Human Reproduction 2011

Ms Helen Kane

ARAFEMI

Helen Kane is a social worker with many years of experience in the adoption, infertility, access to information (both adoption and donor conception), and in public health and private infertility clinics. She was an infertility counselor at Prince Henry’s Hospital and Melbourne IVF. She was the Manager of the Donor Registers service at the Infertility Treatment Authority in Melbourne from 2005 to 2009, when the changes in legislation led to the closure of these Registers, and the transfer of their functions to other bodies. She had previously managed Adoption Information Services in several private adoption agencies, and had been involved with the implementation of the 1984 Adoption Act in Victoria, which introduced access to information for adopted people, no matter when the adoption took place. She was also involved, as a member of the Victorian Infertility Counsellors Group, with developing a model of practice for use with people wishing to access information in relation to donor conception, as a consequence of the 1984 Infertility legislation.

She is currently Manager of Family Services at ARAFEMI in Victoria.