Adoption Servics (State wide)
Tasmania's only non-government Adoption Service providing a comprehensive counselling, support and placement & information service to adoptive parents, relinquishing parents and adoptees.
Adoption
You may be pregnant and unsure what to do. You may be concerned about what the future holds for your relationship, your career, and your child.
You may be anxious about the responsibilities of being a parent. You may have heard about adoption, but are uncertain as to what it is all about.
It is important that you get the correct information and discuss your feeling with a counsellor, who will give you professional guidance and support during and after the pregnancy.
Adoption Information Search & Adoption Information Register
This service is intended to help all persons involved in an adoption, adopted persons, birth parents, adoptive parents, and natural relatives to obtain and exchange information about each other and to arrange to meet if they wish to do so.
The law recognises that all people concerned have the right to privacy and to have their lives protected from intrusion.
The Information Register allows all people affected by adoption to register their wishes about contact and exchange of information. This may include a veto against contact.
Application and Assessment services for Adoptive Couples
Centacare provides information about the legal process involved in becoming adoptive parents and undertakes the necessary assessment.
For more information contact:
Hobart
p: (03) 6278 1660
f: (03) 6278 1005
e: centacare.hobart@aohtas.org.au
Launceston Office
p: (03) 6332 0600
f: (03) 6332 0699
e:centacare.launceston@aohtas.org.au
Burnie
p: (03) 6431 8555 or 1800 559 793
f: (03) 6431 8114
e: centacare.burnie@aohtas.org.au
Devonport
p: (03) 6423 6100 or 1800 559 793