Parent Finders Ottawa is an Ottawa based, volunteer, non-profit organization governed by a Board of Directors elected every two years. We are the longest running adoption support group in the country still holding public information meetings and still publishing a regular newsletter.

Our membership is made up of adult adoptees, birth parents and other birth relatives including siblings, as well as fostered adults and adoptive parents.  For many years, most of our members were adoptees. But in the last ten years we have seen a great increase in the number of birth parents especially birth fathers who have traditionally not been involved in adoption searches. Various surveys over the years have shown that our membership comes from all walks of life and is truly representative of the community at large. Although we are based in Ottawa, our members come from all over the country and around the world. The common link for everyone is adoption, search and reunion.

Parent Finders Ottawa maintains a database of over 12,000 records. We are linked with the National Parent Finders database which has over 60,000 entries. The Ottawa chapter of Parent Finders has been associated with over 1,500 reunions over the last 30+ years.  During this time we have helped thousands of Canadians to search and reunite with their birth families.