Adoption Policy Support and Investigative Research Projects

• Investigation and research related to adoption
• Support the revision of Adoption Practice Manuals
• Support the legislation and amendment of laws related to adoption
• Operating and managing the ACMS(Adoption Centralized Management System)
• Dealing with matters related to international treaties regarding adoption, including preparations for the implementation of the Hague Convention on Protection of Children

Education Projects Related to Adoption

• Education for social workers at adoption agencies
• Education to improve people's awareness about adoption

Post-adoption Services for Domestic Adoptive Families

• Psychological and emotional support for domestic adoptive families
• Integrated services for domestic adoptive families
• Self-help groups for domestic adoptive families




Encourage and Promote Foster Care across Korea

We work to ensure that child in need of protection is placed in a foster home for a specific period of time, which meets a set of qualifications stated in the Child Welfare Act such as having no records of sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse and mental disease.

Foster Care Policy Development and Research

• Expand the foster care system for child who needs protection, improve legislations and policies to enhance the rights of the looked-after child, conduct a research, and build a database
  • Improve legislations and policies related to foster care
  • Operate a foster care policy group involving concerned individuals (foster parents, child to be placed, etc.)
  • Conduct a survey on the status of foster care and a research on making improvements
  • Provide legal support to a guardian of a looked-after child

Foster Home Supporting Center

• Support the Center to enhance its capacity to ensure safe growth of child in foster care and provide quality services
  • Provide capacity-building courses to individuals working for the Center
  • Conduct an evaluation on the Center
  • Organize a meeting and workshop for the heads of the Centers

Support for Child in Foster Care

• Recruit foster parents by increasing public awareness, share burden of care and provide a range of services to enable a child to return to his/her original family
  • Promote the foster care system
  • Operate an advisory committee on specialized foster home care
  • Offer education courses to foster parents
  • Provide benefits (e.g., initial financial support to buy children’s goods) to reduce the burden of foster parents