Photolisting Profile for Lashane

Lashane is a 14-year-old girl from Virginia who is hoping to be adopted.

If the spotlight is on, you can expect Lashane to be in it! She is a Bi-Racial teen who loves being the center of attention. Lashane can be described as outspoken and likeable. She is high spirited and willing to stand up for herself and others. She enjoys sports like basketball and swimming, and she would like to run track. She has a “girlie” side too, especially when it comes to doing her hair. Lashane likes school. Even though she sometimes needs help staying on task while there, her grades are mostly average to above average. She wants to be adopted into a two parent African American family with at least one older child in the home. She will benefit from having role models that will provide a lot of one on one support. Lashane has siblings she has been separated from since she was five years old. She hopes her new family will support and encourage contact with her siblings so she can preserve these connections to her birth family. Lashane has the potential to be successful in whatever she wants to do; she just needs guidance from a loving, patient family willing to work through her challenges and see her for the special individual she is.