Letterbox is a communication exchange system that helps birth relatives and adopters to stay in contact in a confidential way. Letters are sent to the Letterbox co-ordinator who quality assures the letters, retain an electronic copy and then share the letter with a birth relative or adoptive parent.
How can the Letterbox help my child?
- Helps children gain a positive sense of their adoptive and birth identity.
- Adopters can ask questions and receive answers from birth family which will help them to respond to some of their child’s questions.
- Exchanging information allows an adopted child to know about any changes or important events within their birth family.
- Letters can reassure children about the wellbeing of their birth relatives and can offer some comfort to birth families.
- Exchanging letters shows a child that their adoptive family acknowledges the importance of their birth family and that they accept and value everything about them.
- Letterbox can also help to prepare a child for their future as an adopted adult.
Letterbox information for birth families
Letterbox information for adopters