Web: www.adoptionoverseas.org

Overseas Adoption Support and Information Services (OASIS) is a UK-based voluntary support group for people who wish to adopt, or who have already adopted, children from overseas.

OASIS is a national parent to parent support group for families at all stages of the inter-country adoption process.They have over 1,000 members, comprising those with adult children through to those just beginning to explore the process.

OASIS seeks to provide information based on their collective practical experience, through their website, magazine, information pack, membership directory, lending library and telephone information line. They also host seminars twice yearly where they aim to bring the best international experts on adoption-related issues to members. OASIS is run exclusively by parent volunteers, who are uniquely well placed to understand the issues members face.

OASIS was founded in 1995 in response to the lack of information available for British people wishing to consider inter-country adoption. Their basic philosophy was to provide information to enable people to adopt children who would not be placed with families within their own borders.

This philosophy continues to underpin their aims but, as OASIS has developed and as their experience has grown, they are now aiming to provide broader information on all aspects of inter-country adoption. They seek to support one another from the first steps of considering adoption and throughout the years as our children grow.