Strategic options for enhancing and expanding services 27
Table 1: Workshop attendees by state 137
Table 2: Services in the Australian Capital Territory 182
Table 3: The ACT service system measured against the good practice principles 191
Table 4: Services available in New South Wales 194
Table 5: The NSW service system measured against the good practice principles 204
Table 6: Services available in the Northern Territory 206
Table 7: Services available in Queensland 208
Table 8: The Queensland service system measured against the good practice principles 219
Table 9: Services available in South Australia 221
Table 10: The South Australia service system measured against the good practice principles 228
Table 11: Services available in Tasmania 230
Table 12: The Tasmanian service system measured against the good practice principles 235
Table 13: Services available in Victoria 237
Table 14: The Victorian service system measured against the good practice principles 247
Table 15: Services available in Western Australia 249
Table 16: The Western Australian service system measured against the good practice principles 256
Appendix A: Table 17: Summary of key options 295
Table 18: Enhancing mainstream services 299
Table 19: Expanding/enhancing existing post-adoption specific support services 302
Table 20: Resources for professional development and training 310
Table 21: Accessibility and coordination: A national web portal 312
Table 22: Community awareness and action 313
Strategic options for enhancing and expanding services 27
Table 1: Workshop attendees by state 137
Table 2: Services in the Australian Capital Territory 182
Table 3: The ACT service system measured against the good practice principles 191
Table 4: Services available in New South Wales 194
Table 5: The NSW service system measured against the good practice principles 204
Table 6: Services available in the Northern Territory 206
Table 7: Services available in Queensland 208
Table 8: The Queensland service system measured against the good practice principles 219
Table 9: Services available in South Australia 221
Table 10: The South Australia service system measured against the good practice principles 228
Table 11: Services available in Tasmania 230
Table 12: The Tasmanian service system measured against the good practice principles 235
Table 13: Services available in Victoria 237
Table 14: The Victorian service system measured against the good practice principles 247
Table 15: Services available in Western Australia 249
Table 16: The Western Australian service system measured against the good practice principles 256
Appendix A: Table 17: Summary of key options 295
Table 18: Enhancing mainstream services 299
Table 19: Expanding/enhancing existing post-adoption specific support services 302
Table 20: Resources for professional development and training 310
Table 21: Accessibility and coordination: A national web portal 312
Table 22: Community awareness and action 313
List of figures
Figure 1: Inter-relationships between proposed options. 297
Figure 2: Key areas for expanding/enhancing services 298
Figure 3: Draft program logic for a post-adoption knowledge translation and exchange (KTE) unit 312
Abbreviations
AASW: Australian Association of Social Workers
ABC: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
ACF: Australian Childhood Foundation
ACPMH: Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health
ACT: Australian Capital Territory
AEC: Australian Electoral Commission
AFIS: Adoption and Family Information Service
AIFS: Australian Institute of Family Studies
AIHW: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
AIS: Adoption Information Services
ALAS: Adoption Loss Adult Support Group
APS: Australian Psychological Society
ARCS: Adoption Research and Counselling Services
ARi: Adoption Research initiative
ARMS: Association of Relinquishing Mothers (in Victoria). Association Representing Mothers Separated from their Children by Adoption (In South Australia and Western Australia)
ART: Assisted reproductive technology
ATAPS: Access to Allied Psychological Services
BDM: Births, Death and Marriages
CBT: Cognitive-behavioural therapy
CDSMC: Community and Disability Services Ministers’ Conference
COAG: Council of Australian Governments
CPD: Continuing professional development
DHS: Department of Human Services
DNA: Deoxyribonucleic acid
DoH: Department of Health
DSM: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
DSS: Department of Social Services
EEG: Electroencephalograph
EMDR: Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing
FaHCSIA: Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (Now Department of Social Services)
FAQ: Frequently asked questions
FIND: Family Information Network Discovery
FRC: Family Relationship Centres
FSP: Family Support Program (administered by the Australian Government Department of Social Services)
GP: General practitioners
ISS: International Social Service
KTE: Knowledge translation and exchange
NASASV: National Association of Services Against Sexual Violence
NGO: Non-government organisation
NHMRC: National Health and Medical Research Council
NSW: New South Wales
NT: Northern Territory
OOHC: Out of home care
PARC: Post Adoption Resource Centre
PASQ: Post Adoption Support Queensland
PASS: Post Adoption Support Services
PD: Professional development
PTSD: Post-traumatic stress disorder
Qld: Queensland
RACGP: Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
RANZCP: Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
RASA: Relationships Australia South Australia
ROADS: Records of adoptions
SA: South Australia
SSRI: Selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors
STARTTS: NSW Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors
Tas.: Tasmania
UK: United Kingdom
VADCAS: Vulnerable and Disadvantaged Client Access Strategy
VANISH: Victorian Adoption Network for Information and Self Help
Vic.: Victoria
VVCS: Veterans and Veterans Families Counselling Service
WA: Western Australia
WAEC: Western Australia Electoral Commission
WASH: White Australian Stolen Heritage
WESNET: The Women’s Services Network
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