How to put a child up for adoption in ontario

September 17, 6: I heartily applaud any efforts to encourage adoption as a method to grow families, but the crisis is not about recruiting more adoptive parents.

AdoptOntario, the provincial database of waiting children and parents, boasts 20, registered families, yet only a fraction of these ever adopt. The real adoption crisis is that a bloated and broken system is preventing the timely match of waiting families with children in need. My husband and I started our adoption journey more than two years ago. Despite our willingness to adopt an older child, I was told that due to our cultural background and lack of parenting experience, we would not likely meet the unique needs of any child at CAS.

We decided to pay for a private homestudy with a licensed social worker. The process took just over a year and included classroom courses, dozens of interviews, criminal record checks, and plenty of bureaucracy. While pursuing international adoption, we also continued the process in Ontario. In May, we went to the Adoption Resource Exchange ARE , a biannual forum where profiles of children from across the province are made available for viewing by potential families.

It is a way for families to apply for children outside of their CAS regions, as families are normally restricted to registering only with their local CAS. After repeated follow-up calls, I uncovered that 14 families had expressed interest in this child, yet the file had not been touched for months. One was four years old and the other a young adolescent. After four months, we had not heard any news and I contacted each CAS. My first inquiry about the younger child was passed from colleague to colleague, each claiming that the other was responsible for the file.

The longer a young child stays in foster care, the harder it is for healthy attachment to begin.

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Four months to a four-year-old is a long time. My inquiry into the progress on the older child also came to a dead end. I followed up with AdoptOntario, which verified that it indeed had been sent. I provided the email confirmation to the CAS workers, yet they insisted they had no record.

Since there is no independent oversight of CAS, there was nothing further we could do. Determined not to be discouraged, we approached our local CAS again, hoping our completed homestudy would help us. The homestudy was designed by the Ministry of Children and Youth services to be portable across public, private and international adoptions.

Yet in my phone conversation with the CAS contact, I found out that our private homestudy would need to be updated with a series of CAS interviews, which could add another six months of waiting, and that intake meetings for parents happen only periodically. How much of our time waiting for bureaucracy to catch up could have been spent caring for a waiting child? We had just missed the May meeting, so now we are waiting for the October intake meeting.

If all goes well, and we are accepted by our local CAS, it will be 15 months since we became AdoptReady. October will mark two years since our decision to pursue adoption. But adoption is not about us. How many thousands of other parents are in the same situation?

How many of the 30, waiting children could have found families by now? It would be easy to lose faith just based on the number of people who have told me they have given up or are thinking about it.

Years ago, the adoption system in England was similarly inefficient and slow. Now the adoption approval process typically takes only six months. Likewise, there is oversight and accountability for adoption. This means no incentive to improve or answer for errors.

It is time for Ontario to look across the pond for inspiration and best practices. In fact, Ontario identified many issues with the adoption system in a government report years ago but never acted on the recommendations.

In Ontario, though, success will not come from more prospective parents.

Success will come only from a government that stops being afraid of changing the inefficient CAS system and starts acting on behalf of the waiting children.

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