Jayden, 9, loves helping in kitchen

Jayden is a lovable girl of Caucasian descent. Wise beyond her 9 years, Jayden is in third grade and has an Individual Educational Plan to support her academic needs. She loves to help her foster mother in the kitchen. She also loves riding her bike, arts and crafts, and swimming. She does well with one-on-one attention. Jayden is loving and determined but also cautious of others.

Legally freed for adoption, Jayden will need one-on-one attention. This could be a twoparent family or a single parent family with no other children or much older children in the home. Jayden has older siblings in foster care and in adoptive families in Western Massachusetts with whom she will need to maintain contact.

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 at 617964-6273 or go to mareinc.org. The sooner you call, the sooner a waiting child will have “a permanent place to call home.”