Photolisting Profile for Laquesha

Laquesha is a 17-year-old girl from North Carolina who is hoping to be adopted.

Laquesha is a sweet, happy girl with a delightful personality. She is charming, fun loving, and willing to learn new things. Laquesha gets along well with others, particularly younger children, to whom she likes being a role model. She is also very good with pets. Laquesha takes pride in her appearance and worked hard to drop quite a bit of weight. She enjoys swimming, going shopping at the mall, and she would like to try cheerleading. Laquesha attends school on the campus where she lives. Staying awake and on task are a challenge, so prompts and individual attention are helpful. Laquesha makes every effort to please her teacher and does the best she can with schoolwork. She is working on positive social skills and how to develop and maintain better peer relationships. Laquesha needs to utilize acceptable methods of expressing her feelings. Laquesha would like to be adopted by a family with younger children so she can be a good role model for them. She has mentioned that she would like a family that is good, kind, friendly, and someone she can talk to. An adoptive family for Laquesha will need to set and maintain clear guidelines and boundaries. Structure, stability and consistency go hand-in-hand with the love, support and nurturing this lovely young woman deserves. Laquesha would like to maintain contact with her siblings, who have been adopted separately.