by Hana Crisp | Nov 19, 2025 | Articles & factsheets, Resources
By Cheyne Bull, General Psychologist & Adoptee Family contact and reunion The decision to try and make contact with people from your family of origin can be a long time in the making. As we discuss in other VANISH articles, people impacted by family separation can...
by Michelle Blanchard | Nov 19, 2025 | Self-Search Mini Guides
This mini-guide for people searching for family separated by adoption focuses on outreach and building relationships with family. This resource has been developed by VANISH with the support of the Victorian Government Department of Justice and Community Safety as a...
by Hana Crisp | Oct 21, 2025 | Articles & factsheets, Resources
By Cheyne Bull, General Psychologist & Adoptee The right to search for family Knowing your birth family (family of origin) is part of our fundamental human right to know our identity. It is natural and normal to want to know about and try to develop a...
by Hana Crisp | Sep 29, 2025 | Events, News
VANISH has recently launched a new series of psychoeducational webinars to help you learn more about the lifelong impacts of adoption. Delivered by post-adoption experts, each session will offer psychoeducation followed by a Q&A in a supportive space. Next up is a...
by Hana Crisp | Sep 24, 2025 | Articles & factsheets, Resources
Right now, across Australia many people are searching for a lost family member. In some cases, the cause of the separation is adoption, but this is not always the case. For example, a person may have grown up in a single parent household and now wishes to search for a...
