c7090

Child's name: Kerry
Number: C7090
Birthdate: 8/00
State: Oregon
Listed: July 2008

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Legally free, KERRY (8/00) is a resilient child with a good heart and an outgoing personality. With his high energy, he needs attentive parents to help him channel that energy in healthy ways. While basketball is a passion, he also enjoys most games involving physical activity. Kerry also loves doing arts and crafts. He often creates cards and little gifts to give to his sisters.

Kerry, who came into foster care as an infant, was previously in an adoptive home with three of his four sisters. Recently, the adoptive parents concluded that they were unable to meet Kerry’s behavioral needs, and he returned to foster care. In his current foster family, Kerry's behavior has dramatically improved. His foster parents speak very positively about Kerry and his behavior. Good structure, a consistent and predictable daily routine, consistent rewards and consequences, and regular opportunities to channel his energy in a positive ways are practices in his foster home that are helping him do well.

Kerry has very close ties to his sisters and looks forward to visiting and giving them gifts. The girls are a very important and stable part of Kerry’s life, and he will be counting on his adoptive parent(s) to help him know his sisters as he is growing and to maintain his sibling bonds.

Kerry’s behavioral challenges include symptoms of attention difficulties, high energy, learning issues, anxiety, and past trauma. There may also be some fetal alcohol effects. According to his most recent psychological evaluation, "Kerry is functioning in the average range of intellectual abilities (but) is not able to take information in at the rate he can comprehend.”

Kerry sees his therapist weekly and it is recommended that he have such therapeutic support for the foreseeable future. Currently, he and his therapist are working on issues of past trauma and his feelings of grief and loss over being separated from his sisters.

Kerry has endured many obstacles in his short life, but he has continued to prevail. While Kerry will thrive in a home with other children, because he likes the interaction and comfort of having brothers and sisters, it important that he be the youngest child in the home.

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