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What is the Heart Gallery?
The Heart Gallery is a traveling photographic and audio exhibit created to find forever families for children in foster care.
Now, in its twentieth year, the Heart Gallery model is being replicated in many communities across the country. Although many of our children were removed from abusive and neglectful situations, they still have hope. They love to laugh, to learn, and to be with their friends. Most of all, they dream of finding a forever family to be their own.
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Since August 2008, Heart Gallery of Florida has featured more than 100 individual heart galleries and has helped 100s of kids find forever families
How it works?
The idea for the Heart Gallery project started as a means to raise awareness about adoption and find homes for older children and sibling groups in protective custody with the New Mexico Children, Youth & Families Department (CYFD).
The project was implemented by CYFD recruiter Diane Granito when she was hired as a grassroots recruiter for Santa Fe and eight other New Mexico counties. She developed the idea from photographer (and adoptive mother)
No Child is
Unadoptable
Every five years, the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption (started by the famous founder of Wendy’s Restaurants) sponsors a study of the attitudes of Americans toward adoption. Over the past two decades, more Americans have become aware that kids of all ages need families because of the efforts of many government and non-government agencies. This information, that Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption commissioned in partnership with The Harris Poll, can be found here:
Among the facts uncovered in the February 2022 study is that 67% of Americans understand that no child is unadoptable; that is 9% more than in 2017. Hundreds of other facts about how American families think and view adoption are covered in this comprehensive study. If you find it useful please consider supporting Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption’s continuing effort. Heart Gallery of America is a partner in the cause.
