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INFERTILITY   ADOPTION   POST-ADOPTION   FAMILY TREE   Adoption Resource Central    Heart of Adoption Articles to inspire   You can order Family Helper publications		Intercountry Adoption Act in Ontario BY ROBIN HILBORN, Family Helper editor
		(March 8, 2000) In Ontario the Ministry of Community and Social Services now has the power, under the Intercountry Adoption Act, to regulate international adoption agencies. On March 8 it announced the licensing of nine agencies for seven countries and the ban, henceforward, on using any agency not licensed for international adoption. You can adopt only from countries for which there is a licensee. Intercountry Adoption Act in Ontario, www.familyhelper.net/ad/iaa.html Statutes in various provinces, www.acjnet.org/cgi-bin/legal/legal.pl?lkey=al&ckey=legislative&tkey=subjects Out-of-Ontario agency must be MCSS-licensed -- Pat Fenton of ACO attended a presentation of Ontario's Adoption Unit (MCSS) on April 10. She found out that Ontario residents who want to adopt internationally may use an international adoption agency in another province (or another country), if that agency has a licence from MCSS (none do so far) and if that agency is incorporated in Ontario as a non-profit group. (It needs an Ontario office operation, not just voice mail and a P.O. Box). This is consistent with the rule that Ontarians must use an MCSS-licensed agency to adopt internationally. INFO: Adoption Council of Ontario, www.adoption.on.ca, aco@adoption.ca ________________________________________ You may reproduce this item with the credit: "Source: Family Helper (www.familyhelper.net)"