Adoptions finalized during annual Adoption Day celebration in the District.

Dalontae Wilkinson knows he wants to go to college in California. One day, he said, he will be an actor, or maybe he will be a police officer. He also envisions himself volunteering to care for the elderly and disabled.

The 15-year-old has many dreams that he said he is more likely to realize now that he has a family.

Dalontae was adopted after 10 years in the foster-care system. He lived in several homes, wasn’t doing well in school and almost gave up hope of finding a family.

“It is a very big day for me,” the tall boy, dressed in a suit and tie, told a crowd in the third-floor atrium of the District’s Moultrie Courthouse Saturday morning. “This is my father,” he said, proudly extending his arm around Kevin Wilkinson.