Editor’s Note: The Bangor Daily News is rerunning this column as a family still is needed for this child.

Travis, 12, 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 such 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.”

Travis would like his new family to have a dog or cat as he greatly enjoys being around animals.

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 try to hug strangers.

Now in middle school, Travis receives special education services and because of his educational needs is not mainstreamed.

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

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

Travis is one of 201 Maine children now in the care of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services care who is 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.