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If you know of any new or updated support group information, or cannot find a group in your area, please contact us 503-241-0799 / 800-764-8367 or orparc@nwresource.org for help and suggestions.
The ORPARC Online Parent Group is a welcoming, private online forum for adoptive and assisted guardianship families eligible for ORPARC services. Members can connect with other parents in a private and convenient forum, moderated by ORPARC Family Support Specialists. Through this private Facebook forum, members can ask questions, share experiences, offer suggestions - celebrate the joys and triumphs of adoptive parenting while supporting one another through the challenges.
For more information and to join the group, please contact Arah Gould, ORPARC Family Support Specialist at 503-241-0799 or email agould@nwresource.org.
Facebook group
To Connect, Educate and Empower Grandparents Raising Grandchildren as well as Kinship Caregivers in Oregon
Ties That Bind – Oregon is an online, statewide Facebook group sponsored by the Jessie F. Richardson Foundation to increase connection, collaboration and resources for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren and other Kinship Caregivers Raising Children. The Facebook support group is a place for learning, sharing, and helping each other. This includes asking questions and finding answers to issues unique to grand-families, sharing stories, information, and feelings, building friendships, and finding resources by talking to other who are currently raising grandkids, or who have been in similar situations. Visit the following Facebook page to join the group:
Facebook Group
Ties that Bind is a program of AGE+. For more, call 503-408-4759 or email shooper@jfrfoundation.org
LGBTQ families are welcome to join ORPARC’s LGBTQ private Facebook Peer to Peer parent support group, exclusively for LGBTQ state adoptive & guardianship parents and supported by ORPARC Family Support Specialists.
For more information and to join the group, please contact Michael McGrorty, LGBTQ Resource Specialist, at 503-241-0799 or email him at mmcgrorty@nwresource.org.