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Adoption Services | Therapeutic Support | Family Connections
We offer adoption support to our adoptive families throughout childhood and beyond. Our friendly and experienced social workers will work with you to help you get the support you need so your adopted children can thrive. Our adoption teams support families through the adoption process and beyond, and we are highly experienced in helping new adoptive families adjust.
Coram Ambitious for Adoption
Coram is an Ofsted outstanding independent adoption agency working across Greater London and the surrounding areas through our regional adoption agency Coram Ambitious for Adoption. Coram has over 40 years’ experience in finding permanent loving families for children needing adoption.
Coram Intercountry Adoption Centre
Coram Intercountry Adoption Centre – is the UK’s only dedicated international adoption charity. The Ofsted outstanding charity helps to prepare, assess and support prospective adopters through the adoption process in the UK and then work with them towards being matched with a child from abroad.
Free adoption resources
Coram manages First4Adoption, the national information service for people interested in adopting a child in England
Adoption Activity Days
Activity Days are informal events delivered by specialist staff that enable prospective adopters and foster carers to discover whether they feel an emotional connection with a child, rather than simply relying on a written profile, and importantly give the children the same opportunity.
Sibling Time Activity Days
Sibling Time is a unique service that brings groups of siblings together for valuable fun and safe contact sessions. Brothers and sisters may be in separate settings: adopted, in foster, residential or kinship care, with Special Guardians or with birth parents. Sibling Time events are child-centred, with activities suitable for babies all the way up to young adults. The most important factor is that brothers and sisters spend quality time with one another and that everybody has fun. We are looking to partner with agencies who are interested in delivering Sibling Time sessions.
Access Adoption Records
Adoption Search and Reunion provides information for adopted people, birth relatives and also adoptive parents in England and Wales. It also provides information for agencies, professionals and volunteers who provide services for adopted people and their birth and adoptive relatives. The information available on this website applies to adoptions that were made before the 30th December 2005.
Creative Therapies
We offer music and art therapy alongside specialist clinical, therapist and mental health support to help young people and their families build the skills and emotional resilience they need to thrive.
Psychotherapy and Family Therapies
Our Support Gateway helps parents and special guardians to identify their family’s needs, leading them to either a referral for one or more of our therapies, or directing them to more relevant support. The Support Gateway draws on the expertise of a wide range of clinicians. This ensures that adoptive families and special guardians get the right type of help at the right time, safe in the knowledge that this is based on high-quality expertise.