Community Agencies
Please note: The History of Adoption project does not endorse any organisation listed here.
If your organisation is not listed here, or if your organisation's details are incorrect, please contact us at: historyofadoption@monash.edu.au
ACT
- Adoptive Families Association of the ACT
- Ph: Julia on (02) 6294 3546
- Email: jurol@hotmail.com
- http://www.adoption.org.au
- Adoption Mosaic
- Ph: (02) 6231 1554
New South Wales
- Origins (NSW)
- Australian based support and discussion group for people separated by adoption.
- www.originsnsw.com
- Main Office
- Ph: (02) 8786 1035
- Lily: Ph: (02) 9604 7006
- Pendle Hill (west)
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Robyn: 02 9636 8437 (w)
- Benevolent Society Post Adoption Resource Centre (NSW)
- A service of The Benevolent Society, [PARC] provides information, counselling and a range of other services to anyone affected by adoption throughout New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory.
- PO Box 239
- Bondi
- NSW 2026
- Ph: (02) 9365 3444
- Email: parc@bensoc.org.au
- Sydney Adoptive Parents Association of NSW
- Dulwich Hill (inner west)
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Ph: (02) 9817 6282
- International Social Services NSW Office
- Suite 8, Level 1
- 13-15 Wentworth Avenue
- East Sydney
- NSW 2010
- Email: adminnsw@iss.org.au
- www.iss.org.au
Queensland
- ALAS Qld: Adoption Loss Adult Support
- Email: alasqld@alasqld.com
- ALAS is a group of mothers whose babies went to adoption, and adopted women.
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- WASH (White Australian Stolen Heritage)
- Community support group for adoptees providing networking and resources
- Ph: Kerri 5484 5949
- Email: kerris.1@bigpond.com
- http://whiteaustralianstolengen.weebly.com /
- Adoption Privacy Protection Group
- Ph: 07 3843 2388
- Email: appg@powerup.com.au
- Post Adoption Support Queensland (PASQ)
- Ph: 07 3112 5182
- Ph: 1300 914 819
- past@bensoc.org.au
- http://www.bensoc.org.au/
- Jigsaw Queensland Post Adoption Resource Centre
- An association for Adopted Persons, Birth/Relinquishing Parents and Adoptive Parents.
- PO Box 912
- New Farm
- QLD 4005
- Ph: 07 3358 6666
- http://jigsawqld.server101.com/
- Salvation Army Tracing Services
- Since 1885 the Salvation Army has been helping reunite broken families. Their Family Tracing Service also includes post adoptions searches, but only if they occurred in Queensland and New South Wales. A donation is requested.
- http://www.salvos.org.au/familytracing
- Origins (Qld)
- Support and advocacy group run by a group of women whose children were adopted
- PO Box 475
- Sumner Park
- QLD 4074
- Ph: 07 3271 6813
- http://www.originsnsw.com/originsqueensland/index.html
- Association for Adoptees (Tallandra Heights)
- Phone: (07) 3807 6428 (office hours)
- North Queensland Combined Women's Services Inc (Townsville and environs)
- Phone: (07) 4775 7555
- Fax: (07) 4779 2959
- Adoption Support Group (Zillmere)
- Phone: (07) 3265 4910
- South East Qld Adoptive Families Group (Tingalpa)
- Phone: (07) 3390 8876
- Sunshine Coast Adoptive Families Group (Maleny)
- Phone: (07) 5494 2842
- Wild Bay Adoption Support Group (Maryborough)
- Phone: (07) 4123 2702
- Relationships Australia SA
- 49a Orsmond Street
- Hindmarsh SA 5007
- Ph: 08 8245 8100
- Email: passinfo@rasa.org.au
- Centacare Family Services
- PO Box 369
- Moonah
- TAS 7009
- Phone: Ph: (03) 6278 1660
- Email: centacare.hobart@aohtas.org.au
- Origins Tasmania
- (A support group for all parties affected by adoption)
- http://www.adoptionoriginstas.com/
- Adoptive Families Association of Victoria
- The Adoptive Families Association of Victoria Inc. (AFAV) is a self-help group offering families with children placed under Adoption or Permanent Care orders the opportunity to exchange information, share experiences and provide mutual support.
- Ph: (03)9574 8873
- http://home.vicnet.net.au/~afav/
- Anglicare Victoria
- For a small number of children who are unable to return home, Anglicare co-ordinates permanent care and adoption from centres in Melbourne's West and Gippsland. Care-givers continue to receive on-going support and advice. Anglicare Victoria also offers a funded Adoption Information Service program for persons whose lives have been touched by adoption: Birth Parents/relatives, Adopted Persons and Adoptive Parents, in terms of seeking information and/or contact
- 41 Somerville Road,
- Yarraville, 3013.
- Ph: (03) 9687 5200
- Email: admin.yarrav@anglicarevic.org.au
- Manager: Richard Metres
- http://www.anglicarevic.org.au/
- Anglicare Gippsland Region
- 65 Church St,
- Morwell, 3840.
- Ph: 5133 9998
- Fax: 5133 9601
- Anglicare Loddon Mallee Region
- Adoption and Permanent Care Program,
- St Lukes Anglicare
- PO Box 315
- Bendigo
- VIC 3552.
