Julia, 10, is creative, intelligent, and stylish

Sunday’s Child is a weekly column featuring a child currently in foster care awaiting adoption.

Julia is a creative, fashionable, and energetic ten-year-old girl of Caucasian descent. Those who know her describe her as resilient and as having a big heart. Julia loves to listen to music and often spends her free time listening to her favorite songs. She also enjoys dancing and singing, and has even written songs about her own life experiences.

Julia is intelligent and perceptive, and enjoys interacting with adults. She is bilingual, having learned Spanish in a previous foster home and enjoys speaking Spanish whenever she has the opportunity. Julia is currently in the 6th grade and loves going to school. She has positive peer relationships and makes friends easily. Julia has made great progress in therapy, and is able to express insight into her feelings, experiences and needs. During periods of instability, Julia has benefited from a combination of nurturing love and therapeutic interventions.

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Legally freed for adoption, Julia will do best in a loving two-parent family, with or without children. An ideal family will provide Julia with emotional support, structure, and clear expectations. A family should be open to contact with Julia’s birth parents in Massachusetts. Julia is close with her paternal grandmother and she has two siblings with whom she speaks to regularly on the phone. These relationships should be maintained.

Who can adopt?

Can you provide the guidance, love, and stability that a child needs? If you’re at least 18 years old, have a stable source of income, and room in your heart, you may be a perfect match to adopt a waiting child. Adoptive parents can be single, married, or partnered; experienced or not; renters or homeowners; LGBTQ singles and couples.

The process to adopt a child from foster care requires training, interviews, and home visits to determine if adoption is right for you, and if so, to help connect you with a child or sibling group that your family will be a good match for.

To learn more about adoption from foster care, call the Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange (MARE) at 617-54-ADOPT (617-542-3678) or visit www.mareinc.org. The sooner you call, the sooner a waiting child will have “a permanent place to call home.”