Join us for the kick-off of Minnesota’s Adoption Awareness Month, honoring families who have grown through adoption and kinship care. This is a free celebration and recruitment event. Fun for all ages! Families should register here by October 23, Circus of the Heart 2025 - Foster Adopt Minnesota .
This required training will focus on how to support and affirm a youth who identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, or another identity in the LGBTQ+ community in an adoptive, pre-adoptive, or relative/kinship home. This training will also include strategies to implement in your home to create a welcoming and inclusive space regardlessContinue Reading
Ampersand is excited to participate in this year's Give to the Max Day on Thursday, Nov. 20! Give to the Max Day is a statewide, grassroots giving event that helps promote your favorite non-profits like Ampersand Families! This year, donations will be matched $1 for $1, up to $2,000, by a generous donor. By donatingContinue Reading
For all Ampersand-affiliated adoptive, pre-adoptive, and kinship caregivers. Caregivers are invited to share their experiences and get support from other caregivers while youth participate in an activity supervised by Ampersand Families staff. Dinner is provided for all. Invites go out approximately 2 weeks before the event. Please RSVP to alex.caballero-castillo@ampersandfamilies.org. Virtual link is available uponContinue Reading
This training acknowledges the complexities associated with Relative/Kinship caregiving through fostering and adoption. Topics will include divided loyalties, redefining roles and relationships, setting boundaries with parents and other relatives, the range of emotions caregivers can feel and how children who have experienced trauma, separation, or loss can impact a caregiver’s own well-being. Strategies for howContinue Reading