How we can help

Adoptees - those who have been adopted may wish to find out about their adoption or trace birth relatives.
We can help by

• providing an opportunity to talk about your adoption with a project worker
• helping to locate background information on your adoption
• assisting in searching for a birth relative
• providing a sensitive intermediary service if contact with a birth relative is desired
• supporting a reunion and providing a support group where you can meet and talk with other adopted people

Birth parents and relatives – those who have been separated from children placed for adoption may grieve for many years.
We can help by

• providing an opportunity to talk about your experience with a project worker in an understanding environment
• we may be able to provide some information from adoption records
• it may be possible to search and make contact with the adopted person
• support in contact and reunion can be offered
• we run a birth mothers’ group which provides an opportunity to talk about your experience with others

Adoptive parents – adoptive parents and children can face many challenges.  There may be difficult background information.  Issues from the past may lead to difficulties.  Contact with birth family members may present challenges.
We can help by

working with the family as a whole

• working individually with children
• offering individual sessions for parents
• offering a support group for parents
• exploring with parents more effective methods of parenting
• offering a course for parents on new strategies for parenting