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After Adoption offers a wide range of services and provides information, support and advice to all those affected by adoption.

We work with children, families and adults and offer support throughout the adoption process. This can involve helping a birth parent to overcome the loss of their child to adoption, helping an adopted adult to search for their birth relatives, giving support to adoptive families and providing information to birth relatives.
 

We have three free, national telephone helplines where trained telephone counsellors can offer advice, support and an impartial friendly ear :
 

• ActionLine 0800 0 568 578 is our main helpline number for anyone with a connection to adoption who wants to find out more about our services as well as for professionals wanting more information.
   
• TALKadoption 0808 808 1234  is the only helpline of its kind dedicated to those aged under 25 who want to talk about adoption
   
• BirthTies 0800 840 2020 is the helpline for birth parents whose child is at risk of being adopted or has been lost to adoption

We also have a family finding service, 'Families that Last,' which places children with adoptive families. We work with particularly 'hard to place' young children; the majority of whom have had unstable young lives. The team support the new families through the adoption process, working towards the stability needed to embrace a happier future.

The SafeBase Parenting Programme is our newest service and is  aimed at adoptive parents to help them deal with any behavioural problems adopted children may display and for them to learn more about attachment difficulties.