c6015

Child's name: Samantha
Number: C6015
Birthdate: 5/96
State: Washington
Listed: 9/05, Updated 5/09

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SAMANTHA (5/96) has a positive outlook on life and amazing resilience, according to her CASA worker who has known this young teen for a long time. Energetic, friendly, and fun, Samantha is creative with a flare for drama. She loves writing, directing and being the heroine in her own creations. Adults are readily drawn to Samantha when they first meet her.

Samantha has some strong connections with significant people in her life, and she will be counting on her adoptive folk(s) to help her keep in contact with them. Samantha’s former foster mother believes Samantha has a lot of strengths and knows that with the right home environment she will thrive. She adores Samantha and would very much like to remain in an “aunt” role in her life and wants to be part of the support system for Samantha and her adoptive family. Samantha would also like to remain in contact with her two sisters and their adoptive family in central Washington.

In school, Samantha is doing very well and has just made the honor role. Having patient, attentive adults nearby to guide and support her helps her stay on track. She sometimes struggles with following directions and challenging authority.

While Samantha has made important progress in dealing with past losses and her early childhood experiences, she will likely need to have therapeutic supports in place for the foreseeable future to continue to move forward. Having very stable, consistent, predictable environments at school and at home help her to manage her daily routine and provide a sense of security and safety.

Samantha does best in smaller social settings and wide open spaces. Because the violence she witnessed as a young child was perpetrated by adult men, Samantha must have a very stable, emotionally strong, down-to-earth mother as a primary parent. Although Samantha’s social worker especially wants to hear from couples, she doesn’t want to miss out on hearing from single moms with strong support systems of family, friends, and community resources, who may be interested in learning more about parenting Samantha. Samantha would likely do best in a home with older daughters who could be strong role models for her.

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