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Heart Gallery of Pinellas and Pasco
Ron Favali, Board Member
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• The mission of the Heart Gallery of Pinellas and Pasco is to increase the number of successful adoptions of local children in foster care.
• In addition to featuring children, we recruit and support families interested in adoption.
• There are approximately 3000 kids in Tampa Bay living in foster care.
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Shall we play a game?
This is audience participation
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Give me one word to describe the following kids.
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These are all children who live, or have lived, in foster care in Pinellas and Pasco.
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What did you get on your 18th birthday?
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What do kids in living in foster care get for their 18th Birthday?
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Every resource they have ever known is taken away.
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They “age out.”
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Every year 24,000 children living in foster care turn 18 and “age out” of the system.
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What happens to them?
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• Most are put into the world without their own housing, financial support, or emotional support.
• Many become homeless.
• Less than 3% will earn a college degree.
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• 38% have emotional problems.
• 50% use illegal drugs.
• 25% involved with legal system.
• Only 48% will graduate high school.
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For every child who ages out of foster care, You, the taxpayer, pays an average of $300,000 in social costs.
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• Incarceration
• Public assistance
• Lost wages
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$8 billion social costs every year
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• Since its inception in 2006, The Heart Gallery of Pinellas and Pasco has matched nearly 300 kids living in foster care with their “forever families.”
• We are about to celebrate our 10 year anniversary.
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How can you help?
• $500 – the cost of a professionally shot and edited video of one of our waiting children.
• $1000 – covers all costs of hosting and maintaining our physical gallery for a year.
• $3000 covers all cost for for pre- and post-Adoption Support Service for one year.
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Other ways you can help
• Host the physical gallery.
• Attend/Sponsor “Celebrate Me Home” this may at Tropicana Field.
• Help us spread the word.
• Follow us
– @theheartgallery
– Heart Galley of Pinellas and Pasco