c6015

Child's name: Samantha
Number: C6015
Birthdate: 5/96
State: Washington
Listed: 9/05, Updated 6/07

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Energetic, friendly, and fun, SAMANTHA (5/96) is a cutie with big brown eyes and straight brown hair. A creative young lady with a flare for drama, she loves writing, directing and being the heroine in her own creations. Adults are readily drawn to Samantha when they first meet her. Some of Samantha’s favorite foods are peanut butter and cereals.

In school, Samantha is mainstreamed but has special supports in place to help her focus and stay on task, and to increase her social development. Having patient, attentive adults nearby to guide, support, and redirect her is essential to helping her stay on track. Samantha is currently working at about a second grade level in math, reading, and writing.

Past trauma has had a significant impact on Samantha’s psychological, emotional, and behavioral well being, and mental health therapy has been an important part of her routine support system since coming into foster care in mid 2003. Over the past couple of years, with the help of individual and group therapies, Samantha has begun to deal with her past experiences and losses, and has made important progress. Such structured therapeutic intervention will need to be part of her support system for the foreseeable future. She has to have highly stable, consistent, predictable environments at school and at home to help her manage her daily routine in such a way as to be able to have some sense of security and safety. Samantha is benefiting from medication supports as well.

Samantha will be counting on her adoptive folk(s) to help her maintain relationships with some significant people in her life. Samantha’s former foster mother believes Samantha has a lot of strengths and knows that with the right home environment she will thrive. She adores Samantha and would very much like to remain in an “aunt” role in her life and will be a support system to Samantha and her adoptive family. Samantha would also like to remain in contact with her two sisters and their adoptive family in central Washington.

Samantha does best in smaller social settings and wide open spaces. Because the violence she witnessed was perpetrated by adult men, Samantha must have a very stable, emotionally strong, down-to-earth mother as a primary parent. Although Samantha’s social worker especially wants to hear from couples, she doesn’t want to miss out on hearing from single moms with strong support systems of family, friends, and community resources, who may be interested in learning more about parenting Samantha. Samantha would do best in a home with other children, her worker would especially like to hear from families who have daughters who are older and can be strong role models for Samantha.

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