LINKS Adoption Registry
LINKS ADOPTION SUPPORT

WINNIPEG MB CANADA


LINKS is a volunteer, non-profit organization, offering support for all members of the triad i.e. adoptee, birthparent, and adoptive parent by providing a free registry and a search service. We also provide support for other relatives who have had family separated by adoption.  Some are unable to obtain any, or limited,  assistance from the Post Adoption Registry of Manitoba so we will include them in our free registry and also offer our search service.

Our goals are: Support - Education - Informing the public - Promoting legislative changes in attitudes, policies, and adoption legislation.



The Triad speaks out

  • An Adoptee's perspective: an adoptee has never touched the hand of kin nor seen a face that looked like their own.

  • A Birth Parent's perspective: a birth mother or father has never stopped grieving for that part of themselves they relinquished years ago.

  • An Adoptive Parent's perspective: an adoptive parent has never stopped fearing that one day their adopted child, for whatever reasons, will seek their roots and true identity and leave them for another.




IMPORTANT We have over 700 people who have registered with us, but have moved or changed their e-mail address, telephone number, etc. and we are unable to contact them. Many have been reunited but have not advised us of this. We have sent several hundred e-mails to people who have registered, and have not received a reply. If you are one of these people, please contact us to update your information.



If you are an adoptee you can apply for your original birth certificate with your birthmother and birthfather's full name or if you are a birth mother or birth father, you can receive the adoptee's full adopted name. Complete this form to receive this information. If a veto has been placed on a file you may not get all this information Access to Records



Had a meeting on Friday January 11, 2019 with Manitoba government officials regarding the matter of placing vetoes on adoption records.

The meeting clarified the procedure that is followed by the Post Adoption Registry when they do a search for a birthparent or an adoptee. While I still do not entirely agree with their procedure, if it is followed by all workers the way it is intended, it is better than what it appeared to be.
1. Before a non-disclosure veto is placed on a file, a) the individual must either submit the completed form to the Registry, or b) verbally declare they want no contact or non-disclosure, or c) do not respond to further outreach requests to register for contact or to advise if they want to place a veto.
2. If a person registers with the Post Adoption Registry and signs a contact preference agreement, then identifying information will be disclosed.
3. Before a non-disclosure veto is placed on a file, the person must be contacted and spoken to directly. If the initial letter is NOT replied to or is returned undelivered, then NO veto will be placed and identifying information will be released.

When an individual requests a search by the Post Adoption Registry, it is their policy to advise that individual to first complete and file the Access to Records to obtain the identifying information first as there is the possibility a veto may be placed when the other person is contacted. This procedure is what LINKS have been advising its members to follow.
A copy of a veto will not be given to the person requesting it as it belongs to the person who placed it on file.

Those who have had a 'contact veto' placed against them may still receive the full name of the person placing the veto by signing an undertaking that if the name is released, no contact will be made, under threat of a fine of up to $50,000.00. I don't think people are being told about this option, but are just being denied the information. If anyone wants the name and has no plans of contact, reapply.

Registry
5,560 records (1,569 REUNITED, 19 FOUND but no contact, 90 CLOSED account unable to locate registrant or have abandoned their search)


To register with LINKS or to request assistance in doing a search call: Royden at 204-257-4742 or


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First Nations children, birthparents and siblings of those adopted in Manitoba or out of Manitoba and Canada, should also register with the following: click here

For a complete list of Child and Family Services Contacts go here



All Provinces and Territories in Canada have passed legislation to open past and future adoption records.



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LINKS
c/o Royden Kading
89 St. Michael Road
Winnipeg MB
R2M 2K8

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