Community organisations
There are well established support groups for families who have adopted children. Support groups can provide parents and children with information and support and often have resources available for loan and arrange social functions for families.
Queensland adoption
Queensland support groups for adoptive parents, birth parents and adoptees are held by local families and small organisations.
Contact details for these local groups are available from our Adoption Services Queensland.
Overseas adoption
Adoptive parents support groups in Queensland provide information and support for people interested in intercountry adoption, people seeking to become adoptive parents and adopted persons. The following are key support groups contacts for metropolitan, regional and rural areas.
Australia African Children's Aid Support Association (AACASA)
- Telephone:
- (07) 3278 3757
- Postal address:
- PO Box 1319
Milton QLD 4064 - Website:
- Australia African Children's Aid Support Association - www.aacasa.org.au
Australian Korean Friendship Group (Qld)
- Contact name:
- Stephen Finkel, President
- Telephone:
- (07) 3881 2030
Families with Children from China-Australia (FCC-Australia)
- Contact name:
- Mardi Arkinstall, Departmental Liaison Officer for Queensland
- Telephone:
- (07) 3254 4690
- Email:
- Mardi Arkinstall - mardiarkinstall@yahoo.com.au
Intercountry Adoptive Families Queensland (IAFQ)
- Telephone:
- (07) 3899 1489
- Address:
- PO Box 352
Paddington QLD 4064 - Website:
- Intercountry Adoptive Families Queensland - www.iafq.org.au
Intercountry Adoptee Support Network (ICASN)
- Contact name:
- Ilan, Queensland Co-ordinator
- Email:
- Ilan Ivory - ilan_ripples@yahoo.com
- Last updated
- 26 May 2008