- Ph: 5440 1100
- Centacare Catholic Family Services (Adoption and Permanent Care Teams)
- 576 Victoria Parade
- East Melbourne
- VIC 3002
- Ph: (03) 9419 5633
- Email: adoption@melb.centacare.org.au
- Principal Officer: Vicki Shannon
- Centacare Adoption & Family Records Service
- Level 16
- 589 Collins St
- Melbourne
- VIC 3000
- Ph: (03) 9616 2822
- Uniting Care Connections (Adoption and Permanent Care Program)
- 274 High Street
- Windsor
- VIC 3181
- Ph: 9521 5666
- Email: inquiries@connections.org.au
- VANISH (Victorian Adoption Network for Information and Self Help)
- VANISH provides a formal structure through which to deliver, efficiently and effectively, advice, search and support to any member of the community who has experienced separation from the family of origin through adoption or donor conception. VANISH also provides a search service on behalf of Forgotten Australians.
- 100 Franklin Street
- Melbourne
- VIC 3000
- Mailing address:
- PO Box 112
- Carlton South
- VIC 3053
- Ph: (03) 9328 8611
- Toll free: 1300 VANISH
- Fax: (03) 9329 1752
- Email: info@vanish.org.au
- http://www.vanish.org.au
- Association of Relinquishing Mothers (ARMS)
- ARMS is a support group for women who have lost a child or children to adoption.
- Ph: (03) 9769 0232
- www.armsvic.org.au
- Adoption Research and Counselling Service Inc (ARCS)
- Funded by the Department for Community Development. An independent community agency that provides professional counselling, support and information to anyone dealing with the challenges and opportunities in: adoption, pre-adoption, step and blended families, foster families and families created through Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART). Was largely set up by professionals – particularly Robin Winkler (Psychologist at UWA)
- PO Box 187
- Mt Lawley
- WA 6929
- Ph: 08 9370 4914
- Fax: 9370 4917
- arcs@adoptionwa.org.au
- www.adoptionwa.org.au
- Adoption Support for Families and Children Inc (ASFC) (WA)
- ASFC is a voluntary, non-profit organisation whose membership is made up of prospective and post adoptive families.
- PO Box 122
- Subiaco
- WA 6904
- Ph: (08) 9489 4008
- Email: info@asfc.info
- Association Representing Mothers Separated from their Children by Adoption Inc (ARMS)
- Provides emotional support to mothers separated from their children by adoption. To educate the public of the lifelong effects of adoption and to work to change adoption laws and practices.
- PO Box 521
- Hamilton Hill
- WA 6963
- Ph: (08) 9312 1999
- Adoption Jigsaw WA Inc
- Mediation and counselling services to anyone involved in adoption and/or separated from family through fostering, stepfamilies or reproductive technologies.
- Funded by the Department for Community Development.
- PO Box 403
- Subiaco
- WA 6904
- Ph: (08) 9388 1922
- Email: jigsaw@jigsaw.org.au
- http://www.jigsaw.org.au/
- South Western Adoption Support Group
- 104 Peel Terrace
- Busselton
- WA 6280
- Pat - Ph & Fax: 08 9754 1976
- Pauline – 08 9752 2440
- clarrie@westnet.com.au
- Link-Up Services
- Assisting Indigenous Australians separated from their families.
- National contacts are available through the AIATSIS website.
- http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/fhu/linkup.html#vic
- Koorie Heritage Trust Cultural Centre
- Support and Advice for Koorie people separated from their families due to adoption or other government child removal policies.
- 295 King Street
- Melbourne 3000
- Ph: (03) 8622 2600
- http://www.koorieheritagetrust.com/about_the_trust/welcome
South Australia
Tasmania
Victoria
Western Australia
Indigenous agencies
Intercountry adoption
- Australian Families for Children (Overseas Adoption Agency)
- Bondi Beach
- NSW 2026
- Ph: (612) 9371 9244
- Email: info@australiansadopt.org
- www.australiansadopt.org/
- Intercountry Adoptive Families of QLD (IAFQ)
- Ph: (07) 3279 2133
- http://www.iafq.org.au/
- World Families Australia
- www.worldfamilies.org.au
- Aid for the Children of Brazil
- PO Box 403
- Edgeworth
- NSW 2285
- Ph: (02) 4955 1789
- Adoption Support for Families and Children Inc (ASFC)
- Provides support to adoptive families and prospective adoptive parents. Operates child sponsorship programs in India, Thailand, Philippines and Korea. Also provides aid to children in developing countries. Private, non-government organisation.
- Previously Australian for Children Society
- Previously ASIAC – Australian Society for Intercountry Aid to Children
- Ph: 08 9381 2221
- Friends of FANA (Columbia)
- Email: kbrodaty@yahoo.com
- ASIAC (Australian Society Intercountry Aid to Children)
- PO Box 59
- Pymble
- NSW 2073
- http://www.asiac.org.au/
- Australian African Children’s Aid and Support Association (AACASA)
- (Information for those wishing to adopt from Africa).
- 148 Lebanon Street,
- Strathmore
- VIC 3041
- Ph: (03) 9379 3045
- http://www.aacasa.org.au/Adoption%2001.htm
- Families with Children from China – Australia (FCC)
- PO Box 4041
- Houpton Gardens LPO 3162
- Ph: (03) 9563 5002
- http://www.fcc-ct.org/
- Intercountry Adoption Resource Network (Australia) (ICARN(A))
- PO Box 12238 A&rsquo
- Beckett Street
- Melbourne 3001
- Ph: (03) 9439 2418
- http://www.icarn.com.au