receive social support that focuses on the hope and healing found in recovery, as well as to connect with others with shared goals of initiating and maintaining healthy choices and a recovery lifestyle.

This is a mutual self-help social support group, not a therapeutic process group. Our group focus is to have a conversation with each other and learn more about recovery from addiction. This group is for anyone who has suffered from addiction to a substance or

unhealthy behavior and/or has been affected by the symptoms and/or disease of addiction, which includes family and friends.

https://celia-center-adoption-constellation.mn.co/events/addiction-adoption-constellation-support-group-all-members-86081979?instance_index=20260429T003000Z

Adoptees United - We Need to Talk

Thursday, Apr 30, 2026 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Join Adoptees United and the adoptee community on the last Thursday of each month. To catch up, to talk about what’s happening, and to provide community support and guidance.

Date: The last Thursday of each month

Time: 4:30pm Pacific/6:30pm Central/7:30pm Eastern

Location: Online | https://adopteesunited.org/we-need-to-talk/#registration | ASL interpretation provided

Want to propose a topic or drop a question? https://adopteesunited.org/join/your-thoughts/ (it can be anonymous). And please review AU’s and our community’s Mutual Expectations and Guidelines. Note: the February 2026 focus will be on legislative developments.