With a view to enabling the children of special needs in the
social welfare institutes to be taken into families at an early
date like normal children, the China Center of Adoption Affairs
(hereinafter referred to as CCAA) shall authorize some foreign
adoption organizations to seek adoptive families for children of
special needs. The implementation measures are formulated as
follows:
I. Basic requirements for foreign adoption organizations to
be authorized:
1. They are foreign adoption organizations currently acting in
cooperation with CCAA;
2. They shall abide by the Chinese laws and regulations as well
as stipulations of CCAA;
3. They hold non-profit certificates issued by their
governments, and in the case of U.S. organizations, they must be
organizations which have attained the legal status of 501 ( C )
(3);
4. They have permanent administrative offices and sound
setup;
5. They have special department and professional staff
responsible for seeking adoptive families for children of special
needs;
6. They are capable of rendering services in placing children of
special needs; and
7. They shall send post-adoption feedback reports according to
the demand of CCAA.
II. Procedure for foreign adoption organizations to be
authorized:
1. Foreign adoption organizations shall submit to CCAA the
application for assisting the placement of children of special
needs and relevant documents, certifying their qualifications and
capabilities to be authorized;
2. CCAA shall examine the basic qualifications and actual
performance of the foreign adoption organizations, and confirm
their qualifications for assisting the placement of children of
special needs;
3. CCAA shall send a signed Letter of CCAA Authorizing Foreign
Adoption Organizations to Seek Adoptive Families for Children of
Special Needs (for details, see Appendix 1) to the qualified
foreign adoption organization which is to be authorized; and
4. After receiving the Letter of CCAA Authorizing Foreign
Adoption Organizations to Seek Adoptive Families for Children of
Special Needs, the foreign adoption organization should
conscientiously study the responsibilities, requirements and
conditions for promoting the program of seeking adoptive families
for children of special needs in coordination with CCAA, send the
Letter in Reply to CCAA confirming its acceptance of authorization
when it accepts (see Appendix 2), and at the same time inform CCAA
in writing of the names of the person in charge and the liaison
officer, ways to get in touch, etc.
III. Basic requirements for adopters:
1. They are loving and caring, mentally qualified and prepared
to nurture children of special needs;
2. They have experience and skill to care for children of
special needs;
3. They have medical rehabilitation and nurturing plans
specially worked out for children of special needs;
4. They are in good economic position and their annual incomes
are higher than that of average adopters;
5. They are physically and mentally healthy, free from
contagious diseases, AIDS, cancers, psychosis or other diseases
which might affect their ability to nurse and nurture children of
special needs;
6. They are of good conduct and have no criminal records;
and
7. They must not give up adoptive relations and medical
care.
8. They are two-parent families in principle.
Foreign adoption organizations shall fill in for prospective
adopters the form of Basic Information about Prospective Adoptive
Parents (see Appendix 4). In case there is discrepancy between the
contents of the form and the contents of the application dossier
submitted to CCAA, CCAA shall refrain from approving the
application of the adopter/adopters, and make readjustment to that
case.
IV. Annual summation and termination:
Annual summation:
Authorized foreign adoption organizations are required to submit
to CCAA annual summary reports in writing every year about the
placement of children of special needs. The reports shall include
the following main items:
1. general situation about the life, medical care,
rehabilitation, education, etc. of the placed children of special
needs in the current year;
2. ways of placing children of special needs;
3. any proposals; and
4. whether their staff in charge of the program are competent or
to be replaced.
Foreign adoption organizations shall submit feedback reports
according to the demand of CCAA and fill in the form of Feedback
Information on Children of Special Needs (see Appendix 7). The time
for annual summation is from Dec. 1 to 31 of each year.
Termination:
In case an authorized foreign adoption organization violates the
relevant stipulations on foreign-related adoption and placement of
children of special needs, CCAA shall give the organization a
warning, and if the organization fails to set right or it persists
in the violation, CCAA shall terminate its qualification for
seeking adoptive families for children of special needs.
V. Points for attention:
1. Foreign adoption organizations must participate in this work
with responsible attitudes towards children and families, must not
take the adoption of children of special needs as an excuse to hand
over unqualified dossiers of adoptive families, or still more, make
exaggerative show of themselves as "authorized organizations";
2. After receiving the materials about a child of special needs
recommended by CCAA, the adoption organization must inform the
adoptive family of the child's situation strictly according to the
facts, not force it to accept, and the adopters shall make choice
of their own;
3. Foreign adoption organizations must not publish and circulate
materials about children of special needs through media, and not
use discriminatory and biased words in presenting materials about
children of special needs;
4. Foreign adoption organizations must keep properly the
materials about children of special needs, must not exchange these
materials among foreign adoption organizations; and
5. Foreign adoption organizations must place children of special
needs recommended by CCAA only, must not seek and select in private
children of special needs from the Chinese social welfare
institutes, neither link up the adoption of children of special
needs with their adoption program in China.
VI. For full particulars of implementation measures for
the authorized foreign adoption organizations to seek families for
children of special needs, see Management Procedure of CCAA for
Authorizing Foreign Adoption Organizations by CCAA to Seek Adoptive
Families for Children of Special Needs.
These measures will be put into effect from the day of the
publication. The Implementation Measures of China Center of
Adoption Affairs Entrust Adoption Organizations to Look for
Adoptive Families for Disabled Children and Older Children released
on Sep. 25, 2000 will be abolished simultaneously.
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The China Center of Adoption Affairs
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March 29, 2002