BUILDING AWARENESS AND OPENNESS
Since 1978, PACER is a unique nonprofit and grassroots volunteer organization that provides mental health services, resources, and support to adoption triad/constellation members. We understand that relinquishment, adoption, and loss are lifelong experiences. Our members and volunteers all have a lived adoption experience. TOUCHING LIVES
An estimated 6 million Ame
ricans are adopted, and each one of them has two sets of families that are deeply affected by the adoption experience. One third of the US population is touched by adoption, yet most experiences are largely invisible, unseen, and unheard. PACER is a triad/constellation an advocacy organization committed to truth, openness and transformation of the adoption system and the laws that govern it. ADVOCATES FOR CHANGE
In addition to serving triad/constellation members, PACER works to educate adoption professionals, counselors, social workers, physicians, educators, lawyers, clergy and media about the lifelong and lived experiences of relinquishment, adoption, and loss. PACER OFFERS:
Peer-led Support Groups
Referrals to Adoption Competent professionals
Community Events
Membership
Advocacy For Fairness and Ethical Standards in Adoption
Resources to Adoption-Related Research
Call to Action for open adoption records in California
WE BELIEVE...
..that adoption is a lifelong lived experience and process and that all members of the adoption triad/constellation are best served by a community of openness and honesty. PACER is committed to providing integrated mental health and recovery services to our members in order for them to better gain health and wellness. By opening both closed adoption records and the minds of the general public and lawmakers to the profound impact of relinquishment, adoption, and loss, secrecy and shame are replaced with healthier, more humanistic and ethical adoption practices. OUR GOAL...
.. is to provide integrated mental health and recovery services to all members of the adoption triad/constellation through our peer-led support groups, community outreach and events, resources, and referrals. We also strive to educate others about honesty and justice in adoption policies and practices, while simultaneously appreciating and supporting the different lived experiences of adoption by our members.
