Colorado Heart Gallery Virtual Display Social Media Toolkit Since many gathering places are closed, help us promote the Colorado Heart Gallery and highlight the more than 400 children in foster care who are waiting for an adoptive family on your organizations’ social media channels. Suggested Hashtags We encourage partners to use these additional hashtags in social media posts when possible: #IfNotYou— This hashtag is a singular call to action for adoption, foster care, and calling the child abuse prevention hotline in Colorado. #CO4Kids—This hashtag is the general hashtag used for all CO4Kids/Colorado Foster Care social media posts #COHeartGallery — This hashtag is for the Colorado Heart Gallery CO4Kids Social Media Channels Please tag the Colorado Heart Gallery and Colorado’s Office of Children, Youth and Families’ social media channels in your posts Facebook @COHeartGallery Instagram and Twitter @CO4Kids CO4Kids.org Page 1 Suggested Social Posts The following are suggested social media posts to share from your organization: Facebook As the COVID-19 pandemic Today in Colorado more than 400 As many of us are confined with our Colorado is committed to continues to change our lives kids in the foster care system are families, there kids across Colorado inclusion. There are no restrictions there are more than 400 kids in waiting to be adopted. Many of the who are waiting for a family of their on who can foster or adopt Colorado who are still waiting kids who are waiting are older teens own. Did you know that adoption based on race, ethnicity, religion, to be adopted. If Not You, Then or siblings groups. Meet Colorado’s from foster care has little to NO sexual orientation or expression, Who? Meet Colorado’s Kids. Kids. Go to coheartgallery.org cost? Did you know that more than gender identity, language or coheartgallery.org #IfNotYou to learn more. If Not You, Then 400 kids in Colorado are waiting marital status. What matters is #CO4Kids #COHeartGallery Who? #IfNotYou #CO4Kids to be adopted? If Not You, Then that you are ready to make a #COHeartGallery Who? Meet Colorado’s Kids at difference in a child or youth’s coheartgallery.org #IfNotYou life at a time when they need #CO4Kids #COHeartGallery you the most. If Not You, Then Who? Meet Colorado’s Kids at coheartgallery.org #IfNotYou #CO4Kids #COHeartGallery Instagram As the COVID-19 pandemic Today in Colorado more than As many of us are confined with Colorado is committed continues to change our lives, 400 kids in the foster care system our families, there kids across to inclusion. There are no there are more than 400 kids are waiting to be adopted. Many Colorado who are waiting for restrictions on who can foster or who are still waiting to be of the kids who are waiting are a family of their own. Did you adopt based on race, ethnicity, adopted. If Not You, Then Who? older teens or siblings groups. know that adoption from foster religion, sexual orientation or Meet Colorado’s Kids. Meet Colorado’s Kids. If Not You, care has little to NO cost? Did expression, gender identity, #IfNotYou #CO4Kids Then Who? #IfNotYou #CO4Kids you know that more than 400 language or marital status. #COHeartGallery #COHeartGallery kids in Colorado are waiting to What matters is that you are be adopted? If Not You, Then ready to make a difference in Who? #IfNotYou #CO4Kids a child or youth’s life at a time #COHeartGallery when they need you the most. If Not You, Then Who? #IfNotYou #CO4Kids #COHeartGallery Twitter Today in Colorado more than 400 kids in Colorado has no restrictions on who can foster Colorado needs more than 400 families for kids the foster care system are still waiting to be or adopt based on race, ethnicity, religion, in Colorado who are waiting to be adopted. adopted. Many of the kids who are waiting are sexual orientation or expression, gender identity, If Not You, Then Who? #IfNotYou #CO4Kids older teens or siblings groups. If Not You, Then language or marital status. If Not You, Then #COHeartGallery @CO4Kids Who? #IfNotYou#CO4Kids #COHeartGallery Who? #IfNotYou #CO4Kids #COHeartGallery @CO4Kids @CO4Kids Additional Post Ideas • Families in your community who have adopted. • (Don’t use photos of young people whose adoptions have not been finalized.) • Photo of your organziations’ past or current Colorado Heart Gallery display. • Photo of you or your organization celebrating an adoption in your community. • Photo of your organization celebrating National Adoption Month in November. CO4Kids.org Page 2.