NON-IDENTIFYING INFORMATION

ONTARIO ONLY-SEE BELOW

ADOPTEES
IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHICH CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY THAT HANDLED YOUR ADOPTION CONTACT
ADOPTION DISCLOSURE REGISTRY
 Ministry of Community & Social Services 2 Bloor Street West, 24 th Floor, Toronto, Ontario, M7A 1E9 (telephone 416-327-4730, fax 416-327-0573)
E-MAIL adoption.disclosure@css.gov.on.ca

This is a social history profile about your birth family and the circumstances leading to your adoption.
You are entitled to this information under Ontario's Child & Family Services Act.
If your adoption was handled through a Children's Aid Society, you must apply to that agency.

LIST OF ONTARIO CAS GROUPS

If handled by the Catholic Childrens Aid Society,
you must apply to 26 Maitland St. Toronto M4Y 1C6
Phone number 416-395-1650 fax 416-395 1616
e-mail gnichols@ccas.toronto.on.ca
If it was handled privately, that is, through a doctor or lawyer, apply directly to the Ministry (see numbers above).
If you do not know who handled your adoption, you may ask your adoptive parents or other family member, or you can contact the Ministry (see above) and ask.

When applying for non-identifying background information, include as much of the following data as you know-

  • -- Full adoptive name
  • -- Exact date of birth
  • -- City or town where you were born
  • -- Full names and address of adoptive parents when you went to live with them
  • -- Your birth name(if known)
  • -- Include a photocopy of your birth certificate,baptismal certificate, or driver's licence.
  • -- Include current name, address and phone number and e-mail address

Non-identifying background information is compiled from the file an agency or the Ministry has about your birth family. How much information you can obtain depends wholly upon how much information was gathered and recorded when you were born, and may include some or all of the following-
    

  • -ages of birth parents, their parents (ie. birth grandparents) and 
siblings (ie. birth aunts and uncles)-birth family's ethnic origin/
nationality/
    • 

  • -languages spoken-descriptions of birth relatives personalities, 
hobbies, talents and interests and physical appearances-medical infor-
mation
    • 

  • -levels of education attained and general employment history
    • 

  • -religion
    • 

  • -marital status of birth parents, grandparents etcetera
    • 

  • -outline of birth parents' relationship & circumstances leading to
 your adoption
PEASE NOTE:

non-identifying information takes any where from 30 days to (2) years in TORONTO and up to (4) years in some other locations.

APPLY AS SOON AS POSIBLE

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