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Advice line & Short term
Counselling
Whatever your interest in adoption, the
Advice Line is a good first port of call. Trained and
experienced counsellors offer a friendly listening ear,
confidential advice, course and workshop details and where
appropriate, appointments for our face-to-face counselling
service or referrals to our other services.
Counselling can be individual, as a couple, or as a family.
If you wish to arrange a consultation but you do not live
within a local authority that subscribes to the Centre,
there will be a charge to cover our costs. We also offer an
intermediary service for adopted people and birth
relatives.
The Advice Line phone number
is: 020 7284 5879
The
Advice Line is open:
Mondays - Fridays between
10.00am and 1.00pm, as well as Thursday evenings between
5.30pm and 7.30pm
In addition to advice and adult
counselling, there is a programme of groups and workshops on adoption issues.
Specific groups for adults who were transracially adopted
are also available.
Under a service level
agreement the Centre offers consultation
on any aspect of family placement and post-adoption work to
local authority social workers, GALS and other professional
staff involved in adoption. There is also the PACTS modular
training scheme for counsellors and social workers.
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