A lot of you might ask what is the first step of the adoption process. The Domestic Administrative Adoption process starts with the Attendance to Forum by the adopters also known as the adoptive applicants/parents. Each Regional Alternative Child Care Office (RACCO) in the Philippines schedules Pre-Adoption Forum where social workers provide orientation on adoption. Once the adoptive applicants have decided that they are willing to adopt, they have to submit a complete set of requirements to the RACCO.
Upon receipt of the documentary requirements, the RACCO social worker will then schedule a home visit to assess the application. The social worker may conduct the home visit more than once depending on the circumstance and will also conduct collateral interviews. Right after the thorough visits and validation, the social worker is now ready to prepare the comprehensive Home Study Report.
The adoptive applicants together with their adoption social worker will then appear before the Regional Child Placement Committee (RCPC) for approval. The RCPC is the matching committee organized by the National Authority for Child Care (NACC), through the RACCO, that is tasked to deliberate applications for adoptive parents and conducts regional matching of children legally available for adoption. The approved adoptive applicants will then be included in the National Roster of Approved Applicants.
The approved applicants will then be presented during the Regional Matching Conference. This is where cases of children legally available for adoption will be presented along with the approved adoptive applicants. The RCPC will match the children to adoptive applicants who could best provide for their needs. Adopters may choose the gender and age of the child that they prefer to adopt. A Certificate of Matching will be issued once a child is matched to adoptive applicants. The social worker will then inform the adoptive applicants of the result of the matching conference. The adoptive applicants has to respond in writing within two working days, whether they will agree with the proposed placement or not. The adoptive applicants may decline placement of a child to them provided that their reasons are valid, subject to the assessment of the social worker.
Adoptive applicants who will accept the proposed placement will be issued with a Pre-Adoption Placement Authority (PAPA). The social worker will then schedule the adoptive applicants for a visit to the Child Caring Agency where the child is temporarily sheltered. The adoptive applicants may visit once or twice to be familiar with the child and establish a bond. The child has to be placed to his or her adoptive parents within ten days after issuance of the PAPA.
A supervised trial custody for a period of six months, which may be reduced or lengthened, shall be conducted by the adoption social worker. This is the period during which the social worker oversees the adjustment and emotional readiness of both adopters and adoptees in stabilizing their filial relationship. After a thorough assessment of satisfactory adjustment where bonding and rapport have taken place between the child and the adoptive applicants, a final supervisory report, an updated social case study report and recommendation for filing of the domestic administrative adoption shall be prepared by the adoption social worker.
After which, a petition for Adoption shall be prepared and signed by the petitioners or the adoptive parents. The notarized petition together with complete and original supporting documents shall be filed by the petitioners with the RACCO of the city or municipality where the adoptive parents reside.
To further ascertain the fitness, good intentions and sincerity of the adoptive parents, the RACCO shall require them to personally appear before it at least twice during the application period and on specific dates determined by the RACCO. Likewise, a copy of the petition shall be published once a week for three successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation.
In all proceedings for adoption, the NACC shall decide on the basis of all the documents presented to it, as well as the evidence gathered during the personal interviews conducted by the RACCO with the adoption social worker, adoptive parents and the adoptee.
If the NACC is convinced that based on the petition and its supporting documents the adoption shall redound to the best interest of the child or prospective adoptee, the NACC through the Executive Director, shall issue an Order of Adoption.
A Certificate of Finality shall be issued by the Executive Director after the lapse of ten calendar days from the receipt of the Order of Adoption by the concerned parties (adoptive parents, RACCO, LCR and PSA) and no motion for reconsideration or appeal was made.
The adopter or adoptive parents shall submit the certified true copy of the Order of Adoption and a Certificate of Finality to the Local Civil Registrar where the child was originally registered thirty calendar days from the receipt of the Certificate of Finality.
An amended Certificate of Live Birth shall be issued to the child and shall not bear the annotation or any remark that will disclose the facts of the adoption.
For more information, you may visit https://www.nacc.gov.ph/.
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***RACCO - Regional Alternative Child Care Office : Regional Offices of the National Authority for Child Care (NACC)
***Adopters: Adoptive Applicants/Parents
***Child: Adoptee
RA No. 11642 - The Domestic Administrative Adoption and Alternative Child Care Act Implementing Rules and Regulations
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