Jordan is an active 7-year-old boy. He likes the outdoors and loves to catch bugs, go on nature walks and go fishing. Jordan also enjoys playing with trucks and dinosaurs.

He has a good imagination and is great at creative play. He enjoys crafts and creativity projects. Jordan has a strong interest and love of music. He practices singing to country music so that he can be a famous country singer when he grows up. He says that his second career choice is to be a state trooper.

Jordan has been in foster care since 2003. He has two siblings. They all share strong connections with each other, and contact between the siblings after adoption is essential to their well-being.

Jordan also has a strong bond with his paternal grandmother, who is not in a position to adopt Jordan or his siblings. Ongoing contact between Jordan and his grandmother also is essential.

Jordan will benefit from adoptive parents who help him learn to identify and express his feelings. Jordan is eager to join a family, but attaching to a new family also feels very risky to him.

Jordan will benefit from matching with a nurturing, patient, active family that will be sensitive to his emotional needs and willing to make a commitment to him and help him learn to trust that it is safe to be part of a family.

Families with experience in understanding feelings of grief and loss, who have previous parenting experience, are flexible in their approach to limit setting, and are open to receiving outside support to assist them with understanding Jordan’s emotional needs will be considered as a potential adoptive resource.

Jordan is one of 179 children in the care of the state Department of Health and Human Services who are seeking an adoptive family.

Based in Gardiner, A Family for ME is a nonprofit program that works in collaboration with DHHS to find foster and adoptive families for Maine children in care. Children in DHHS care who are available for adoption range in age from infancy to 18.

A Family For ME’s primary focus is to find families for children ages 5 to 18. Most available for adoption are 5 or older and many are in sibling groups.

For information about Jordan or other children available for adoption, please contact A Family for ME toll free at (877) 505-0545 or visit www.AFamilyForMe.org and see the Heart Gallery of photographs of some of the many children awaiting a “forever family.”