On July 3, 2006 Yury Pavlenko, Minister for Family, Youth and Sports of Ukraine announced the opening of the new adoption center in Ukraine. It is called the State Department for Adoption and Protection of Rights of the Child (SDAPRC). The new agency is a completely new agency from the previous National Adoption Center (NAC).

This marks the third such agency in Ukraine in approximately 18 months. According to Mr. Pavlenko the agency will begin processing applications again beginning September 1, 2006. There will no longer be a restriction on American families. Mr. Palvenko also made it clear that the objective of the new agency is to promote intracountry adoptions. It appears that the system is operational again at last. There are hundreds of  American families waiting to adopt not to mention the number of children waiting to be adopted.