c5985

Child's name: Karina
Number: C5985
Birthdate: 2/93
State: Washington
Listed: 8/05, Updated 1/08

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Legally free, KARINA (2/93) is an interesting, loving, smart person who is very eager to find a family of her own. Like most teens she enjoys listening to music and playing video games and hanging out with her friends. Karina has made some significant gains in the past year and has become much more social. She has become better able to express her feelings and has become more health conscious and physically fit. Because of her very special relation with her grandmother, Karina needs to have an adoptive family that lives in Western Washington. Her worker is especially interested in hearing from families with two moms or a single mom family.

With the support of her counselor and her therapeutic foster parents Karina has made huge gains in her personal growth and has gained considerable awareness of herself, her needs, and what she needs to do to have the kind of family she wants and needs.

In school, Karina attends a regular education classroom where she does good work with the support of a 504 plan. She has benefited from having social and behavioral supports in the past. Karina will be in eighth grade for the 2007-2008 school year. While socially younger than her chronological age, Karina has been successful in making friends this year at her new school and has a peer-aged group of friends that is very important to her. Still, she will benefit from social skill building opportunities.

Karina significant relationship with her maternal grandmother that includes visits and overnight stays. This has been a positive and consistent relationship for both that should be maintained. Although unable to be a caregiver for her, Karina’s grandmother has been a consistent and positive part of her life and she has been respectful, cooperative and grateful to the families who have fostered Karina in the past. Karina’s grandmother has worked hard to be a part of Karina’s life and to help Karina get her needs met and would enjoy being a respite resource for her granddaughter’s adoptive family.

While Karina may do best in a two-parent family, her social worker does not want to miss out on hearing from those strong single moms who have lots of time to parent and who have good support systems of family and friends. Most of all Karina needs folks who are very nurturing and skilled, and who have a good grasp of how early neglect and abuse impact on a child’s sense of well being and development. While she would really like to be an only child, she could do well having younger siblings in the home.

Click here to view Karina's "A Family for Me" video clip created by WACAP

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