DRIPPING SPRINGS, Texas — Every week on KVUE, we feature a different child in the Texas foster care system, in hopes of helping them get adopted by a forever family.
Aidan is a friendly 17-year-old who’s hopeful he will be adopted before he ages out of foster care. He’s a senior in high school who says he enjoys going to school.
“I like art class the best. It allows me to get in touch with my creative side,” Aidan said.
KVUE’s Hannah Rucker met up with Aidan at Service Dogs Inc, an organization in Dripping Springs that rescues shelter dogs and trains them to be service dogs.
Aidan is a huge animal lover, starting from an early age.
“Animals bring out the best in me,” he said. “I remember as a little kid, we had a black-and-white German Shepherd and it was my job to take care of her.”
Aidan said after years of searching, he’s hoping to find the right fit for a family.
“It’s pretty hard, but when it comes to families, you just have to know what’s right. With adoption, you don’t know what you’re going to get out of it,” Aidan said. “Sometimes, it’s bad mentors and bad people. Sometimes, it’s good people, but [they] don’t know who you really are. It’s up to you to really express yourself.”
As for exactly what he’s looking for, he said, “A kind person that gets me.”
To learn more about Aidan or to put in an inquiry to adopt him, visit his page on the Heart Gallery of Central Texas. And catch his full story on KVUE Midday on Friday.
KVUE launched the Forever Families segment with Partnerships for Children (PFC) in June 2020 to highlight children in the Heart Gallery of Central Texas who need secure and permanent families. Every day, there are nearly 1,000 children waiting to get adopted in Central Texas, according to PFC.
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Editor’s note: The children who are in the Heart Gallery program and featured in KVUE’s Forever Families segments are children who have had every effort made on their behalf to connect them with family or others in their community to provide options for permanent, adoptive homes. Through no fault of their own, that hasn’t happened yet, and so in partnership with the Department of Family and Protective Services, we collaborate to bring awareness to KVUE viewers about these children in the hopes of finding them permanency before they age out.