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Meet the children at: http://www.adoptachild.in.gov. The Indiana Heart Gallery is presented by the Indiana Department of Child Services in collaboration with Hederick Partnerships. For more information about adoption:

Ph: 1-888-25-ADOPT

You can contact the Heart Gallery:
Email:icanhelpkids@indianaheartgallery.org

About Indiana Heart Gallery

The Heart Gallery is an initiative of the Indiana Department of Child Services (DCS) with a mission to raise awareness about the approximately 300 Hoosier children currently in foster care still in need of a forever home.    

Using the talents of professional photographers who volunteer their time, the individual spirit and true personality of each child is captured.  Heart Gallery photographs sometimes show shy children wrapped in their security blankets, girls dressed up as princesses, boys hugging dogs and siblings laughing together.  The children all have one thing in common:  they need and deserve families that will give them the unconditional love they have never experienced. 

Indiana’s Heart Gallery is a traveling photographic exhibit DCS created in 2007 to find forever families for children in foster care.  The Gallery can feature more than 40 portraits, depending on the size of the exhibit area.  It travels to various public exhibition spaces across the State over 50 times throughout the year. Venues generally include libraries, museums community centers, hospitals and churches.  Since the first Heart Gallery started in New Mexico in 2001, thousands of children have found their forever families as a direct result of these exhibitions. 

“All children want a home filled with love and a family with whom they can share their birthdays and celebrate holidays.  They want a room with their own toys, to have friends, play sports and participate in after-school activities.  Most importantly, they want a loving, supportive family to be there for them as they grow up,” noted DCS Director James Payne.  “The children featured in the Heart Gallery are no exception.  They just need a little help—from all of us—in finding that forever family.”

For more information about the Indiana Heart Gallery, go to http://www.in.gov/dcs/3033.htm or contact us at icanhelpkids@indianaheartgallery.org.  To find out more about adopting an Indiana child or to host a Gallery, call 888.25ADOPT.