Dillon is a very active boy who loves to play outside. He likes to in-line skate, skateboard, ride his bike, swim and play just about any sport. He usually is up for just about anything and enjoys being active.

Interested in drawing and making crafts, Dillon would like an adoptive family that is active and parents who spend time with him and tell him jokes.

Dillon, 11, came into the care of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services in August 2002 along with four half-siblings. Due to each child’s needs, none of the children are placed together.

Dillon has a learned pattern of aggression and a low frustration tolerance. These factors affect him at home and at school, and currently he is in a day treatment program for school.

Dillon does best in a very structured academic instruction program that offers him a significant amount of positive reinforcement on a constant basis. He has most success in situations with few people and minimal distraction.

Now learning how to incorporate soothing sensory strategies into his daily routine in order to decrease his stress level, Dillon will need intensive ongoing therapy to help him manage his emotions and in processing the challenges of his past.

Dillon does best when his environment is structured and predictable. He is able to follow routine hygiene tasks with reminders and can be compliant and agreeable.

Those who work closely with Dillon believe he will be most successful with an experienced, two-parent family that will remain committed to him.

Dillon also will require a family that can provide him with structure and nurturing, and would be best-suited as the youngest child in any family.

Dillon is one of 220 Maine children in Maine DHHS care who are seeking an adoptive family. For more information about Dillon or other children available for adoption, please contact A Family for ME at (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.