Photolisting Profile for Didi

Didi is a 5-year-old girl from Washington who is hoping to be adopted.

Addides, who is fondly known as Didi, and Lorenzo, whose nickname is Reno, need to grow up together in the same family. Reno has always been a loving, big brother to Didi, and she has a strong bond with him.

She appears to be a happy girl thriving on one on one attention from significant adults in her life. While she currently engages mostly in parallel play, she is in the process of developing her social and emotional skills. Didi is a fan of the Disney Channel, and especially anything to do with Hannah Montana and Disney’s various princesses.

Gentle and quiet Reno is a sensitive boy who continues to respond very well to safe, nurturing foster care that provides a very predictable daily routine. In such homes, he has been able to feel safe and to form trusting relationships with two different sets of foster parents. This shy, caring boy has made friends among his classmates and peers and is well like by his teachers, who see has as a bright child with potential.

Since entering foster care, Didi has shown a great deal of potential when given appropriate resources to overcome many of the effects of the early neglect she experienced. She is doing especially well in her current foster home where there is structure, a predictable, consistent daily routine, and clear rules, expectations, and limits. Another plus is that she does not have to compete for parental time and attention.

Reno has grown by leaps and bounds since coming into foster care with the support of foster parents and therapeutic supports.

Having adoptive parents who understand how early neglect and trauma and impact a child’s sense of well being, sense of safety, and development will be very important. Didi needs parents able and willing to participate with her in a wraparound service program which includes various therapeutic resources and preschool. Reno needs parents able to maintain a nurturing, predictable environment where he can feel safe and secure.

Photo(s) Courtesy of www.afamilyforeverychild.org

Siblings

Reno (11)