A Child is Waiting: Mollie Loves Helping Others

A child is waiting: Mollie loves helping others

By Honey Murray, for Digital First Media

Loves kids and teaching

“I’m funny, I love kids and…I’m open-hearted,” Mollie says as she smiles and tosses a frisbee to the interviewer on her M.A.R.E. (Michigan Adoption Resource Exchange) video. “I like babysitting and teaching little children,” she adds. “I’d like to go to Western Michigan University and be a teacher or a pediatrician.”

“Mollie is smart and insightful,” her adoption worker says. “She’s helpful and has a good heart. At her community school, she was a peer mentor for fellow students who had developmental delays. She’s also worked in the children’s nursery at her church.”

Big part of her life

Mollie’s Christian faith is very important to her. She enjoys attending church, participating in its youth group and singing in the choir.

“I like to volunteer with my youth group,” Mollie says, “sometimes at homeless shelters. I also went on a volunteer mission trip to South Dakota.”

Member of the choir

Mollie loves to swim and hang out with her high school friends, going to movies, watching the Disney Channel, having sleepovers. She enjoys walking for exercise and writing in her journal. Her favorite school subject is choir.

“Another area Mollie enjoys is fashion,” her worker says. “She takes pride in her appearance and keeps up with the latest trends.”

Wanted: A big, happy family – with a dog

Seventeen-year-old Mollie hopes to be adopted by a “forever family” before she ages out of the foster care system.

Her adoption workers say the ideal family must be able to give her the attention she needs to thrive at home and in school, making sure she continues to receive the services that will help her monitor her health and function at her best, and that they can help promote a healthy lifestyle and provide positive attention.

“The kind of family I’m looking for is a mom and a dad,” Mollie says, “and little siblings and one or two big siblings: a supportive, happy family, with no arguing. Oh! I love horses, and I’d like to have dogs.”

Paris or a picnic

Mollie grins as she talks about the things she’d like to do with her family.

“I’d like to go to Paris or New York, go swimming, go shopping, have picnics, go camping in a park, or just hang out.”

What does Mollie want people to know about her?

“The best thing about me is I laugh and smile, I love people – and I’m still surviving.”

For more information, contact Orchard’s Children’s Services of Southfield at 855-694-7301 or visit www.orchards.org.