Every child deserves love
Get Involved with The Heart GalleryGet Involved with The Heart Gallery as a foster or adoptive family, or as a volunteer connecting children with community.
How to Get Involved with the Heart Gallery
About the Heart Gallery of Pinellas and Pasco
The Heart Gallery of Pinellas and Pasco is a program of Gulf Coast JFCS that connects children in foster care with their forever families through adoption. In addition to featuring children, we recruit and support families interested in adoption.
Since the Heart Gallery of Pinellas & Pasco was created in 2006, we have helped find more than 400 adoptive families for our waiting children.
EVENTS & CELEBRATIONS FOR HEART GALLERY FAMILIES
Want to spend time with other adoptive families? Heart Gallery of Pinellas and Pasco family fun nights are open to adoptive families looking for opportunities to share with like-minded individuals and a community cheering for you.
Photographers
Bill Cadzow
on working with The Heart Gallery
More than just a photographic exhibit, professional photographers volunteer their time and talent to create amazing portraits of foster children available for adoption. These portraits help them, through the power of a smile, to build a family, to connect with the community, and to create a bond that will change lives forever.
Photo by Skip Milos Photography
Interested in becoming a volunteer photographer?
Email a sample of your professional portfolio to: heartgallerykids@gcjfcs.org.
Support our adoption community by using these photographers.
The Heart Gallery would not be possible without each of these amazing and talented photographers:
HOST THE GALLERY
Do you have a business or a community space that you think would be perfect to host our Heart Gallery?
Our galleries are hugely important in raising awareness for local children living in foster care and waiting for their forever families. We are always looking for new sites throughout Pinellas and Pasco counties to display our portrait or digital galleries throughout the year.
Heart Gallery hosted at Tampa Bay Rays‘ Tropicana Field / Sponsored by Bloomin’ Brands
GIVE A GALLERY A HOME – AND
HELP A CHILD FIND A HOME!
Want to host a gallery and become an adoption ambassador?
With any size blank wall, your business or congregation can become a Heart Gallery ambassador or a faith-based champion.
Your business will be listed here with a link to your website. Learn more when you reach out to heartgallerykids@gcjfcs.org.
GET ON THE LIST OF GALLERIES IN THE COMMUNITY!
- Al Lang Stadium, Home of the Tampa Bay Rowdies
- Dunedin Presbyterian Catholic Church
- Great Explorations Children’s Museum
- Gulf Coast JFCS
- Our Lady Queen of Peace
- Pinellas County GAL Office & Hero To A Child
- Robert D. Sumner Judicial Center, Dade City Courthouse
- Romp n’ Roll St. Petersburg
- Pasco Hernando State College, East Campus
- Safety Harbor Chamber of Commerce
- Safety Harbor Public Library
- St. Jerome’s Catholic Church, Largo
- Tropicana Field, Home of the Tampa Bay Rays
- Westfield Countryside Mall
- West Pasco Judicial Center
ADOPTION PROCESS & RESOURCES
- All Children
- Available
- Heart Gallery
Deandre and Eric
Damond Age 15
Breanna Age 13
Ashton Age 12
Siyon Age 16
Sydney Age14
Dylan Age 17
Destiny Age 16
Brooklyn Age 16
Jeremiah Age 13
Cameron Age 15
David Age 14
Tristan Age 13
Julian Age 16
Terynce Age 15
Malachi Age 16
Steven Age 15
Jaiden Age 10
Zackorey Age 12
Jay Age 12
Aiden Age 14
Taylor Age 11
Eli Age 14
Michael Age 11
Demoni Age 11
The first step on your adoption journey is learning about what exactly the journey entails. Adoption is a unique way to build your family while changing children’s lives and enriching your own. While becoming a family is the biggest benefit, the State of Florida has many more to offer.