Daisy is a 12-year-old girl who is in good physical health and enjoys dancing, quilting and horseback riding. She would like to learn how to knit. Her favorite activities are crafting and shopping.

Daisy is in the sixth grade. She does well in school and would like to take music lessons. She is interested in the theater and is participating in her first school play this spring.

Daisy participates in weekly therapy to address issues of her history of losses and to learn to regulate her emotions. She has made great gains in being more her own person and strengthening her self-image. Yet when she experiences frustration, she withdraws and will act immaturely.

Therapy will help her in the transition to adoption, and the adoptive family will be expected to continue therapy for her, with possible family sessions to promote the new family connections.

Daisy would like a two-parent family who will nurture and accept her as their child. An experienced family which has patience to allow her personality and activity level to expand and become consistent is sought for her.

Maintaining contact with her three sisters and foster family will be important to Daisy, and parents will need to understand and provide opportunity for that contact.

Adoption subsidy is available for the most appropriate family. Daisy is one of the 155 children currently in Maine Department of Health and Human Services care who is 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 Daisy 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.”