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CHOICES Adoption & Counselling Services
CHOICES is committed to providing a professional comphrehensive, client centered adoption service which best meets the needs of everyone in the adoption constellation with paramount consideration given to the best interests of the child.
Process
CHOICES has placed many young children from China. Our facilitator for China is Family Outreach International (FOI) in Ontario. FOI has had extensive experience with placing children from Chinese orphanages. For further details or to request a registration package, please contact the office directly.
The main steps are:
- Registration with an adoption agency
- The preparation of a home study by a qualified social worker
- The assessment of the family's suitability to adopt a child from China by the BC government (this assessment is based on the home study)
- The assessment of the family's suitability by the Chinese government
- Application to Immigration Canada to sponsor a child by adoption
- A child is proposed from the government of China, complete with medicals and pictures (process differs for Waiting Children)
- A trip to China to formally adopt the child proposed
- Two post placement reports at 6 months and 12 months after the child has come home
The children available for adoption have been abandoned and are being cared for within government run orphanages. Most children are female, and, at the time of the adoption, are usually between 10 and 12 months of age. Older children are also available if requested. Applicants cannot choose a particular child in China.
The proposal of a child consists of one or more photographs, a brief description of the child which includes in most cases a history of the child's entry to the orphanage, a form describing the development and habits of the children, and a medical report stating the child's biometrics and the results of blood and liver tests. It is not normal for an AIDS test to have been conducted.
Generally the children are well cared for in the orphanage. Because of the effects of institutionalization, they tend to be slightly delayed developmentally. In some cases, orphanages place the children with a local family, and these children tend to be free of developmental delays.
In the case of BC residents, BC stipulates that applicants must wait one year from the time of placement before applying for another child. The China Center of Adoption Affairs (CCAA) requires that there is a one year difference between the adoption of the first child and submission of the second application.