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November: Adoption Awareness month

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This month provides an opportunity to celebrate and promote awareness about adoption.

Adoption in BC is governed by a provincial law called the Adoption Act. Anyone who lives permanently in BC can apply to adopt, including opposite- and same-sex couples.

There are four different types of adoptions:

  • placement by the director of adoption (who works for the Ministry of Children and Family Development),
  • placement by an adoption agency,
  • direct placement (when the birth parent places a child with a non-relative), and
  • relative adoption (adoption by a relative or step-parent).

Want to learn more?

A good place to start is with Clicklaw’s commonly asked questions:q+a icon

Do you use ‘Your Welfare Rights’ guide? Your feedback is important!

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If you are one of the many users of the popular LSS publication Your Welfare Rights: A Guide to BC Employment and Assistance, the Legal Services Society would very much value your feedback! 

YourWelfareRightsGuideA short survey is available here. Please complete this quick questionnaire by Monday, November 14, 2011. 

Although LSS is revising the guide primarily to incorporate changes in the law, they are also taking this opportunity to solicit brief but important feedback from their users.

According to Alex Peel, the Publications Development Coordinator, LSS will be collecting more extensive feedback on the entire publication in the next year. Please feel free to email Alex if you have any questions or information to share about this or any other LSS publication.