This brings so much joy to my heart 🫶🏼 My girls Zoey and Karma were featured in the RGV Heart Gallery 4 years ago. It changed our lives & we found our forever family 👧🏻👧🏻💕 So many children are waiting for adoption & the Heart Galleries raise that desperately needed awareness!!
Heart Galleries of Texas has launched its Southeast Texas branch, helping children available for adoption in our communities find permanent, loving homes. Heart Galleries of Texas was able to bring its life-changing mission to Southeast Texas thanks to the tireless efforts of my wife Kim Phelan, First Lady of Texas Cecilia Abbott and other child welfare advocates, as well as a $12 million appropriation I was proud to have led the Texas House in passing last session.
This funding creates a statewide network that works to increase adoption and post-adoption services and is housed within The University of Texas’ Moritz Center for Societal Impact at the Steve Hicks School of Social Work. With the launch of its Southeast Texas operations, Heart Galleries is now in all of Texas’ 11 child welfare regions for the first time ever.
Heart Galleries helps connect young Texans awaiting adoption to caring families and community networks through beautiful photographs that capture the spirit and individuality of the children, allowing them to be truly seen and their stories told. Its mission goes beyond adoption, providing children and families with post-adoptive support. Heart Galleries gives a gift to Texas children that will last a lifetime—the gift of belonging and family.
If you are interested in hosting the Heart Gallery at your event, church, business or civic organization, you can contact my office or visit https://t.co/P9MSXuCDKV.
I am thrilled to have Heart Gallery of Southeast Texas be a part of our community. Their work will truly have a lasting impact on our state.
One of my proudest moments as a #txlege staffer for Speaker @DadePhelan was working on SB7/HJR 4 the Flood Infrastructure Fund (FIF). Meaningful funding for flood projects across Texas! Couldn’t have been done without the help Team @RepLyleLarson & @JennSaenz31
Happy #VeteransDay. We owe a debt to our vets, and one way to do that is to offer help to those who are suffering.
Thanks to @RepDominguez and @GovernorPerry, Bill 1802 passed this year - setting up a legal psilocybin trial in Texas for those with #PTSD.
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This Sunday, Nov. 7, is Stand Sunday, a day when communities of faith come together to pray for all children in foster care.
Whether you practice prayer or not, we hope you will think of these children and their families. #StandSunday https://t.co/c4rNPVRcYN
My first Mother’s Day with my two beautiful daughters 💕💖 They have enormous love for me in their little hearts and my love for them is a feeling I never thought possible. Happy Mother’s Day!!
We are excited to welcome Jenn Saenz to Lobby Land. Tune in to hear how Jenn ended up in Boston for school, her time as a staffer, her first lobby job and why she was denied entrance to the Senate floor as a staffer.
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Definitely an honor and a pleasure to be a guest speaker at the Texas Children’s Commission meeting today chaired by @JusticeGuzman !! Thank you for the invitation & for the fantastic work the Commission is doing to improve the child welfare system!! #txlege
In April 2020, she welcomed two adopted daughters from foster care into her home and immediately saw the significant transformation and healing of her girls when implementing trauma-informed care. Thank you, Ms. Saenz, for joining us today and sharing your story!
We had the greatest birthday party yesterday for these amazing little girls!!🎂🍭🦄 Karma turned 8 & Zoey turns 10 tmrw! The yummiest cakes, funnest bounce house & best friends & family!! This momma is so overjoyed to have thrown their first ever bday party that was so full of 💕
Celebrating the lives that are forever changed by the blessing of adoption.
For more information on foster care and adoption ⬇️ #NationalAdoptionDay
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