MEXICALI.- The two major child welfare agencies from the local binational region met in the state capital of Baja California in order to improve coordination efforts between north and south to reintegrate orphaned and abandoned children that are homeless or in desperate need of help.

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There are currently too many children in need of a home; and one of the administration's priorities is expediting the adoption process in Mexico, improving the chances of children finding loving families on both sides of the border, said the First Lady of Baja California, Brenda Ruacho de Vega head the state chapter of Mexico's public child welfare agency, DIF, (Desarrollo Integral de la Familia in Spanish), joined also by Janet Barragán from the Child Welfare Services International Liaison Office of the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency, and the Protection Consul of the Mexico Consulate General in San Diego, Víctor Emilio Corzo Aceves.

The general DIF director for Baja California, Héctor Rivera, highlighted the need to join forces around both agencies's common interest of child welfare, agreements that will be very important for future children.

Moreover, several workshops were set up on topics like international adoption for minors, children's rights, besides also addressing some of aspects of the Binational Conference on these subjects that will take place on March 17 and 18 of this year, in San Diego, focused on international child abduction by parents.

Also present in Mexicali were Consuelo Luna Pineda, the director of the State DIF's Child and Family Protection office; Val Jiménez, Special Agent in Charge for the State of California Foreign Affairs office; Anthony Da Silva, Agent for the California Department of Justice, among other officials from both institutions.

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