Regional Alternative Child Care Office XII

NACC also has counterparts in the different regions nationwide known as the Regional Alternative Child Care Office (RACCO) which is headed by a RACC Officer. The RACCO is tasked to ensure a well-functioning system of receipt of local petitions for CDCLAA and adoption, applications for foster care, and other requests regarding alternative placement and well-being of children.

The RACCO shall have dedicated personnel who shall exclusively handle each of the following:

  1. Facilitate petitions for CDCLAA;
  2. Domestic administrative adoption;
  3. Intercountry adoption;
  4. Foster care, including kinship care;
  5. All other forms of alternative child care including family-like care, and residential care; and
  6. Rectification of simulated birth pursuant to R. A. No. 11222.

There shall be a Regional Child Placement Committee (RCPC) in each RACCO which shall be supervised by the RACC officer. It shall be composed of a multidisciplinary group including a child psychiatrist or psychologist, a medical doctor, a member of the Philippine Bar, an adoption social worker, and a representative of an NGO involved in child welfare.

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