Peer Support
AKA offers a safe place for adult adopted people to meet and share their experiences. The adoptee support groups take place each month, primarily via Zoom. Please email aka@adoptionknowledge.org for Zoom information and event reminders, or check our calendar of events under the calendar tab of this website for specific meeting dates and times. Being founded by adopted adults, adoptees continue to be at the heart of AKA. We currently offer a Women Adoptee Meetup Group meeting on the last Tuesday of the month, a Male Adoptee Meetup Group meeting on the third Wednesday of the month, and a DNA Discoveries Group for anyone who has discovered or been discovered using commercial DNA testing. This group meets on the second Thursday of the month. Coming soon, a daytime adoptee peer support group. Check back here or email us to indicate interest and receive updates.
Search Assistance
AKA offers search assistance to those searching for family members who have been separated by adoption. AKA search assistance volunteers will walk you through the steps of searching in the 21st century. They will provide you with the tools to get you started and assist you along the way based on individual need. Please email aka@adoptionknowledge.org to be connected with a search assistance volunteer (search angel). AKA does not charge a fee for search assistance.
Lending Library
All Central Texas members of AKA benefit from our lending library. For a listing of available books, click here. Don't see what you need? Please email aka@adoptionknowledge.org to see if we have the title you are looking. Click here to arrange for borrowing.
AKA's Resource Directory
If you are in search of therapy services, additional peer support, or post adoption agency-related resources, you can also check AKA's Resource Directory located on our website here. Agencies and organizations that are members of AKA are designated as such in the directory.
AKA offers a safe place for adult adopted people to meet and share their experiences. The adoptee support groups take place each month, primarily via Zoom. Please email aka@adoptionknowledge.org for Zoom information and event reminders, or check our calendar of events under the calendar tab of this website for specific meeting dates and times. Being founded by adopted adults, adoptees continue to be at the heart of AKA. We currently offer a Women Adoptee Meetup Group meeting on the last Tuesday of the month, a Male Adoptee Meetup Group meeting on the third Wednesday of the month, and a DNA Discoveries Group for anyone who has discovered or been discovered using commercial DNA testing. This group meets on the second Thursday of the month. Coming soon, a daytime adoptee peer support group. Check back here or email us to indicate interest and receive updates.
Search Assistance
AKA offers search assistance to those searching for family members who have been separated by adoption. AKA search assistance volunteers will walk you through the steps of searching in the 21st century. They will provide you with the tools to get you started and assist you along the way based on individual need. Please email aka@adoptionknowledge.org to be connected with a search assistance volunteer (search angel). AKA does not charge a fee for search assistance.
Lending Library
All Central Texas members of AKA benefit from our lending library. For a listing of available books, click here. Don't see what you need? Please email aka@adoptionknowledge.org to see if we have the title you are looking. Click here to arrange for borrowing.
AKA's Resource Directory
If you are in search of therapy services, additional peer support, or post adoption agency-related resources, you can also check AKA's Resource Directory located on our website here. Agencies and organizations that are members of AKA are designated as such in the directory.
Helpful Online Resources for Adoptees:
(If you have a favorite resource not listed below, feel free to contact us so we can add it!)
Resources Specific to Transracial & International Adoptees:
Adoptee Blogs:
(If you have a favorite resource not listed below, feel free to contact us so we can add it!)
- Adoption Knowledge Affiliates Members Facebook Group
- Adoption Knowledge Affiliates Women Adoptee FB Group
- Adoptee Reading Resource
- Adoptee Influencer Network
- The Adoptee Survival Guide
- Ask Adoption
- Adoptionland.org - Global Adoption News
- Can DNA Testing Find My Lost Relatives?
- Genetic Sexual Attraction
- Grow Beyond Words Adoptee Therapist Directory
- National Association of Adoptees & Parents
- Reunion Land Bookshelves: Adoptees, DCPs & Fostereds
- Support Texas Adoptee Rights (STAR) - TX Birth Certificate Access & Legislation
Resources Specific to Transracial & International Adoptees:
- 325 Kamra (Mission: reunite Korean families separated by war, adoption, death & tragedy)
- Adoption History 101: An Orphan's Research
- adoptionland.org
- April Dinwoodie Podcast
- Family Tree DNA: Korean DNA Project (not adoptee specific)
- Indian Adoptee Connections - US (FB Group)
- KAAN
- Racism and White Privilege for the Adoptive Family: A Private FB Group from KAAN
- From Contingent Beginnings to Multiple Ends: DNA Technologies and the Korean Adoptee “Cousin” (Journal Article)
- Find a more thorough list in the Online Resources section of our website
Adoptee Blogs:
Films, Plays, Vlogs, & Videos:
- Adoptee Film Channel
- Betwixt & Between - (Theatrical) Maggie Gallant
- Calcutta is My Mother - Film
- Closure - (Transracial Adoption/Search & Reunion)
- First Person Plural - Film
- Forget Me Not - Film
- Found in Korea - Film
- Hot Dogs at the Eiffel Tower - (Theatrical) Maggie Gallant
- In The Matter of Cha Jung Hee - Film
- Six Word Adoption Memoir Project
- The Good Adoptee - (Theatrical)
- Reckoning with the Primal Wound - Film
AKA Adoptees Say:
After I decided I wanted to share my life story as a reunited adoptee and reach out to all members of the adoption triad, I discovered Adoption Knowledge Affiliates. And on April 16, 2007, I gave my presentation, “Blessed Beyond Belief.” This nonprofit has remained near and dear to my heart and I’d attend their events more frequently if I lived much closer to Austin (I’m in Dallas-Fort Worth area). But, I returned again the next year for their annual conference and was a member of an Adult Adoptees panel. Both experiences were life-changing for me. I can never thank AKA enough for helping me reach out to others but also touch my life as well forever more! They do so much for the adoption triad members. I highly encourage you to check them out iand attend one of their meetings if you have not already. – Chelle, Adoptee
When I first found my birthfamily, I needed a safe place to process the roller coaster of emotions. As a founder of AKA, I yearned to hear first-hand perspectives from ALL parts of the triad. Hearing enlightened professionals and the experiences of others helped me contextualize my own story within this life-long and ever changing experience of adoption. Now it is many years later and I still find AKA a solid and skilled place to be with friends who “get me.” –Kathryn, Adopted Person
