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Adoption Support for Kentucky is a consortium of parent-led adoptive parent support groups throughout the state.
Through your journey of foster care and adoption, you may need to lean on other parents for support. Adoption Support for Kentucky (A.S.K.) provides parent-led support groups for adoptive parents and for those considering adoption.
Our groups are open to any family formed through adoption at any stage in the process. You may choose to adopt through the state, privately, internationally, or through kinship care, or you may simply be considering adoption. You may have adopted your child as an infant, older child, or part of a sibling group. You may have adopted twenty years ago, had a child placed with you for adoption last week, or still be awaiting placement. Regardless of the type of adoption or stage in the process, A.S.K. is here for you.
What can A.S.K. offer my family?
- Support groups for adoptive parents
- Mentoring with an experienced adoptive family
- Information on policies and procedures
- Educational/Training Programs
- Advocacy assistance
- Lending Library
- Statewide resource information
- Information on medical/behavioral issues
Why do adoptive families need support?
By bringing people together who have been touched by adoption, our support groups can validate your experiences and frustrations, celebrate the joys and triumphs unique to foster and adoptive parenting, enable you to share resources, suggestions, and success stories, identify and solve problems, reduce feelings of isolation and self doubt when problems arise in a family, provide on-going training, and offer encouragement affirmation, and hope.
For more information please contact:
Carrie Saunders, MSW CSW
ASK Director
1 Quality Street, Suite 700
Lexington, Kentucky 40507
Telephone: (859) 257-3196
Fax: (859) 257-3918
adoptky@uky.edu
1 Quality Street, Suite 700
Lexington, Kentucky 40507
Telephone: (859) 257-7361
Toll Free: (877) 440-6376
Fax: (859) 257-3918
seth.krusich@uky.edu
