Adoption Week

Adoption Week Scotland is an annual awareness campaign that works with partners across Scotland to provide events, training and resources that offer effective and accessible adoption support for anyone affected by adoption. CELCIS shared a mixture of new and older content on this year’s theme of ‘connection’, including the voice of a young adoptee who wrote about reconnecting with her birth mother, and a blog post which shared the experiences of birth parents. Over the course of the week, we aimed to highlight the intricacies of building connections with our past, present, and future families, share experiences, and focus on the importance of compassionate, nurturing peer support.

A graphic promoting a blog by Tegan, Youth Ambassador

"Meeting my birthmother for the first time was an occasion I spent more than 14 years of my life, as I remember it, building up to."

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Adoption week blog - Challenging the narrative of adoption: Who tells the story?

Whatever Next? is an award-winning adoptee-led project which was started by three Chinese adoptees – Addie, Hannah and Jo.

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A graphic promoting a blog post by Melanie Thomson

Melanie Thomson works for the Bluebird Project at Scottish Adoption, which offers counselling and support to birth parents, and birth mothers.

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Adoption week Scotland - We need to talk about FASD

Scotland has led the way in terms of diagnosis, support and awareness of FASD. Children and young people now have a route to diagnosis.

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Adoption week blog - Therapeutic Life Story Work - Sharing Lives/Sharing Stories: Richard Rose

Professor Richard Rose discusses therapeutic Life Story Work and how sharing stories helps to share our interests, hopes and fears.

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Adoption week - How Life Story Work can help care experienced children

A therapeutic benefit of Life Story Work is being able to link a child’s past to current feelings and behaviour. 

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