Aaliyah has college goals

Aaliyah, 15, is an intelligent, kind and loving teenage girl of Cape Verdean and Lebanese descent. Her favorite activities include riding bikes and playing basketball and volleyball. Those who know her best describe her as responsible and ambitious. She often talks about wanting to go to college. Aaliyah is very creative and likes to make TikTok videos. She loves to watch movies, especially scary ones.

Aaliyah is incredibly smart and loves school and learning. This academic year, she received several awards for excellence in her academic performance and positive behaviors in class.

Legally freed for adoption, Aaliyah has the potential to thrive in a family that can provide her with emotional support and structure in her everyday life. Aaliyah should be placed with a mother and a father or two mothers, with or without other children in the home. Aaliyah will need to maintain contact with her birth parents per an Open Adoption Agreement, which calls for several in-person visits a year. In addition, she is very close with two of her brothers and it is important to her that these relationships continue.