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Legally free, BRITTNEY (5/96) has a multitude of interests. She loves swimming, horses, playing soccer and basketball, dressing her Barbies, and watching movies. Some of her favorite foods are pizza and spaghetti.

Currently, Brittney is doing well in a residential center where she is being encouraged to just be a kid. The skill and nurturing of the experienced staff and counselors are helping Brittney to begin to open up. She has learned better means of communicating and understands that her skills are helping her obtain meaningful relationships with peers and adults. She is no longer acting on her fears and worries; she has learned to use words instead.

While Brittney says she doesn’t like school that may be due to the topsy-turvy way her life has unfolded since coming into foster care. She actually has taken on a leadership role in school, which is reported by her teachers. Brittany does better in a smaller school setting. Brittany is behind in her academics, but an Individual Education Plan (IEP) is in place to assist her with her deficits in school. Brittany will probably always need the extra support from an IEP to get her through grade levels and through school.

Prior to coming into foster care in November 2003, Brittney’s life was chaotic. Multiple placements, changes in school and caregivers have further exacerbated her feelings of loss, abandonment, difficulty trusting adults, and anger. She, at times, struggles with feelings of anger and frustration. When she is angry, she can become unsafe towards herself and toward others. Brittany has really come around in treatment and has made leaps and bounds with recognizing her triggers and she has become a girl who know expresses her angers and frustrations with words more. Changes of any kind in her life continue to be stressful for her. Counseling will likely need to be part of her on-going support system for the foreseeable future.

Brittney would especially love to have a prospective adoptive family waiting for her when she graduates from her residential center. She has told her worker that she wants parents who will want to do lots of things with her, “like active parents who are nice and fun.” She hopes that they will be understanding and be able to give her the time and space she will need to build a relationship with them. She acknowledges that she also needs space at time to cool off when, “I get mad.” Most of all, Brittney says that she wants parent(s) who will not give up on her. If they have kids, she would like for them to be close to her age.

Brittney has significant relationships with her siblings, and she needs to be able to nurture and maintain these important connections. Her sister Stephanie is being featured at C6920.


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