c6565

Child's name: Cha'uri
Number: C6565
Birthdate: 12/94
State: Oregon
Listed: 3/07, Updated 4/07

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CHA’URI (12/94), known as “Charm” by school friends, is a skilled baton twirler who also loves to play basketball, football, soccer, and baseball. She loves to sing and wants to take lessons to learn how to hip hop, jazz, tap and ballroom dance. Cha’uri already knows how to dance a little salsa. A social butterfly, this preteen likes to hang out with her friends at the mall and the movies.

Cha’uri has thought about what she wants and needs in an adoptive family. She says. “I want a kind, loving, caring family that treats me like I’m their own daughter that has lived there all my life. They will let me have animals, join sports, and take music lessons.” Some traits that Cha’uri wants in her new parents would be the ability to listen to kids and to have a good sense of humor. “I’m hoping to have a mom and a dad or just a mom. I’d like to have older siblings and/or younger siblings, but not a sister or brother that is the same age. I’m looking forward to having an older sister who could give good advice and that I can talk to about anything, for example school, social problems and how to deal with those things. I would like to still be able to see my biological family, as they are very important to me. I promise to follow the rules and be a new part of your family.”

Cha’uri has extended family and benefits from regular contact with them. Her younger siblings (8 year old sister and 11 year old brother) are in a relative placement. It is vital that she maintains contact with them through visits and phone contact.

Cha’uri came into foster care in 1999. With the support of intensive counseling, therapeutic foster care, and medication therapy, Cha’uri has become better able to verbalize her feelings and to express them in appropriate ways.

She is eager for an adoptive family, but needs a parent that is patient, calm and amenable to providing limited choices instead of rigid orders. Cha’uri has been doing a very good job in how she responds to expectations within a family environment. She is motivated to work on her interpersonal relationships and the challenges that come with transitioning into a new home. Until this school year, Cha’uri has done well in the school environment and has been a good student. The transition in middle school, however, has brought on some new challenges, and she is having a hard time managing her homework on her own.

While Cha’uri is okay socially with her friends, she tends to feel competitive with other children in a family, especially those who are close to her own age.

Cha’uri is a very charming girl who is ready for an adoptive family. She is eager for the chance to have a stable home to grow up in. It would be ideal to move her out of the therapeutic foster home directly into a potential adoptive home in early 2007.

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