About
Post Placement Care
for Birth/First Mothers should be a Federal standard.
“To suggest that adoption can do better to promote the interests and needs of children, biological families, and adoptive parents is not an attack on adoption. On the contrary, it’s “pro-adoption,” from my perspective. Ensuring that adoption is safer, more informed and works better for all is why I founded the KNEE TO KNEE national training, a post-placement care network dedicated to educating adoption professionals on the importance of ensuring lifetime resources and support for women who made the decision to place their child for adoption. I work with adoption professionals to train them to better serve women who have made the very difficult decision to relinquish a child for adoption, not just up until the time of placement but in the many years following the decision, or for as long as she needs adoption-related support and counsel. I believe this is an adoption professional’s ethical responsibility, and I am pleased that organizations like National Council For Adoption (NCFA) agrees with me on this point…”
Ashley Mitchell, Owner of the Knee to Knee program, set out to seek increased care, understanding, and resources for birth mothers. For almost two decades, Ashley has been one of the most consistent and sought after birth mother voices in the nation. Well known for her vulnerability and transparency in adoption, her story has touched the hearts of countless members of the adoption community and beyond.
She is the co-host of the Twisted Sisterhood Podcast
She is the mad creator here at Big Tough Girl
She is the co-creator of Utah Adoption Rights
SHE IS THE OG BIG TOUGH GIRL
Past + Present Authors of Knee to Knee Curriculum
For Birth Mothers by Birth Mothers
{including Licensed Mental Health & Health care Professionals}
AFTER YEARS AND YEARS OF GRIEF, LOSS AND DEPRESSION, ONE WOMAN STARTED TO WRITE AND SHARE HER EXPERIENCES.
OVERTIME A SMALL COMMUNITY OF BIRTH MOTHERS AND FRIENDS GATHERED AND STARTED TO SHARE A VOICE.
THAT GROUP STARTED TO GROW INTO ONE OF MOST RESPECTED ONLINE SUPPORT GROUPS.
KNEE TO KNEE, A POST PLACEMENT EDUCATION PROGRAM, IS A RESULT OF THIS SMALL GROUP OF WOMEN.
AFTER SUPPORTING COUNTLESS WOMEN ALL OVER THE COUNTRY ONLINE, WE TOOK ALL OUR OF OUR EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION AND CREATED THE FIRST EVER POST PLACEMENT TRAINING PROGRAM TO BUILD LASTING AND CONCRETE SUPPORT GROUPS FOR WOMEN THAT CHOOSE TO PLACE THEIR CHILDREN FOR ADOPTION, THAT PROVIDED AN IN-PERSON OPTION, PULLING WOMEN OUT OF THE DESTRUCTION AND ISOLATION CAUSED BY UN-MONITORED SOCIAL MEDIA GROUPS.
WE ARE THE NATIONAL STANDARD FOR ETHICAL POST PLACEMENT CARE FOR BIRTH MOTHERS.
*After the Global Pandemic of 2020 changed the world for access to mental health resources, we added a National virtual support group so that we could meet the women where they are in case they can’t get to a gathering in person.
