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-five years, the organization has helped find families for more than 5,170 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. | ||||||||||||||
2008 Missouri Heart Gallery Results
2007 Missouri Heart Gallery Results
| By the numbers . . . The State of Missouri has approximately 1,400 children waiting for an adoption placement.
(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 Crown Center in Kansas City!Please join us on May 2nd at the Crown Center in Kansas City for the grand opening of the 2008 Missouri Adoption Heart Gallery. | |||||||||||||||
