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Adoption and foster care support in Japan

For adoptees, birth parents, adoptive and foster families. Talk with people in Japan who know what it is like, find help near you, and join the worldwide circle too. Free, always.

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Help for adoption and foster care in Japan

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Soft Light Sleep Kits, Kobe

A small team supporting co-parenting after separation and single parenting. Free first conversation, then low-cost sessions.

Weekdays and Saturday mornings

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Yoshio Counselling

We help people with parenting a child with a disability and empty nest, in person in Naha and online. Sessions are relaxed and you set the pace.

Evenings and weekends

From people who came through it

  • โ€œI think I was sure I'd never feel normal again. I was wrong. I stopped trying to be the perfect parent. Good enough is enough. Keep going, even slowly.โ€

    Rami from Tangier ยท been through adoption and foster care
  • โ€œReading this late at night? I've been there. I've been there. For me it was a few years back. Back then it was the adoption panel. I laugh properly again. It doesn't stay this heavy. Keep going, even slowly.โ€

    trisha.garden ยท been through adoption and foster care
  • โ€œPara quien empieza como familia de acogida: no te voy a mentir, hay dรญas que parece que no das una. El trabajo de historia de vida es duro, el panel te pone nervioso y los adolescentes mienten y vapean. Pero tambiรฉn hay momentos buenos. Busca a alguien con quien hablar, como yo con Kerry. Y ten paciencia contigo misma.โ€

    sundayspark ยท been through adoption and foster care
  • โ€œPlease be gentle with yourself and I wasn't, and it made everything harder, ask for a double appointment if you can, it changed things for me. And talk to someone, even if it's just in here.โ€

    Bayo P ยท been through adoption and foster care

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