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Highly likeable, ANGEL (7/96) is an amazing African American young teen with plenty of spunk and personality. Her favorite activities include swimming, gymnastics, dancing and singing. Angel showed her considerable talent in 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 has been part of a dance troupe that performs African dance for the public. She has loved it for several reasons – one being that she got paid! Angel exudes a confidence that allows her to express her needs, especially when it comes to her future.

Angel makes friends easily and works at demonstrating positive friendship skills to help maintain her peer relationships; she continues growing in this area. The past trauma she has experienced is painful for her to discuss, but she is willing to put forth the effort to do so in her individual and group therapy sessions. Angel has also benefited from her group participation to learn about nutrition and diabetes prevention, and to help her to develop tools and strategies to help her express her anger in appropriate way, learn personal safety skills, deal with feelings of grief. Participating in yoga, a girls’ power recreational therapy group, soccer skills recreational therapy group, and rock climbing recreational therapy group have all been helpful to her.

Legally free, 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, who will be in an eighth-grade, behavioral classroom program for the 2009-2010 school year, was moved to a new school during the middle of the 2008-2009 school year to access teachers with more experience. While she settled in well at first, the news that the school was to close at the end of the school year and a move to a new foster home ultimately overwhelmed her. While Angel has been dealing with the residual effects unevenly, it is expected that over the summer she will be able to drawn on her positive inner resources and deal successfully with her new home and another new school.

Angel has been very clear that she wants to live near her brothers. She really wants a permanent home and a family that she will be able to count on.

It will be important for Angel’s adoptive parents 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 sage and consistent family which has experience with children who have emotional and behavioral special needs.


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