Spring is an active 15-year-old girl with brown hair and sparkling brown eyes.

This teen is a true animal lover who has a wonderful ease with all types of animals.

Spring recently went to Planet Dog in Portland to film for WGME’s Thursday’s Child, where she helped groom an English sheep dog that showered her with kisses.

Spring has talked about being adopted by a family who has pets or lives on a farm. She loves to ride horses and would like to take lessons one day.

Spring loves to sing, listen to music, read books and play sports. She loves to go out to eat and is always up for a pupu platter at her favorite Chinese restaurant.

At school, Spring enjoys hanging out with friends and participating in cheerleading. She has a wonderful sense of humor, which helps her when she meets new people and begins to develop relationships. Spring has formed lasting friendships with her peers and adults in her life.

Spring is very interested in finding her “forever family.” She has talked about having a mother and a father, but also would thrive with a single mother. She would love to have siblings. Spring has maintained a close relationship with her older brother and wishes to continue contact with him after she is adopted.

The ideal family for Spring would be a family with two parents or a single mother, who would give her the love and support that she needs to continue making gains in her schooling and in different social settings.

Her family will need to provide structure, boundaries and supervision in order for her to feel safe and succeed in the family.

An adoption subsidy is available for the most appropriate family. Spring is one of the 214 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 Spring or other children available for adoption, please contact A Family for ME toll free at (877) 505-0545 or visit www.AFamilyFor

Me.org and see the Heart Gallery of photographs of some of the many children awaiting a “forever family.”