c7193

Child's name: Bradley
Number: C7193
Birthdate: 5/97
State: Washington
Listed: November 2008, Updated 8/09

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BRADLEY (5/97) wants folks to know that he really wants to be adopted! Bradley is a boy who loves the outdoors. An enthusiastic family camper and explorer with an interest in crawly things, such as lizards, he has just joined Boy Scouts and is looking forward to many new adventures. Bradley thrives on adult attention, and he is front and center when it’s his turn to have one-on-one with a favorite adult. Engaging and chatty, he benefits from being around calm, patient adults who can interact with him in matter-of-fact ways, which help to curb his tendency to get overly stimulated. The adults who know him best say that Bradley is ready to be adopted.

Bradley is now in middle school, where he is expected to meet the academic goals of his individual educational plan as he did last year.

Legally free, Bradley came into foster care originally in April 2006. He has been with his current foster family since June 2007.

Bio-feedback therapy, which has reduced his need for medication therapy, is being successfully used to help Bradley curb the over-stimulation he routinely experiences. It has helped him learn some self regulating tools to assist him in focusing and increasing his social awareness and social skills. It has also helped him to focus so that he can truly hear what others are saying to him and, by doing so, helps him in his efforts to make friends. There are other therapeutic supports, too, that are helping Bradley feel more at ease and less fearful about the changes that are happening in his life.

It will be essential that the adoptive family chosen for him be able to advocate for the resources he will need to achieve his potential and to establish cooperative, interactive relationships with teachers and therapists. For the foreseeable future, talk therapy or “talking through something” will likely not work well for Bradley.

While Bradley’s worker would like to place him with a two-parent family, she does not want to miss out on hearing from those skilled single moms and dads who have strong support systems of family, friends, and community resources behind them.

Kind, patient, nurturing folk(s) who have a warm sense of humor, and who can provide the predictability and daily routine that help Bradley feel safe will likely meet his needs best. Clear, consistent rules, expectations, limits, and consequences will be important in helping him do well. It will be important for Bradley to have some level of contact with his birth mother. He worries about her and needs to know she is okay.

Subsidy and Purchase of Service may be available.

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