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The Indiana Heart Gallery is a traveling photographic exhibit featuring children in foster care who need and deserve a safe and loving home. The gallery showcases remarkable professional portraits of and stories about foster children in Indiana – all of whom long for loving and safe homes. The dramatic photos put a face on a sometimes invisible need and remind families that adoption can change lives.

Below are a few of the children in the Heart Gallery Tour. Click on each image for more details.

Sylvester  Hunter   Brianna

The Indiana Heart Gallery was created by the Indiana Department of Child Services in 2007 as one way to help these incredible children share their stories and hope of joining a family and encourage families to adopt. Many of the foster children featured in the gallery are older or special needs children, minorities, or members of a sibling group. All are considered hard-to-place children. Our goal is to keep the Heart Gallery moving until all of the children are adopted!

Heart Gallery Tour:

NORTH
Date Host Venue Location Time

Sept. 16-Oct 1

Trinity Evangelical Free Church

61770 Miami Road
South Bend, IN 46614
St. Joseph County

SAFY Event Sat. Sept 21
8am-5:30pm
M-F & Sun. 8am-5pm

Sept. 16-Oct.7

Southlake Family YMCA

1450 S. Court St.
Crown Point, IN46307
Lake County

M-R 5:30-9pm
F 5:30-7pm
Sat. 8am-3pm

Oct. 1-14

Baker Youth Club

765 W. Market St.
Warsaw, IN 46580
Kosciusko County

M-R 3-8pm & F 3-6pm

Oct. 3 

Great Kids make Great Communities

Allen County War Coliseum
4000 Parnell Ave
Fort Wayne, IN 46805

7:15am-4:30pm

Oct. 5

Indiana Autism Expo

2855 Miller Dr.
Plymouth, IN 46563
Marshall County

10am-1pm

EAST
WEST
CENTRAL

Sept. 28-Oct 1 

Southport United Methodist Church

1947 E. Southport Rd.
Indianapolis, IN 46227

Saturday 8am-6pm
Sun & Monday 8am-4:30pm

Oct. 1

Benihana Celebrity Cook Off

8830 Keystone Crossing
Indianapolis, IN
Marion County

5:30-10:30pm

SOUTH

Oct. 15-29

Fort Branch Johnson Twnshp. Pub. Lib.

107 E. Locust St.
Fort Branch, IN 47648
Gibson County

M & F 1-5pm,
W 10:30am-5pm
R 1:30-7pmd

Oct. 15-29

Oakland City-Colulmbia Twnshp. Pub. Lib.

210 S. Main St.
Oakland City, IN 47660
Gibson County

MWF 9am-6pm
T&R 9am-7pm
Sat. 9am-1pm

Oct. 15-29

Owensville Public Library

110 S. Main St.
Owensville, IN 47665
Gibson County

M&W 10am-6pm
R&F 10am-5pm
Sat. 10am-3pm

Oct. 15-29

Princeton Public Library

124 S. Hart St.
Princeton, IN 47670
Gibson, IN County

M-R 9am-8pm
F&Sat. 9am-5pm

Oct. 29-
Nov. 12

New Hope Christian Church

559 E. 100 South
Washington, IN 47501
Daviess County

M-R 9am-5pm   
F 9am-12pm
Sun. 8am-7pm

Oct. 29-
Nov. 12 

Eastside Christian Church

2319 Veterans Parkway,
Jeffersonville, IN

Sunday-Friday 9am-4pm,
Saturday, Nov 3rd open in the evening
for the screening of movie.

To find out more about adopting a child or to host your own Gallery, call 1.888.25.ADOPT. The Heart Gallery's e-mail address is: IndianaHeartGallery@dcs.in.gov  You can also visit the Indiana Heart Gallery on Twitter and on Facebook.

Are you interested in adopting or learning more about the process? Click here.

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