Founded in 2001, On Your Feet Foundation was the first organization dedicated to providing comprehensive post-placement care for birthparents. Recognizing the lack of available resources, members of the triad came together to meet birthparents where they are, helping them achieve their goals by developing programs and tools to acknowledge and address the grief and trauma of placement. Our Mission: We define a birthparent as a person who has placed a child for adoption. We provide the comprehensive support, services, and community that birthparents deserve no matter when they placed their child for adoption AND we advocate for birthparent rights and ethical practices in adoption in order to improve outcomes for all members of the adoption constellation. Today, On Your Feet Foundation celebrates twenty years of service to the birthparent community and continues to be one of the only independent, non-profit organizations dedicated to providing birthparents with comprehensive case management services, grants for adoption-competent counseling, tuition, and emergency rent assistance, as well as running online communities, support groups, and birthmom-facilitated in-person and virtual retreats for birthmoms in the US and beyond. We HONOR the choice of birthparents to place their child for adoption. We EDUCATE others about the challenges facing birthparents. We EMPOWER all of our clients by connecting them with resources, services and community. Our board of directors and staff include birthparents, adoptive parents (both domestic and international), adoptees and adoption professionals. Our clients have placed in open adoptions, closed adoptions, transracial adoptions, and with same-sex couples. They are parenting other children, are survivors of domestic violence, have had their parental rights terminated, have placed with family members, and are adoptees themselves.