Formed Families Together groups are peer-led support groups providing a safe, nurturing, and healthy environment for adoptive, foster, and kinship parents and caregivers to express their experiences, concerns, and frustrations as formed families. The groups offer a network to share resources and information amongst the group members, reducing feelings of isolation, and celebrating family successes in maintaining permanency for and the ongoing commitment to children. Peer support can be critical to parent and caregiver self-care and can contribute to healthy family functioning and improved outcomes for children and youth.
The groups are offered in 2 formats – in-person (3rd Wednesdays of the month from 7-8:30 PM) and virtually (1st Sundays of the month from 7:30- 9 PM). Both formats are co-facilitated by trained peer leaders who have personal and professional experience as foster and adoptive parents and kinship caregivers. Your registration will enroll you for both the virtual and the in-person groups, and you will receive monthly reminders about both meetings. There is NO CHARGE for participation in the Formed Families Together groups. Due to the continuing nature of peer support, regular group attendance for at least one of the formats (virtual or in-person) is expected.
The in-person group will meet in Fairfax City at 10304 Eaton Place, Suite 100 on the following Wednesdays from 7-8:30 PM:
November 18, December 16, 2026
Please note that there is NO childcare for in-person sessions.
The virtual group will meet on the following Sundays from 7:30-9 PM :
December 6, 2026.
Log in information will be sent to registered virtual participants prior to each meeting. Activities for children will not be provided during the virtual meetings.
Registration is needed to provide group updates and track who is in the group. If you previously registered for FFT and are receiving reminder emails, your registration carries over and there is no need to re-register here. Please visit our website at www.FormedFamiliesForward.org for more information.
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