If you are interested in providing a home for any of these children, please call 203-389-5599, ext. 105 or toll-free in CT 866-389-5599.

Meet AJ

AJ is an active 12 year old with a passion for sports. He loves to play and watch just about any sport you can think of, especially football and baseball. He considers himself an “average kid” that enjoys computers and electronic games, biking, and science fiction.  AJ enjoys reading and journalism and likes to watch movies that make him think. 

He does well with hands-on activities as he is creative and likes to build things. AJ likes school and is in honors math.  He considers manners important and for that reason is often seen helping others. AJ’s teachers and caregivers report that he is a “likeable guy.”  Given that he is smart and personable adults can’t help but enjoy his company. 

AJ has experienced numerous losses in his life, and is slow to warm up to people.  It’s a challenge for AJ to share his feelings with people and he does not seek physical affection.  As a result of this, he needs a family who will give him time to get to know them, however at the same time set firm guidelines and structure.  AJ is free for adoption and needs an adoptive home that can offer him stability and allow him contact with some of the important people from his past.  The best family setting for him would be a home where he is an only child or a family where the siblings will be older than him.  Although AJ would thrive in a two-parent home, he can also succeed in single parent home with someone that shares his passion for sports.

AJ needs clear boundaries and structure, but at the same time understanding and support in order for him to foster his self-esteem and thrive socially. Given AJ’s zest for learning it is important that he enters in to a family that values education and will challenge and support his academic needs. In order to foster his successes in school AJ will benefit from parents that will follow-up daily with his assignments and maintain contact with his teachers.

Meet Tommy

Tommy is a seven-year old boy who loves to be outside and ride his bicycle.  He likes to play with his trucks and he really loves to go to school.  Tommy has a lot of medical issues; he spent most of his life in a hospital.  Tommy has a shunt and a feeding tube.  He has a cleft palate and he also has asthma.  Tommy wears two hearing aids.  With the hearing aids he hears well.  Tommy has a lot of developmental delays.  He is learning to talk; though sometimes it’s difficult to understand him.  He has a little computer with pictures in it that help him show people what he means.  He is very good at using that computer.

Tommy currently lives in a group home for children with special medical needs.  He has made progress in all areas of his development.  The staff in the group home loves him; they feel that he has a lot of potential for learning and developing.  Tommy thrives on attention from adults and gets along well with other children.  Tommy’s mother occasionally comes to see him but she cannot take care of him.  Tommy needs a family to grow up in.  The family would have to be willing to learn to take care of Tommy’s medical needs and would need to  handle the uncertainty of not knowing how much he is going to be able to progress.  In the mean time, they can enjoy him and love him!