VIC Support Organisations
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Local Adoption Support Groups
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Adopted Persons
Origins, Advocacy and Kinship (OAK)
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| P.O. Box 5260BB
Melbourne 3001
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| Centacare Catholic Family Services
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| 576 Victoria Parade
East Melbourne 3002
Phone: (03) 9419 5633
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| | The Post Placement Support Service (PPSS) is an early intervention support and training service which serves anyone who has a personal or professional connection with permanent care, adoption, kinship care and/or foster care.
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| | Vanish a community organisation based on the self-help model, offers a support service that aims to empower individuals to make informed decisions. Most staff members have a personal experience of separation from family of origin and so are able to empathise with service users and offer appropriate assistance and support.
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International Adoption Support Groups
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| Australian African Children's Aid and Support Association (AACASA)
| Vivienne O'Shannesy
339 Kooyong Road
Elsternwick 3185
Telephone: 9533 0800
Email: vivienne1@bigpond.com
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| | Intercountry Adoptive Parents
Australian Society for Intercountry Aid (Children) (ASIAC) Victoria
| P.O. Box 189
Glen Waverley 3150
Telephone: (03) 9808 6613
Fax: (03) 9888 8345
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| Facts International Adoption Association (FACTS)
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| 14 Jelbart Crt
Eltham 3095
Telephone: (03) 9431 2514
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| | Korean Adoptive Families (Victoria)
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| International Adoptive Parent's Association (IAPA)
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| Adoption Coordinator
Lynette Kramer Halprin
lyn.len@bigpond.net.au
P.O. Box 3127
Ripponlea, 3185
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Other Support Organisations
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| ARMS Victoria is the Association of Relinquishing Mothers (Victoria) INC.
| A charitable organization founded in 1982 out of a common need to support women who have lost a child or children to adoption.
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