Blake and Brauk
Brauk and Blake are fun-loving siblings of Caucasian descent. Brauk, eleven-years-old, is a pleasant and polite boy with a good sense of humor. He is the type of child who likes to know what’s going on around him and is very social. Brauk enjoys playing sports, and likes to be active and be outside. Brauk also really loves to go to church. He is fascinated by God, religion and gospel music. In school Brauk is well liked by his teachers and peers but needs to put forth more effort into academics to get the results he wants. At times he does need things explained to him a couple of times in order to completely process them.
Blake is a social ten-year-old boy who likes to stay busy and active. He is even tempered and relates well to adults and peers. Blake can be shy when he first meets someone but once he gets to know you he really opens up. Blake is a natural athlete who loves all sports and is good at them. He plays on a street hockey team and because of his skill level he was moved up a level to play with older children. His dream is to be a professional hockey player when he grows up. Blake does well in school and is liked by teachers and peers. He has many friends.
Legally freed for adoption, Brauk and Blake request to live in a home together with a mother and a father figure. Their social worker is open to other children being in the home. A pre-adoptive family should be willing to follow an Open Adoption Agreement with the birth family, which includes two visits a year, and letters and pictures once a year. An ideal family should commit to maintaining contact with Brauk and Blake’s two biological sisters who are placed together in another home in Massachusetts.
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 (MARE) at 617-54-ADOPT (617-542-3678) or visit www.mareinc.org. The sooner you call, the sooner a waiting child will have “a permanent place to call HOME.”
