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Legally free, ANGEL (7/96) is an amazing 11-year-old African American girl with plenty of spunk and personality. Her favorite activities include swimming, gymnastics, dancing and singing. Angel has shown her considerable talent by choreographing a dance performance with her peers for a talent show at school. The audience thought her performance was spectacular and full of energy. Angel exudes a confidence that allows her to express her needs, especially when it comes to her future.

When with her peers Angel makes friends easily and works at demonstrating positive friendship skills to help maintain these relationships; she continues growing in this area. Angel continues to work on getting through her feeling of past trauma. While painful for her to discuss, she is willing to put forth the effort to do so in her counseling. And she has a willing participant in various therapeutic venues, including individual and group counseling, yoga, girls’ power recreation therapy group, soccer skills recreation therapy group, and rock climbing recreation therapy group.

Angel is described as tender hearted. She will often ask what she can do to help when a peer is sad or upset. It is clear that Angel loves her family and eagerly looks forward to monthly visits with her brothers and her grandmother and great aunt. Her grandma, who lives out of state, keeps in contact with Angel through phone calls and some visits when she is in this area.

Angel is now in a fifth-grade, self-contained classroom program for the 2007-2008 school year. That program helps her stay on-task and complete her assignments. Angel admits that school is not her favorite part of the day but is diligent in meeting her goals.

While Angel clearly wants to live near her brothers, she has become accepting of being adopted and having a permanent home. She is eager to move forward with her life and is working hard to achieve her goals.

It will be important for Angel’s adoptive parent(s) to take the time to understand her history and experiences, so that they can help her move forward in healthy ways. Angel will likely do best with a experienced and consistent family.

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