Dillon, 11, is an active boy who loves to play outside. He likes in-line skating, skateboarding, riding a bike, swimming and playing most sports. Dillon also enjoys drawing and making crafts.

Dillon would like adoptive parents who spend time with him and tell him jokes.

Dillon 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 structured academic program that offers 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 needs continuing therapy to help him manage his emotions and process 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.

An adoption subsidy is available for the most appropriate family. Dillon is one of the 161 children currently in Maine Department of Health and Human Services care who are seeking an adoptive family.

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.

For more information about Dillon or other children available for adoption, 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.”