Exploring Adoption: A four-course session for adopted adults

FlowersBarnardos Post Adoption Service is a confidential professional service for adopted children and adults and for their birth and adoptive families.

About the course

Participants will be given the opportunity to explore issues such as:

  • Growing up adopted
  • Looking for birth information
  • Contact with birth family
  • Reunion and other outcomes
  • Birth and adoptive parents points of view
  • After reunion  

This course will be helpful to adopted adults who are considering searching for background information, who have had an outcome to their search and/or who would like an opportunity to reflect on the experience of being adopted. Places are limited to 20 participants.  

Facilitator: Christine Hennessey, Project Leader with Barnardos Post Adoption Service
Where: Hilton Kilmainham Hotel, Inchicore Road, Dublin 8
When: Four Thursday evenings starting from February 23rd 2012:  7.30-9.30pm.
Cost: €80