Creating Sustainable Solutions
for adoption ecosystem
Key Highlights
Of Our Work So Far
Maharashtra
MoU with WCD Dept for
Project Mumkin
in partnership with Bal Asha
Trust as our partner for
the entire State.
Telangana
MoU with WCD Dept
for Multiple
projects for the entire State.
Karnataka
MoU with the
Directorate of Child Protection
to implement our projects
in the entire State.
The impact of our work has been multi-fold
Children’s records digitized
Number of Districtss covered
Child Care Institutions Covered
Children on CARINGS Portral, waiting to be matched with a Parent
Children adopted/reserved for inter-country adoption
Maharashtra
Identifying Abandoned and Orphaned Children in Child Care Institutions (CCIs aka Child Shelters) and Supporting their Movement into the Legal Adoption Pool using our technology solution CLMS and extensive fieldwork.
With the support of the Department of Women and Child Development (DWCD) in Maharashtra, along with our partner, we are working in multiple districts of Maharashtra.
1. Project associates visit every Child Care Institution in the district, and digitize the data of children who are staying in the CCI in our technology solution CLMS
2. Based on certain indicators, the rule engine in CLMS recommends children for adoption evaluation.
3. Project Associates present the identified children before the CWC. Project associates prepare the documentation right from drafting letters on behalf of the CCI, drafting CWC orders on behalf of the CWC, drafting letters on behalf of the DCPU to execute the orders of the CWC.
4. Based on the CWC orders, our project associates update the child’s record in our CLMS and work on the adoption process for the child including giving paper publication, notification on Doordarshan following up for the final non-traceability report etc.
5. Once the process timelines are complete, the CWC declares the child legally free for adoption (LFA). Thereafter our associates work with the CCIs to prepare the Child Study Report (CSR), assist in getting the medical reports of the children, assist in preparing the Medical Examination Report (MER) of the children. Once the CSR and MER is completed our associates work with the linked specialised adoption agency to upload the child’s record (CSR, MER, LFA) on the CARINGS PORTAL so that child can be matched with a waiting parent.
6. On an average it takes anywhere between 6-8 months for a child to be declared legally free for adoption.
1.Training our implementation partners in digitizing the children’s data and entering the data in agreed CCIs to our CLMS solution and training them on the process of the ground.
2.Training them on how to update the CLMS solution on the cases that are being worked on.
We conducted training on identifying children for adoption evaluation, pre-adoption process, and the adoption process to the CCIs and the DCPU Team for all the 36 districts of Maharashtra in Pune. So far, we have trained close to 400+ stakeholders of the WCD. Karnataka.
Telangana
With the support of the WCD, WAIC executes multiple projects in Telangana and we are working in multiple districts of Telangana.
1. Visiting every Child Care Institution in the districts of Telangana and digitizing the data of every child in the CCI in our technology solution CLMS.
2. Present the children identified by CLMS for adoption evaluation in front of the Child Welfare Committee and monitor the orders given, following-up with the District Child Protection Unit if the orders are being implemented is one of the major tasks of our team after the digitization of the children’s data.
3. Providing ground support for local authorities to assess the cases of identified children and complete the documentation, so they can bring eligible children into the legal adoption pool.
4. Training the SAA and CCI social workers, Child Welfare Committee (CWC) members, and District Child Protection Unit (DCPU) social workers, specifically on the rules and processes of bringing abandoned and orphaned children into the legal adoption pool, as laid out in the Juvenile and Justice Act 2015, and the CARA Adoption Regulations.
We have been identified as a resource for adoption-related training in Telangana. So far, we have trained close to 900+ stakeholders of the WCD Telangana including District Child Protection Units, Child Welfare Committees, Social Workers, CCI Social Workers, and ChlidLine team.
We conduct regular consultative sessions with CWC and DCPU to present our findings and plan next steps for identified children.
We have conducted consultative sessions with WCD’s tech development partner and presented them with the requirements and functional specifications to build CLMS in the ongoing Child Protection Management Information System (CPMIS) being developed by the Telangana WCD.
Karnataka
Signed an MoU with the Directorate of Child Protection, Karnataka, to implement our projects in multiple districts of Karnataka.
1. Visiting every Child Care Institution in the districts of Karnataka and digitizing the data of every child in the CCI in our technology solution CLMS.
2. Present the children identified by CLMS for adoption evaluation in front of the Child Welfare Committee and monitor the orders given, following-up with the District Child Protection Unit if the orders are being implemented is one of the major tasks of our team after the digitization of the children’s data.
3. Providing ground support for local authorities to assess the cases of identified children and complete the documentation, so they can bring eligible children into the legal adoption pool.
We conducted training sessions on identifying children for adoption evaluation, pre-adoption process, and the adoption process to the CCIs and the DCPU Team in all the 31 districts of Karnataka. So far, we have trained close to 400+ stakeholders of the WCD Karnataka.
