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ALBERT (8/95) is very connected to his heritage and loves joining in ceremonies featuring Tglingit/Haida dancers. Albert has many interests, and some of his other favorite activities are fishing, drawing (he’s talented, too!), collecting football and basketball cards, plying video games, and riding his bike. Albert does an “awesome job” interacting with peers, according to his worker and shows leadership skills.

Now in fifth grade, Albert is doing well in social studies and subjects other than math, reading, and spelling. He has academic supports in the classroom for those subject. He also has behavioral supports to assist him, which include a pass to go to the resource room if he needs to have to take some time out.

Albert, who first came into foster care in May 1998, came back into care most recently in July 2004. While Albert has difficulty trusting adults to truly be there for him, he does have connections and relationships with respite and treatment providers and other adults who have been significant in his life.

Albert is currently receiving community based mental health services for counseling and crisis intervention, skill building, medication management, and case management.

His state social worker believes that a two parent family or a single dad who has a strong system of support will likely meet Albert’s needs best. She is particularly interested in hearing from folk(s) who have meaningful experience with children who have suffered neglect and trauma during their early years. Being willing to participate with Albert in family counseling during his transition into his new family would be a wonderful way for his adoptive parents to claim him as their own and to show heir commitment to him. It would also be helpful for Albert’s adoptive parent(s) to have a good grasp of the residual effects of prenatal exposure to alcohol and drugs.

Folks who truly enjoy teenagers and who want the opportunity to nurture and guide a terrific boy through his adolescence and into adulthood are needed.


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