FAMILY CAMP
ASA Now's 4th Annual Family Camp will take place May 24 - May 27 OR August 9 - August 11, 2024 at Chauncey Ranch Camp in Mayer, AZ
Being foster parents is sometimes challenging, and ASA Now's Family Camp will provide a time for families to be lifted up by other kinship, foster and adoptive parents who understand those challenges. It's a time to connect with other caregivers, to learn that you are not the only ones who struggle in certain areas and to just have a community who understands what you are going through.
Set aside time for your family to join us for this amazing event! Enjoy meals together with your family and friends from our foster and adoptive community and leave refreshed and refueled with new friendships, connections and memories made.
Hope Starts Now Trauma Mama Retreat
Our 9th annual Trauma Mama Retreat is curated especially for kinship, foster & foster/adoptive moms. Join other moms who understand the journey of foster care & adoption for a respite retreat that offers healing, hope and support to foster and adoptive parents who have experienced the trauma of raising precious children with unique, complex and challenging behaviors. This retreat will help you connect with others who are also in the trenches!
We understand the unique challenges and isolation that some foster and adoptive moms experience. We understand the need for a getaway! Our desire is to equip you with the knowledge of knowing you are not alone. We hope to provide support, encouragement, and education within a warm, light-hearted, fun, and peaceful environment.
This getaway gives moms a chance to have time for self care and to recharge and get support from people who get it!
Retreat Dates:
October 17 - 20, 2024
ASA Now Support Group & Retreats
Our Peer-to-Peer Support Groups allow caregivers to share knowledge and experience, and provide emotional, social and practical support to one another.
Hope Starts Now Couples Retreat
Our 7th annual Couples Retreat offers healing, hope and support to kinship, foster and adoptive parents who have experienced the trauma of raising precious children with unique, complex and challenging behaviors. Our couples retreat gives foster and adoptive parents an opportunity to step away from their everyday stresses for three days.
During this event, attendees participate in therapeutic workshops and find solace in the companionship of other caregivers who are also parenting children from hard places.
As a parent, you cannot forget to give yourselves time to relax and renew! Who better to relax with than your spouse. Come join us!
Retreat Dates:
April 4th through April 6th 2025
Support Group & Craft Night
At ASA Now, we believe some of the best support an adoptive, foster, or kinship care parent can receive is from another parent. We believe that one of the most important things you can do is to have access to ongoing supports for your family.
Join us for this once a month Peer-to-Peer Support Group allowing kinship, foster and foster/adoptive parents to provide knowledge, experience, emotional, social and practical support to one another.
Support Group Gathering will give you an opportunity to meet and interact with other families who face the unique challenges of raising children with trauma, loss and who have had child welfare involvement. We are here to provide support and resources to help meet the emotional, behavioral or medical needs of children who have experienced foster care.