Boston Post Adoption Resources

Embodiment Skills Group for Adult Adoptees
2025-11-25 17:30 - 18:45 (America/New_York) | Zoom online with BPAR
Learn simple practices to feel grounded, safe and present in your body in a supportive group setting for adult adoptees. This group will explore a mixture of approaches including short meditations, breathwork, and somatic (body-based) techniques.
Group Cost: $35* per person, per session. We accept cash, check, and credit card. Payment is due at time of group.
If you are interested in joining this open group or you would like to learn more about it, please let us know through the Boston Post Adoption Resources Peer Groups Form or email us at info@bpar.org. Please note there is an initial phone screen process before each new group member attends.
*Partial scholarships available.

Adult Adoptee Group
2025-12-02 17:30 - 18:30 | Zoom online with BPAR
BPAR’s Adult Adoptee Group is a monthly peer group for adult adoptees. This group offers a safe and supportive environment where individuals can share their adoption stories and experiences through discussion, writing, and other modes. Sharing is optional.
Group Cost: $35*. We accept cash, check, and credit card. Payment is due at time of group.
If you are interested in joining this open group or learning more about it, please let us know through the Boston Post Adoption Resources Peer Groups Form or email info@bpar.org. Please note there is an initial phone screen process before each new group member attends.
*Partial scholarships available.

Adoptee Group for Kids Ages 7-11
2025-12-02 18:00 - 18:50 | Boston Post Adoption Resources – BPAR, 235 Cypress Street, Brookline, MA, 02445, United States
BPAR’s monthly Adoptee Group for Kids Ages 7-11 offers a safe space for children to meet other children who are adopted and share their stories and experiences through writing, discussion, and art activities. This group meets in-person at the Boston Post Adoption Resources office in Brookline.
Group Cost: $35* per person, per session. We accept cash, check, and credit card. Payment is due at time of group.
If your child is interested in joining this open group or you would like to learn more about it, please let us know through the Boston Post Adoption Resources Peer Groups Form or email us at info@bpar.org. Please note there is an initial phone screen process before each new group member attends.
*Partial scholarships available.

People of color group
2025-12-03 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-01-07 12:00 - 13:00

People of Color Adult Adoptee Support Group
2025-12-04 18:00 - 19:00 | Zoom online with BPAR
People of Color group for people touched by adoption, ages 18+
This group is a brave therapeutic space for adult adoptees who identify as a person of color, bi-racial or multi-racial. The group will explore and process what it is like to be a person of color in the world today. Racial identity development is already complex before adding adoption to it.
Group cost: $35* per session. We accept cash, check, and credit card. Payment is due at time of group.
If you are interested in joining this group or you would like to learn more about it, please let us know through the Boston Post Adoption Resources Peer Groups Form or email us at info@bpar.org. Please note there is an initial phone screen process before each new group member attends.
*Partial scholarships available.

Parents of Teen Adoptees Group
2025-12-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom online with BPAR
BPAR’s therapeutic group for parents of adopted teens ages 13-18 offers a safe space to meet other adoptive parents and caregivers and share stories and experiences. This group meets virtually.
Please contact us with questions.
Group Cost: $35* per person, per session. We accept cash, check, and credit card. Payment is due at time of group.
If you are interested in joining this open group or you would like to learn more about it, please let us know through the Boston Post Adoption Resources Peer Groups Form or email us at info@bpar.org. Please note there is an initial phone screen process before each new group member attends.
*Partial scholarships available.

International Young Group
2025-12-15 18:00 - 19:00

Parents of Kids Adoptee Group
2025-12-16 18:00 - 19:00 | Zoom online with BPAR
BPAR’s monthly therapeutic group for parents of adopted kids ages 8-12 offers a safe space to meet other adoptive parents and caregivers and share stories and experiences. This group meets virtually.
Please contact us with questions.
Group Cost: $35* per person, per session. We accept cash, check, and credit card. Payment is due at time of group.
If you are interested in joining this open group or you would like to learn more about it, please let us know through the Boston Post Adoption Resources Peer Groups Form or email us at info@bpar.org. Please note there is an initial phone screen process before each new group member attends.
*Partial scholarships available.

