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JESSIE (5/96) has strengths for his adoptive folks to encourage and build upon. He is inquisitive and interested in learning. His intelligence and verbal skills are good. He also has good motor skills and enjoys sports, such as football and baseball. Jessie likes riding his bike and participating in other outdoor activities, too, and has had fun taking Karate lessons. Jessie enjoys being around others, especially caring, attentive adults. Jesse’s interest in cars has him learning toward being a mechanic when he grows up, although he might also like to pursue science. Some other pastimes he likes are playing with small model cars, playing air hockey and other games, and watching movies. There is a very charming side to his personality. Legally free, Jessie came into foster care in March 2002.

Because Jessie’s strengths can too easily get overshadowed by his emotional and behavioral challenges, he is currently living at an out-of-state group treatment program, where he has the structure, supervision, clear rules, limits, and firm consequences that he help him stay on track, as well as emotional safety from the experienced child care staff and counselors who interact with him daily. The focus is on helping him strengthen his boundaries and incorporate healthy personal safety skills in his everyday life, and to deal with other residual effects of past trauma from his early years. Jesse is also working on developing behavioral strategies and tools to help him express feeling of anger and frustration in more appropriate ways.

Jesse will, though, need to have adoptive parents willing to participate with him in family counseling during his transition into is adoptive home. That will be an important way for his new folks to show their love and commitment to him, and will also demonstrate to Jessie that they value using such resources to assist family members in growing and developing emotionally, socially, and behaviorally. It is likely that Jesse will need to have therapeutic supports in place for the foreseeable future. The staff at his treatment program will make a recommendation at the time that Jessie is ready to graduate about whether or not wrap-around services should be in place for at least a few years or so.

For the 2009-2010 school year will be in seventh grade, where he will like do satisfactory work. He is likely capable of greater success, once he has the safety and security of a permanent family and home.

Jesse is struggling has anxiety about finding a family who will claim him as their own. He fears being left behind and of being hurt both emotionally and physically again.

His social worker is especially interested in hearing from two-parent families, but does not want to miss out on hearing from those exceptional single moms and dads who have strong support from family, friends, and community resources. Jesse really needs to be an only child or the youngest of one or two siblings who are at least 16 years old. An active family willing to involve Jesse in outdoor and sports activities would meet his needs best.


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