This directory brings together adoptee-led groups that welcome intercountry adoptees from any birth country, rather than focusing on adoptees from one particular country of origin.
Organised by the country where each group is based, these networks offer opportunities for connection, peer support, advocacy and community. Some also welcome domestic adoptees or focus on specific issues and experiences.
Australia has InterCountry Adoptee Voices (international peer support network and advocacy hub) and Adoptation (regular online peer support group for Australian local and intercountry adoptees)
Belgium has Nazorghuis (a special therapy & coaching space) and L’écho des adoptés Belges (French) and special focus group for Truth & Reconciliation about intercountry adoption in Belgium is Critical Adoptees Front Europe (CAFE)
Canada has French language based L’Hybride and RAIS in Montreal
Canada has English language based: Asian Adoptees Canada, Transracial Adoptee Community of BC (TAC, in British Columbia), Adult Adoptee Network is a meet up group (for all adoptees) based in Ontario, Subtle Asian Adoptee Traits (SAAT Canada)
Other organisations based in Canada run by intercountry adoptees who have a special focus:
Colours of Adoption is a Montreal book project founded to bring together an intercountry adoption anthology in French
Out of the Fog is a podcast co-created by Ethiopian adoptee
Adoptees On is a podcast and source of many adoption support resources by domestic adoptee Hayley Radke
Denmark has Transracial Adoption Skandinavien.
Special focus group Danish Korean Rights Group (DKRG) works to obtain recognition of human rights abuses in intercountry adoption from Korea
Europe Subtle Asian Adoptee Traits (SAAT) Europe
Finland has Vuxna Internationellt Adopterade i Finland (VIA)
France has La Voix Des Adoptés (VDA), Entre Personnes Adoptées, and Entre deux histoires
Special focus groups to represent illegal intercountry adoptions in France, is I AM and RAIF
Germany has Adoptierte aus aller Welt
Italy has AdoptCloud, ArP Adoptic, Associazione Nazionale Figli Adopttivi (ANFAD)
Netherlands has Adoptie Cirkel, Adoptee & Foster Coach (AFC), Adoptie Superhelden in Beweging, Wereld Kids (for teenagers)
New Zealand has I’m Adopted led by intercountry adoptees but is a global network for all adoptees (domestic and intercountry)
Norway has Adopsjon i endring (AiE), UTAD Critical
Spain has La voz de los adoptados (led by both intercountry and domestic adoptees, providing for both)
Sweden has a network Adoptionsnätverket (led by intercountry adoptees, providing for domestic and intercountry adoptees, including descendants)
UK has DAWTA CIC led by an intercountry adoptee, an advocacy group led by domestic and intercountry adoptees UK Adult Adoptee Movement, and for all adoptees The Dunbar Project led by transracial domestic adoptees
USA has I Am Adoptee with a subsidy program for mental health counselling, Subtle Asian Adoptee Traits, Transracial Adoption Perspectives, and the following orgs are inclusive of domestic and intercountry adoptees Adoptees who cut ties, Fireside Adoptees, BIPOC Adoptees, Network of Politicized Adoptees, a Korean adoptee led org that focuses on citizenship legislation is Adoptees for Justice (A4J)
Adoptee led orgs with resource info but no longer active: Adoption Museum Project, Transracial Eyes, International-Adopt-Talk, Unite Our Dream, San Francisco Bay Area; Dear Adoption, Adoptee Rights Campaign (ARC), AQA (Asian, African, Aborigine/Autochtones Queer Adoptees)