Connecting Carers NSW (CCNSW) gives Foster, Kinship and Relative Carers across NSW access to FREE ongoing training, education and peer support.
Carers are provided with up to date advice and information to support them in caring for children and young people in Out of Home Care.
The service is applicable for families formed through a permanent care placement.
http://www.connectingcarersnsw.com.au/index.html
Adoption Information Unit (AIU) provides information and support (post adoption) to people who were adopted in NSW and their families.
Where the adopted person is under 18 years of age, AIU provides a range of specialist mediation, support and referral services to assist children and their families with adoption-specific issues.
For more information please visit our website: www.community.nsw.gov.au/adoption
National Adoption Awareness Week (NAAW) is a series of community based events exploring the process of adoption, and the journeys of all people touched by adoption, locally and internationally.
NAAW was launched in Australia in 2008. Due to its success, it will be held annually in November and will coincide with adoption awareness around the world.
NAAW 2010 will be held from 8th to 14th November.
An adoption counselling and support organisation in Western Australian.
A service of the Benevolent Society, providing information, counselling and support services to anyone affected by adoption. Scarba House, 24A Ocean St, Bondi, NSW 2026.
Tel: 02 9365 3444
Email: parc@bensoc.org.au
www.bensoc.org.au/postadoption/
Adoption greeting cards
Reunite cards produce adoption specific greeting cards and bookmarks. Jeanette and Megan are adoptees from the "closed adoption" era and thus the cards reflect the secrecy and loss of the time. They are personally aware that the complexities and emotions of adoption often make it difficult to articulate feelings. Using their life experiences, along with birth parents, adoptive parents and others, they have created a unique range of greeting cards that acknowledge all aspects of the adoption separation and reunion experience from many perspectives.
www.reunitecards.com/index.php
ASIAC (Australian Society For Intercountry Aid Children) Supports families joined through intercountry adoption from China, Korea, The Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, India and Hong Kong.
A group that encourages attachment-based parenting methods and therapeutic options for when there is an issue with attachment.
Mediation, counselling and search services to anyone involved in adoption.
An inter-country adoption group that provides some links to useful sites and resources for all adoptive families.
