Compassionate support for people whose children are parented by others - no matter how that came to be.

People who seek support at Bellis come to us with a wide array of experiences. This includes adoption, foster care, termination of parental rights, transfer of custody, parental alienation, custody disputes, open child protection cases, and many other circumstances. At Bellis, we welcome everyone regardless of the circumstances surrounding their parenting status.

Bellis is a groundbreaking, national nonprofit whose mission is to improve the lives of those suffering from complex grief and ambiguous loss, with a special focus on those whose children are parented by others, and to raise the standard of care for systems serving them.