To support mothers, CCNM maintains an active email group which discusses issues which pertain to those who have experienced adoption loss and those who may be in reunion with lost family members.
Members of the CCNM also at attend adoption related conferences, government meetings and meetings with social services agencies to educate people about the experiences of natural mothers and argue for improved policies, practices and rights of mothers and adopted people.
Many of CCNM's published positions argue that adoption is frequently dependent on the legal and emotional exploitation of natural mothers, and the group has published a guide to "Honest Adoption Language" which argues that much of the contemporary vocabulary used to describe adoption exhibits a pro-adoption bias.
Its then Vice-President, Sandra Jarvie, represented mothers and people adopted in working to open records in Alberta.
In 2005 it published a position paper disputing the claims of Ontario Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian with regard to past privacy commitments made to women placing children for adoption.