In-Person Social Skills Group for Pre-Teen and Teen Adoptees age 11-15
2025-12-16 18:00 - 19:00 | Boston Post Adoption Resources – BPAR, 235 Cypress Street, Brookline, MA, 02445, United States
This is a social skills group for pre-teen and teen adoptees who struggle to join in, connect, get along with peers, and navigate their social worlds. Supported by expressive arts and movement-based therapy techniques and teamwork challenges, group members will practice and reinforce their self-awareness, communication connection, and perspective-taking skills. Themes of belonging, connection, and identity development as an adoptee will serve as a framework for this group.
Group Cost: $35* per person, per session. We accept cash, check, and credit card. Payment is due at time of group.
If you are interested in joining this open group or you would like to learn more about it, please let us know through the Boston Post Adoption Resources Peer Groups Form or email us at info@bpar.org. Please note there is an initial phone screen process before each new group member attends.
*Partial scholarships available.

Parenting through Disconnection Group
2025-12-18 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom online with BPAR
When attempts at parenting with empathy, compassion, and cultivating joy are met with withdrawal, avoidance, or defensiveness, parents may experience a stress response called blocked care that creates disconnection in the parent-child relationship. This support group will be a space for adoptive parents to share with one another and receive support around the challenges of parenting through disconnection, as well as to learn tools for supporting healthy connection.
Parents of adopted children of all ages are welcome to join this virtual group.

This one-hour virtual “closed” group will meet monthly on Thursdays on the following session dates:
September 18 at 1 p.m.
October 16 at 1 p.m.
November 20 at 1 p.m.
December 18 at 1 p.m.
More dates to come…
Cost is $35 per parent, per session.
Sign up here. Note that BPAR will complete a brief phone intake prior to the group.

In-Person Adoptee Group for Older Teens (age 16-18)
2025-12-18 18:00 - 19:00 | Boston Post Adoption Resources – BPAR, 235 Cypress Street, Brookline, MA, 02445, United States
This group will offer a relaxed, contained, co-created space for teens to meet other teens who are adopted and to share stories and experiences through discussion and connection. Group members might also engage in writing or other activities.
Please contact us with questions.
Group Cost: $35* per person, per session. We accept cash, check, and credit card. Payment is due at time of group.
If you are interested in joining this open group or you would like to learn more about it, please let us know through the Boston Post Adoption Resources Peer Groups Form or email us at info@bpar.org Please note there is an initial phone screen process before each new group member attends.
*Partial scholarships available.

Parenting as an Adoptee
2025-12-18 18:00 - 19:00, 2026-01-22 18:00 - 19:00, 2026-02-19 18:00 - 19:00

Adult Adoptees (V)
2026-01-06 05:30 - 06:30, 2026-02-03 17:30 - 18:30

Kids Group 1 (IP)
2026-01-06 06:30 - 07:30, 2026-02-03 06:00 - 19:00

Parents of Teens (V)
2026-01-15 13:00 - 14:00

Older Teen Adoptees (IP)
2026-01-15 18:00 - 19:00

Social Skills Teens (IP)
2026-01-20 18:00 - 19:00

Parents 8-12 KC
2026-01-20 18:00 - 19:00

Parenting through Disconnection Group (V)
2026-01-22 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-02-19 13:00 - 14:00

International Young Adult (V)
2026-01-26 18:00 - 19:00

Kids Group 2 (IP)
2026-01-27 18:00 - 19:00

People of color group
2026-02-11 12:00 - 13:00 | Boston Post Adoption Resources – BPAR, 235 Cypress Street, Brookline, MA, 02445, United States

Parents of Teens (V)
2026-02-12 13:00 - 14:00 | Boston Post Adoption Resources – BPAR, 235 Cypress Street, Brookline, MA, 02445, United States

Social Skills (IP)
2026-02-17 18:00 - 19:00
