Travis, 11, is a creative, imaginative and engaging boy who thrives with affection, reassurance and praise from his caregivers.

He is eager to please and has many positive attributes that he brings to his interpersonal relationships. Travis will need the insight and support of his adoptive family to help him reach his full potential in these types of relationships.

Travis states that he wants a “forever family” and feels it is necessary that this family is able to care for him in a well-structured environment to help him feel safe and loved. While he would prefer to be the only child in his adoptive family, Travis has acknowledged that “one other sibling would be OK.”

As he really enjoys being around animals, Travis would like his new family to have a dog or cat.

It will be important for Travis’ adoptive family to help him in developing and maintaining appropriate boundaries in the community, as he sometimes forgets and will talk to or even try to hug strangers.

Now in the sixth grade, Travis receives special education services and is not mainstreamed because of his educational needs.

Travis has contact with some members of his biological family, and it is important for him to maintain his visitation schedule. He sees his maternal grandmother once a month and his maternal great-grandmother about once every six months, and also receives occasional phone calls, cards and presents. He has brief visits with his sister at his maternal grandmother’s home two times per year.

Travis would be most successful in a family with two parents who are equally vested and provide predictable and consistent limits.

Travis is one of 218 Maine children now in the care of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services who are seeking an adoptive family. For more information about Travis or other children available for adoption, contact A Family for ME at 1-877-505-0545 or visit www.afamilyforme.org.

Based in Gardiner, A Family for ME is a nonprofit program that works in collaboration with Maine DHHS to find foster and adoptive families for Maine children in care.