The CCAA recently issued referrals for families who were logged in by May 15, 2006. The last 2 referral batches for non-special needs children have included a larger number of Log-in-dates than in months past. We hope this is a good sign. The CCAA is making great efforts for find homes for special needs children. West Sands Adoptions is seeing more infants with minor needs on the shared special needs list. Many boys are available, as well as girls. Please let us know if you are interested in adopting a special needs child. The CCAA has also announced that it will make greater efforts to place harder-to-place children. Some of these children will be listed as “focus children.” Families who want to adopt these children may be given up to six months to get their paperwork ready. When families are looking to adopt “focus children,” the CCAA may also allow them to adopt a healthy child or another child with minor special needs or another “focus child” at the same time. We hope that this will mean that waiting children will have a better chance at finding loving, stable homes. Please contact us about our special needs China adoption program!