Staffordshire’s Adoption Support Team offers information, advice and support to anyone affected by adoption.
This includes:
- Adoptive families
- Adopted adults
- Birth parents and relatives
For Adoptive Families
We provide a range of services for adoptive families living in Staffordshire:
- Information and advice about relevant adoption issues
- Support for adoptive families who may be in need of additional support
- Regular support groups for adoptive parents
- Family events twice a year
- Activity groups for adopted children during school holidays
- A regular Newsletter
- Workshops on topics of interest to adoptive families
- Support with contact arrangements, including a confidential Post Box service
- Information about other organisations that can offer help
For Adopted Adults
We provide an opportunity for you to talk to someone about adoption and how it has affected you:
- Information and advice about relevant adoption issues
- A full counselling service for those people over eighteen who wish to see their birth records
- A limited intermediary service for those wishing to make contact with their birth family
- Preparation and support for any reunion
- Information about other organisations that can offer help
For Birth Parents
If you are a birth mother or father separated from your child by adoption we can offer:
- Information and advice about relevant adoption issues
- Independent support for parents whose children are being placed for adoption
- Support with contact arrangements, including a confidential Post Box service
- A limited intermediary service for birth parents wishing to make contact with adopted adults
- Preparation and support for any reunion
- Information about other organisations that can offer help
If your life has been affected by adoption and you need information, advice or support call, email or write to us today.
Support Line : 0845 3300 401
