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Click here for the 2010 Missouri Adoption Heart Gallery Program Booklet
 
The Heart Gallery was founded by the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department in 2001 as a unique way to help children in foster care who are waiting for adoptive families step from the shadows into the light. Stirring portraits, which reveal the children's amazing spirits and individuality, have helped many find permanent, loving homes.

The Missouri Adoption Exchange Established in 1983, The Adoption Exchange has been making the connection between adoptive families and children with special needs. The Adoption Exchange recruits families for our country's most vulnerable children who currently wait in the foster care system. For twenty-seven years, the organization has helped find families for more than 5,500 children and offered hope for a better life to some of our nation's most at risk youth.

Executive Director speaks at event National Adoption Exchange Executive Director Dixie Davis spoke at the opening of the 2006 Heart Gallery in Jefferson City. "Thousands of Missouri families open their hearts and homes each year to foster children. Although more than 60 percent of the children adopted in Missouri find permanency with their foster parents, others are adopted through recruitment efforts just like this one, Davis said. In other Heart Galleries, new adoptive parents have spoken of the way the photo of a particular child reaches out to them and causes them to know this child is meant to be a part of their family. That is what the Heart Gallery is all about.

Missouri Heart Gallery Results

  • Over 180 children have been placed with their forever families since 2006.
  • 272 children are featured in the gallery in 202 images.

By the numbers . . . The State of Missouri has approximately 1,400 children waiting for an adoption placement.

Age
%
0-1 year 5%
1-5 years 25%
6-10 years 20%
11-15 years 28%
16-18 years 18%
over 18 years 4%

(Bolded percentages are the age groups that we are targeting because this is the age group that's harder to place).

Heart Gallery Opens at the Crowne Center in Kansas City!Please join us on April 30th at the Crowne Center in Kansas City for the grand opening of the 2010 Missouri Adoption Heart Gallery.

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