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Adoption and foster care support in New Zealand
For adoptees, birth parents, adoptive and foster families. Talk with people in New Zealand 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 New Zealand
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Northside Debt Advice, Invercargill
Run by people who have been through caring for an aging parent and parenting a struggling teen themselves.
Tue to Sat, 10 to 6
From people who came through it
“Please 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.”
Bayo P · been through adoption and foster care“to anyone just starting out with fostering or adoption: it's not going to be like you imagine, and that's okay. some days you'll feel like you're getting it all wrong. i've been doing this for 8 years and i still have days where i want to hide in the shed. but you learn. you learn that the small wins matter more than the big ones. and you learn to ask for help, even when it's the last thing you want to do. you're not doing it alone, even if it feels like it.”
Second Oak · been through adoption and foster care“I'm not going to tell you eveything happens for a reason. It doesn't. But you can get through it. I did, and I'm not especially strong. I made a shared calendar for the family so I'm not the only one remembering.”
Marta Yt · been through adoption and foster care“Reading 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.”
trisha.garden · been through adoption and foster care