A handsome, friendly boy with brown hair, blue eyes and freckles, Kevin has a captivating smile that can warm hearts. He enjoys singing, dancing and playing computer games. Those who know 12-year-old Kevin best describe him as smart, creative and funny, with an active imagination.

Fond of therapeutic horseback riding, skateboarding, in-line skating and riding BMX bikes, Kevin enjoys peer interactions with Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, and he likes to play Dungeons and Dragons and Nintendo games.

Kevin recently was reunited with a birth sister who also is in the care of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. Kevin’s case worker and others who work with him prefer that this contact continue.

Kevin has been in Maine DHHS care since June 1999. He has been diagnosed with cone rod dystrophy, an eye disease that can lead to blindness.

Despite his visual impairment, Kevin is energetic and inquisitive and enjoys playing basketball and riding his bicycle. He is very eager to learn and uses closed-circuit television equipment at school to assist him academically. He also has a one-on-one educational technician to assist him academically, behaviorally and socially.

Kevin participates in individual and group therapy to address his diagnoses, behaviors and past challenges.

Kevin needs a family that can assure him that he will be loved, nurtured and kept safe. His adoptive family also will need to be able to provide him with a lot of attention and support, advocating for services to assist him with his needs. A family with no other children or older children would be preferred.

Subsidy may be available to the most appropriate family.

Kevin is one of 220 Maine children in Maine DHHS care seeking an adoptive family. For information about Kevin 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.