Child Profiles
Yesenia
Yesenia is a fun-loving, energetic 14-year-old. Even in only brief interactions, it’s obvious she has an impressive zest for life and adventure. She likes shopping and going to the mall, but shuns the “girly girl” label. Yessie, as she likes to be called, is passionate about staying active, with some of her favorite activities being skateboarding and biking. She explains that the sensation of supreme focus she experiences while skateboarding is unlike any other. And she’s not afraid to go to the skate park even when she’s the only girl riding!
Yesenia comes off as being quite mature for her age, as she has learned a lot from a tumultuous past. Since she has been in multiple placements, she now feels tired of moving around, not keeping friendships and not having a permanent family to call her own. There have been times where Yesenia has veered away from the family environment by pushing boundaries, but she now recognizes that a forever family is the one thing she’d like more than anything else. She feels strongly that she wants a family that is ready to judge her not by her past, but by the person she is today. Yesenia has set clear goals for herself and craves the support and structure necessary to achieve them. Very self-aware, Yessie recognizes and identifies her tendency to fall in with “the wrong crowd” and she’d like a family that is devoted to keeping her on the right track.
Yesenia does very well in school and enjoys learning. She has dreams of some day becoming an attorney. Yesenia has a determined spirit and an absolutely infectious laugh. She’s very adept at making the best of situations and has a way of lifting the moods of all those around her. Yesenia has learned a lot about herself in her past few months at Mingus Mountain Academy. She now feels ready and equipped to return to the Phoenix area and, more than anything, ready to join a family!
For more information on Yesenia or for general information on adoption and foster care opportunities, please call AASK at (602) 930-4900.
