We Find Family for Youth in Foster Care.
We prioritize relatives, kin, community and culture as we identify caring adults who promise to be there, forever.
Learn more about our work.
Our 7-minute video, We Find Family, features two families who adopted youth from foster care along with our incredible staff helping viewers understand the complex work we do.
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We host a variety of engaging, inclusive events for youth, caregivers, kinship families, pre-adoptive families, child welfare professionals, volunteers and the general public. Please join us!
Latest News from Ampersand Families
Childhood trauma impacts brain development. Here’s how we’re helping.
Ampersand Families is on the cutting edge of trauma support by providing NMT™ assessments to young people who have experienced foster care.
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Supporting and Affirming LGBTQ+ Youth: New training for families
This interactive training is designed to meet each family where they are at, whether they have never interacted with a queer or trans person before or if they have experience parenting an LGBTQ+ youth already.
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