What Can SWAN Offer You?

• Confidential and prompt response to your enquiry. You do not need to be referred by anyone - just contact us.
• Counselling on the telephone or face to face.
• Family work and links to specialists who understand the adoption dimensions of your life.
• Supported Searching events.
• Intermediary services to assist in renewing contacts and to offer support to everyone involved.
• Opportunities to meet informally with other people who have similar experiences of adoption.
• Groups which meet regularly for a period to deal with specific issues.
• Aditionally, specific advice and counselling will, where possible, be made available to meet the needs of Black adopters, Black adopted people, Black birth parents and people involved in transracial adoption.
• Workshop days focusing on special issues, e.g. tracing birth parents, talking about my child who was adopted, explaining adoption to our growing children.
• An understanding attitude from SWAN staff who will have time to listen to you.