ASCS Services

The Adoption Support Centre of Saskatchewan has been providing services to the adoption community since 1993. Our objective is to offer current information and resource services to the Saskatchewan adoption community. Aside from the services provided our members, we inform the public of developments occurring around adoption and advocate for and on behalf of those affected by adoption issues. We strive to provide the most up to date information, services and referrals to all those who contact ASCS with inquiries.

ASCS is the primary adoption information and resource centre for:

• Prospective, waiting and adoptive families
• Adoptees
• Expectant parents
• Birth parents
• Alternative families
• Foster parents
• Parents of children with special needs
• Students
• Professionals
• Agencies

ASCS provides:

• Pre- and post-adoption support
• Referrals
• Advocacy
• Adoption preparation
• Educational opportunities through partnerships
• Information
• Resource materials: library books, videos and audio tapes
• Conferences and workshops
• Provincial support groups

Information and Referrals

ASCS provides information and referrals relating to:

• General adoption
• Domestic adoption
• International adoption
• Step-parent adoption
• Teen and young parents
• Birth parents
• Crisis pregnancies
• Adoptee searches for birth parents
• Infertility
• Alternative families
• Kinship care
• Parenting and special needs issues (e.g., attachment, FASD)
• Research on adoption related issues

Adoption News Magazine

Adoption News is the bimonthly magazine published by ASCS, providing our readers with the most current adoption information.