We provide ongoing services to all people who have been involved in the adoption process through Catholic Children’s Rescue Society or through Caritas.

You may be:

• An adoptee
• An adopter
• A birth relative of an adoptee

Services for adoptees 

• Access to birth records for anyone over the age of 18
• Advice and assistance in tracing birth relatives
• Act as an intermediary in contacting birth relatives
• Support through the process of reunion
• Offer hospitality for the reunion
• Help in registering a “veto” to prevent contact from birth relatives
• Pass on subsequent medical information

Services for adoptive families

• A duty telephone system for advice and guidance
• Therapeutic help for children and adults
• Counselling for adults
• Training in behaviour management
• ‘Explaining Adoption’ workshops
• Support groups for parents of adopted children
• Support groups for parents of adult adoptees

Services for birth relatives

• Advice and assistance in tracing adoptees
• Act as an intermediary in contacting an adoptee
• Support through the process of reunion
• Offer hospitality for the reunion
• Advice on how to register a wish for “no contact”