WHAT IS A HEART GALLERY?

A Family For Every Child (AFFEC) is a Heart Gallery. A Heart Gallery is a portrait exhibit to raise awareness of the needs of children, those waiting and hoping for their own adoptive family, mentor, or CASA volunteer to love and protect them. Professional photographers volunteer to take compelling portraits of the children. These beautifully framed and matted portraits are then displayed along with the children's biography in various venues. The Heart Galleries keep the portraits and biographies current as the children are adopted. Heart Galleries, which participate in an umbrella organization, Heart Gallery of America, are all independent non-profit organizations, though some are started by and maintained by state workers throughout the country.

AFFEC operates Heart Galleries throughout Oregon and Washington and the Pacific Northwest, both as photo displays and on the internet. In the State of Oregon, the Lane County Heart Gallery, which grew beyond our wildest expectations, has renamed its Oregon operation A Family For Every Child Heart Gallery; the Oregon Heart Gallery is an independent operation, primarily in the Portland area. AFFEC has also taken a pro-active role in the State of Washington, displaying Washington children for adoption and snagging www.washingtonheartgallery.org for listing Washington children. We have had contact with social workers in Alaska, Idaho, and Montana who would like to photo-list children for adoption in those states as well, which we pursuing as fast as we have resources to expand.

If you have time, you are invited to visit one of our current venues. Many venues have better quality photos than can be displayed on the internet. Our websites also display web-quality photos of the children. Please click below to visit any of the affiliated Heart Gallery websites:

Our web sites are a work-in-progress, and are constantly updated as we learn the status of children who are available for adoption. The sites are being combined, but at the present time, link between themselves. Feel welcome to browse around; they are replete with information on foster care, adoption, and post-adoption support. And feel free to email us your comments and suggestions.

For more information about Heart Galleries, please visit our Heart Gallery page at A Family For Every Child: http://www.lanecountyheartgallery.org/HeartGallery/HeartGallery.html