On Your Feet Foundation

Wine & Wishes Celebration

Each year in the fall, On Your Feet Foundation Northern California hosts a fundraiser to build support for its mission. The Wine & Wishes Celebration is an opportunity to raise monies to help grant the wishes of deserving and sometimes forgotten birthmothers after the adoption of their child. They can be wishes like coming to terms with their adoption, establishing relationships with other birth mothers or returning to school to get the training they need to gain more meaningful work and better support themselves. When these wishes are fulfilled, they can have a powerful and lasting impact on birth mother lives over many years.

 

Wine & Wishes 2008 Gallery

Wine & Wishes 2009 Gallery

Wine & Wishes 2010 Gallery

2012 Open Adoption Conference

 

In every adoption there are many stories. There are the birthparents’ story and the adopting parents’ story, not to mention the stories of siblings and extended families. Whether an adopted child has ongoing contact with his birthparents or none at all, adoptees must “weave” together their own narrative to create a strong, healthy identity. Learn how the adults in adopted children’s lives can best embrace and support each child’s story and validate everyone’s loving contributions to the child. Join us for a rare opportunity to learn to recognize a child’s changing emotional and cognitive understanding of adoption over time.

This daylong conference will prove enlightening and informative if you are:
  •  * A birthmother, or a member of a birth family by adoption
  • * An adoptive parent or a person considering adoption
  • * An educator, social worker, volunteer, counselor, or other individual

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