Charisma is a smart and resilient foster youth. She is a great role model to the 2 younger foster youth that share her foster home, as well as a huge help to her single foster mother who has physical disabilities and is in a wheelchair. Though Charisma faces many physical ailments of her own, such as a heart condition, she remains very determined to obtain straight A's in school and help others when she can. She wants to obtain a psychology degree in the future to help other youth like herself who have faced adversity and been though trauma. Charisma loves to journal and write poetry. She likes to take care of the household pets, which includes 2 dogs and 2 cats.