by blick | Sep 7, 2023 | Events
VANISH delivered professional training to over 50 post-adoption support and mental health professionals in November 2023. The next training dates will be published in early 2024. Looking Through the Lens of Adoption: Working with Loss and Trauma Related to Past and...
by blick | Sep 7, 2023 | Events
All VANISH members are invited to attend this year’s Special General Meeting, featuring a presentation from guest speaker Jeannot Farmer: “The Scottish Adoption Apology: Tackling Historic Adoption Injustice.” When: Friday 22nd September 2023, from 4pm to 6pm Where:...
by blick | Sep 7, 2023 | News
In March 2022, the Victorian Government formally responded to the Inquiry into responses to historical forced adoption in Victoria, supporting 33 of the 56 recommendations made by the Legal and Social Issues Committee. The response includes a plan to develop...
by blick | Sep 7, 2023 | News
On Saturday 25th March 2023, VANISH and ARMS Vic held a commemorative event at the Taken Not Given memorial statue in St Andrew’s Place Reserve, Melbourne, attended by about 35 guests, including members of ARMS, VANISH, and Origins. The guest speaker was the...
by blick | Sep 6, 2023 | News
When adoptee Brendan Watkins searched for his parents, he discovered that his mother was a nun and his father a priest. Award-winning journalist Suzanne Smith’s covered the story of the children of priests and their struggle for justice for ABC TV’s Compass (13 Aug...
