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MARGIE (8/98) is a loving child of Alaska Native heritage who loves dogs and would love a forever-family who can focus their attention on her.

Margie’s many interests include playing the piano, riding her bike, swimming, playing video games, and spending time on the computer. She is an excellent reader and reading is a favorite pastime and a huge asset in school. Margie also enjoys pretty clothes and shoes and looking nice. Attention from her significant adults, particularly when it’s one-on-one, helps her to manage her special needs. Margie is enthusiastic these days about learning to cook; that is just one way that her adoptive parents will be able to readily engage with her. Trips to Alaska Native museums are among her favorite family outings, as Margie loves to learn about her culture and customs.

Legally free, Margie came into foster care in February 2005 with her two brothers, Michael, age 12, and Troy, age 6 (see C6940-41). To best meet each child’s individual needs, Margie is being placed in one adoptive family and the boys in another. Of course, each adoptive family will need to honor the children’s sibling bonds and help them as they are growing up to stay in contact with one another.

Margie’s special needs, which are related to fetal alcohol exposure, include attention difficulties, high energy, and neuro-behavioral issues. Her counseling program continues to provide support in helping Margie express her feelings in appropriate ways, build her social skills with peers, and talk about her feelings of grief and loss at being separated from her mother and other significant family members. Margie has three brothers, one adult sister, her mother, her “step-dad,” her grandfather, and her grandmother. She loves them all and is able to express her love for them both verbally and physically.

In school, Margie requires a small classroom setting with frequent breaks, time-out space, and services to help her with anger management and other behavioral issues. When her behavior issues are well managed, Margie is able to do quite well academically.

When Margie feels nurtured and accepted, she blossoms. Her worker wants to hear from families who are able to love and accept Margie just as she is, and who are able to see that she has the behavioral supports she needs to realize her full potential. Margie could do well as an only child; she could also do well with older siblings, especially if they are emotionally and socially healthy teens that could model good behavior and social skills for her.



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