c7488

Child's name: Rachell
Number: C7488
Birthdate: 3/94
State: Washington
Listed: July 2009

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RACHELL (3/94) enjoys doing arts and crafts and working with clay, as well as playing gamines on her Wii. Rachell is good with family pets. Participating in projects and tasks where her efforts are praised and encouraged help to boost Rachell’s self esteem. Some of the areas where she likes to help out are caring for the elderly and serving meals. While Rachell does not yet have the social skills to interact well in group activities like organized sports, she does like smaller, less structured activities. A favorite activity is singing. Legally free, Rachell came into foster care in August 2004.

In school, Rachell’s program is designed to have her participating in hands-on classes like art, cooking, and sewing, and such, where she does well. She also benefits from attending resource room for academic support.

Multiple placements in foster care have been hard on Rachell and have likely contributed to her social and academic delays. She longs to have a permanent family who will provide a safe, nurturing home for her. Her permanent family will need to be able to help her develop trust in others, while seeing that she has the therapeutic resource to deal with past trauma.

It will be an act of love and commitment for Rachell’s adoptive parent(s) to participate with her in family counseling during her transition into their home. It will also demonstrate to Rachell that her new folks value using such resources to help family members make behavioral changes and to deal with past hurts. It is likely that Rachell will need to have such resources available to her on an as-needed basis for the foreseeable future. Knowing that her adoptive family will support her and participate with her will help her to persevere in her treatment program.

Rachell’s worker is especially interested in hearing from single women who have lots of time and attention to parent and guide this emotionally young teenager. Rachell says that she would like to live in a rural area, but her worker feels she could do well in different settings as long as she has the structure, consistency, clear rules, expectations, and limits that help her feel secure, and nurturing, kind (yet firm!) parenting.

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