Sewing: My Houston foster-care journey ended with courtroom joy. I wish more kids got this chance.
A’aliyah, 11, is a loving, sweet, and social child. She is full of energy. She is currently in foster care and featured in BEAR's Heart Gallery, which helps find forever families for foster children.I handed out pink fans with the words,"Family Forever," and a friend passed around a box of tissue. Tears of joy are inevitable at these hearings, though I had convinced myself I wasn't going to cry.
I became a mother almost instantly. My children, biological siblings, were placed with me within weeks apart. I prayed to have the strength to be what they needed, and the answer to my prayers often came in the many people who surrounded us with love and gave us what we needed.Many children in foster care never get this day in court. I wish more did. There are thousands of children in foster care in Houston and not nearly enough adoptive families.
The Heart Gallery Houston has permanent exhibits at Deerbook Mall, Willowbrook Mall and The Woodlands Mall. There are also Heart Galleries nationwide.
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