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NORCAP - Supporting Adults Affected by Adoption
112 Church RoadWheatley
OX33 1LU
Tel: 01865 875 000
Fax: 01865 875 686
Web: www.norcap.org.uk
Best time to telephone: Mondays: 10.00 am - 12:00 pm, 1.00 pm - 4.00 pm, & 5.00 pm - 7.30pm Tuesdays - Fridays: 10.00 am - 12.30 pm & 1.00 pm - 4.30 pm
NORCAP is a self-help, support group for all parties to adoption - adopted adults, birth relatives, and adoptive relatives. It offers the opportunity to talk to someone who has similar experiences. There are many contact leaders around the country who will be pleased to discuss with you your hopes and fears, problems and triumphs.
NORCAP has maintained a Contact Register for the last 21 years. The group collects information, from members' experiences and on means of tracing birth relatives. They have produced a useful booklet Searching for Family Connections which explains how an adopted person can make effective, yet discreet enquiries and so avoid causing distress to the person sought. NORCAP offers help to birth relatives to enable messages to be left for the adopted adult in all the logical places the adoptee could contact. In some instances NORCAP are able, via a non disclosure contract, and in conjunction with other voluntary and statutory agencies, to seek out adopted adults.
NORCAP has an Intermediary Service which offers members a discreet and sympathetic go-between service. This has proved both popular and successful.
NORCAP publishes a regular newsletter sharing ideas and experiences encouraging reciprocal help between members and provides a research service for those members unable to visit the NORCAP Search Room or to undertake their own search. Search-in days are held several times a year at the Family Record Centre in London when members are encouraged to conduct their own search with support and assistance available from experienced Contact Leaders and Researchers.
For further information please send a stamped addressed envelope to the above address.
Checked: July 2006
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