The B.C. government announced a new secure, personalized adoption website on Monday which aims to streamline the often lengthy adoption process for prospective parents.

Adopt BC Kids is the first website of its kind in Canada — no other jurisdiction in the country offers a user-friendly system that registers children available for adoption and prospective families in one accessible database.

"We want the process to be more personalized, less bureaucratic and a lot faster," said Stephanie Cadieux, B.C.'s Minister of Children and Family Development.

"We've heard from prospective parents that the paper-driven, office-based adoptions process is confusing," she said.

"They didn't know where they were in the process, what documents had been received and what was still needed."

Personalized family and child bios

Under the new system, parents can track their application online, search children available for adoption, write a personalized family biography and read biographies written by kids.

There will also be video and audio elements where children can say in their own words who they are and why they would be a good fit.

Adopt BC Kids is a secure government website where prospective parents can search children available for adoption and track applications.

"What I love about this website is that I'll now be able to go on and look at profiles and social workers will be able to see my profile and it will really help with the matching process. It will expedite the process," said Dawn Watters, an adoptive parent in the process of adopting again.

"I think it will really help to result in good matches for kids and families."

In 2015-16, the Ministry of Children and Family Development exceeded its adoption placement targets, finding homes for more than 600 children and teens.

In B.C., there are still roughly 1,000 children available for adoption.