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Our Mission
The National Center for Adoption Law & Policy seeks to improve the law, policies, and practices associated with child protection and adoption systems. Every day we work towards realizing the goal that all children -- especially those who have been abused or neglected or are dependent on the state for their care -- have safe, healthy, permanent homes. Our primary tools in this regard are education, advocacy, and research.
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Our research efforts seek to demonstrate the methods by which foster care and adoption processes can be improved. Center advocacy projects are aimed at bringing about those improvements through changes in the law and the way the law is implemented. Finally, our education programs are designed to assist judges, lawyers, government managers, social workers and other process stakeholders to know about strategies for making child welfare and adoption laws work in ways that will provide kids the stable families they deserve as quickly, efficiently and safely as possible.
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Highlights from NCALP’s
Weekly News and Case Summaries FEATURED NEWS
INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION
KATHMANDU: “New inter-country adoption terms passed”
By: Staff Writer
In an effort to make the adoption process more transparent and less lengthy, the government of Nepal passed new terms and conditions for intercountry adoptions. Under the new rules, orphanages will no longer be responsible for matching children with potential adoptive parents. The orphanages will now submit to the Ministry for Women, Children and Social Welfare a list of eligible children from which potential adoptive parents may select a child to adopt. Adopting parents must go through either an international adoption agency or concerned embassies to adopt; the use of brokers or facilitators will no longer suffice. Also among the changes is that a yet-to-be determined adoption fee, to include a $300 monitoring fee, must be deposited with Nepal Rastra Bank. Applications for adoption will go through a formal approval process by the Adoption Recommendation Committee formed under the secretary of the Ministry for Women, Children and Social Welfare.
eKantipur.com, May 11, 2008
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FEATURED CASE
STATE LAW/Adoption Procedure/Investigation of Placement
CALIFORNIA: Dep’t. of Soc. Servs. v. Super. Ct.
The Court of Appeal of California, Third Appellate District, denied the petition for an extraordinary writ filed by petitioners State Department of Social Services, Adoption Services Bureau (DSS) and Siskiyou County Human Services Department (HSD), requesting that the orders of the respondent juvenile court returning two children to their prospective adoptive parent’s home be vacated. The children were removed from the home via emergency removal after the state discovered the parents had used corporal punishment on other children in the home. Three months later, the juvenile court found that the circumstances had changed and it would be in the children’s best interest to return the children to the prospective adoptive parents. The court of appeal ruled that the juvenile court had the authority to order the child returned to the home of the designated prospective adoptive parents, and that it was within the juvenile court’s discretion to look at the family’s changed circumstances since the time of removal to determine if return or permanent removal would be in the children’s best interest.
Cite: No. C057419; 2008 Cal. App. LEXIS 601 (Cal. Ct. App. April 23, 2008)
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