c7177

Child's name: Jessica
Number: C7177
Birthdate: 9/95
State: Washington
Listed: October 2008

If you have completed an adoption homestudy and would like to have your information forwarded to this child's worker, contact us.

JESSICA (9/95) is a resilient young teen who is very responsive to loving support in structured settings. Jessica tells us that she loves to read, write, and swim, and has a great love for animals. She is especially drawn to horses, although she has not had much experience with them. Jessica has excelled in her Karate classes where she got along well with other students. Jessica seems to have settled in well to her new foster home.

In school, Jessica has graduated to a regular classroom program where she has academic and behavioral supports. She made some huge behavioral gains last year and no longer requires a self-contained classroom setting. Academic supports in Math and Reading are helping her to address the challenges of some learning delays.

Legally free, Jessica came into foster care in February 2004. While Jessica is 13-years old, her social, emotional, and academic levels are more like those of a 10-year old due to issues of past trauma. Jessica also has symptoms of attention difficulties (mostly the inattentive type) and up and down moods, On-going therapy to help her deal with her symptoms of past trauma will likely be needed for the foreseeable future. Jessica’s treatment program also includes several psychotropic medications that are helping her to better manage her feelings and behavior.

Jessica says that she would like to live on a farm or out in the country, and have siblings. While her worker thinks that having siblings could be a plus for Jessica and living in a rural setting might be great, she also believes that Jessica could do well in other family settings, too. It is going to be essential for her new parent(s) to understand what Jessica has experienced and what therapeutic and educational supports and services can help her. Her worker believes that Jessica’s resilience, which has seen her through so much, will help her to continue to move forward in her healing and recovery.

Participating with her in family counseling during her transition into her adoptive home could be a way for her adoptive folk(s) to show their love and commitment to her. And it would also be a way of demonstrating to Jessica their acceptance of using therapeutic supports to help family members in their personal growth and development, and to resolve past issues of concern.

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