Adoption has directly impacted the lives of more than 300,000 Australians

Adopted people are often without a peer support network and we are here to change that.

Let’s build our community together

GSASG

Great Southern Adoptee Support Group

support - information -advocacy

Welcome to our community!

Our Projects

  • A person reading a stone sculpture of a newborn baby in a hand next to a colorful mosaic circle artwork outdoors with shadows and fallen leaves.

    Are you a Late Discovery Adoptee ?

    An unknown number of people still do not know they are adopted!

    We want the WA government to reverse their decision AND support recommendation #36 from the inquiry.

    This reform would require the government to develope a trauma informed notifcation system to let adopted people know they are adopted.

    Read more about this issue below.

    Click Here
  • Eight women sitting around an oval wooden table in a meeting room, smiling at the camera. The table has notebooks, papers, glasses, and bottles of water. The room has beige walls, a window, a cushion on a bench, a lamp, and a door in the background.

    Albany Adoptee Support Group

    GSASG meets on the first Wednesday of every month except January.

    11 - 1230 am

    Upstairs @ The Premier Hotel

    York St Albany

    Prefer online support ?

    Join our monthly group of adopted people from around Australia.

    Get in contact for more information

    Learn More
  • Jennifer McRae and Danae Witherow standing in front of a purple sign that says "ngala" with a heart logo. Ngala was responsbile for thousands of forced adoptions One woman is holding the 2024 Forced Adoption Inquiry Report held in Western Australia

    2024 WA Inquiry

    It took 2 years of lobbying the WA Labor Government!

    Our Chair, Jen McRae was the lead advocate and principal petitioner for the WA inquiry into forced adoption.

    Read the report here…

    Broken Bonds, Fractured Lives report
  • Forced adoption survivors gathered outside the Beryl Grant Community Centre. One woman in a pink shirt holds a sign that says 'Change the Name.' Others are talking and taking photos. The building has a modern design with a white roof and glass doors.

    Renaming the Beryl Grant Community Centre (Albany)

    Owned by Juniper Aged Care, the BGCC is named after one of WA's most prolific facilitators of forced adoption.

    In June 2024 the community centre was renamed and we thank Juniper Aged Care for listening to our concerns.

    View the petition
  • An open suitcase filled with two black plastic boxes containing books, placed on a yellowish carpeted floor. Mobile library of books written from the perspective of forced adoption survivors.

    Jane's mobile library

    Check out and take home a piece of (mostly) Australian adoptee literature. Jane has a diverse collection of Adoptee memoir and related works of truth telling.

    Australian adoptee memoir
  • Michelle Davies a forced adoption survivor and former West Australian National party leader Mia Davies standing outdoors, smiling, dressed in business attire, with the parliament of Western Australia in the background. Photo taken in 2022

    Advocacy with decision makers

    We have developed healthy networks with West Australian parliamentarians from across the political divide.

    We welcome respectful dialogue with anyone who would like to learn more about the lifelong impacts forced adoption has had on adopted people.

    Truth telling in the WA Parliament
  • Event poster for GASA Art Weekend September 12-13 at Coraki Holiday Cottages, King River, Albany, with logos for Forced Adoption Support Services and Great Southern Adoptive Support Group.

    Project Funding

    We've got some big ideas that need funding. Maybe you are keen to help and be part of our change making ?

    Click Here

  • Australian Digital Museum of Adoption

    Digital collection of historical objects, documents, paraphrenalia, quotes, newspaper clippings and more.

    Email GSASG with a photo and description of your artefact for inclusion in the museum

    Click Here
  • Logo for Great Southern Adoptee Support Group featuring a stylized orange and yellow leaf design and the words 'Great Southern Adoptee Support Group' with support, information, and advocacy listed.

    We need you. Start your own support group!

    We can help support your quest to set up a support group in your community. It's easier than you may think!

    Click Here