Kinship Families
Kinship families- where relatives care for their own family members (ex. grandparents taking care of a grandchild), often lack automatic access to governmental aid, and by sponsoring a kinship family, you provide essential support to help the entire family thrive.
Young Family
Hi we're Skylar and Taryn Young and our four year old daughter Eliza! We love being out in nature, camping, fishing, and hiking! We got into fostering through kinship and are now busy navigating life with a teenager. As far as our needs go we are needing: pads, deodorant, toothbrush, toothpaste, face wash/wipes, body wash she would all use. For clothes she wears a XS/S in shirts and dresses, and a S/27/4 in pants and shorts and a size 6 in shoes. She really loves reading Manga (anime comics) as well as anything hello kitty.
Currently Being Sponsored!
Giffin Family
We are kinship and our grandson is 9. He is currently in sizes 12 pants and size Large shirts. He is tall for his age He is cowboy and wears his wranglers, long sleeve western shirts and cowboy boots everyday even in the summer (cuz he says cowboys don’t wear shorts ). He loves rodeo and is a Jr bull rider but is not riding this year after a minor injury but he really wants to learn to ride horses and rope and wants to bulk dog at the rodeos. We are in the process of saving up for a horse! We have a mini farm and he loves animals!! He is an only child and has two little girl cousins that are 5 and 2. He doesn’t have many friends except his fellow cowboys. He loves to swim and is happiest playing out side, riding his bike, swimming, playing with our farm animals, fishing, and of course rodeo.
Soto Family
We are a kinship family that is great grandparents fostering our great grand child. We have always adopted and fostered children and never had any biological children of our own but feel as if we were only meant to care for children not biologically ours. Our grandson comes from a traumatic background, and we need all the support we can get since are great-grandparents! Thank you for helping us provide items for our sweet grandson.
Smith Family
We are a kinship family in meridian. Our grandson has a sister in heaven and loves Sea Food, Pizza and Hamburgers. Video games, trampoline Parks, swimming, playing with other kids. Anime, super hero’s, suspense. He is looking forward to the monthly teen outing program.
Avilla Family
We are a kinship family in meridian with a 9 year old boy. He is special needs he is big for his age but he cant read or write he has a lot of mental diagnoses. Food is difficult nothing can be mixed. It has to be plain but he does like fresh fruit vegetable, especially strawberries, green apples, carrots broccoli spinach. He likes Nerf guns rock hounding, swimming. Gold panning. Camping V he loves YouTube. He likes to watch videos on Minecraft, but also videos of real life things happening with whether somebody’s fishing or making things life hacks.
White Family
We are a kinship family located in Nampa. Our foster teen boy enjoys playing soccer, playing video games, star wars, maps, he likes sour candy, fruit snacks, cheese pizza. He likes some anime. Very logical in his thinking- board games, chess, puzzles, and coding are always a hit.
Williams-Wood Family
I am a kinship parent located in Meridian. I am fostering twin seven-year-olds- a boy and girl. The girl loves princesses, unicorns, Mac and cheese (gourmet kind), gymnastics, soccer, running, volleyball, biking, swimming, hiking, jewelry. The boy loves cars, ninja turtles, soccer, biking, hiking, swimming. Our biggest needs are hair cuts, twin bedding, and sport clubs.
Wade Craig Family
We are a Kinship family located in Boise. Our girl loves flavored pretzels, funky flavored Mt Dew, she loves dinosaurs and Jurassic Park, funny animals, not super girly, retro bands and very 90's. We just need help with basic needs, I've got 5 kids so budget is thin. Women's shirts size xl, pull on sweats/pants size xl, shoes 8.5-9, socks, underwear, winter clothes.
Jorgensen Family
We are a kinship family fostering our 3 year old grandson. We are in need of 5t clothes and size 11 shoes. He likes spiderman and anything camping related.
Volpe Family
We are a kinship family in kuna and fostering a sibling set. They were sent to us with no toys or books, all ill fitting or warm season clothes. We've gotten them some things but they don't have a lot. We are still waiting for the back ERR pay and reimbursement for clothing. They like Harry Potter, Diary of a wimpy kid, playing outside, scooters, pickleball, legos. Bella is allergic to peanuts, shellfish, wheat, soy and milk. Isis is allergic to gluten and milk.
Tucker Family
We are paternal grandparents Carole, Brent Tucker. And we have gotten our granddaughter 9 years ago in November 2016. Aubrey, Carole, Sue, she is now 10. We also have a black rabbit named Whitney. She is our family pet Brent works at IMPORT ENGINE SUPPLY and Boise Cylinder head. Carole works at the Boise school district at Fairmont kitchen She is the asst manager. Carole also works part time at IMPORT ENGINE SUPPLY and at Boise Cylinder head. We are active grandparents. Aubrey is in Tang So Do. It is a Korean style karate. Aubrey is blue belt. She loves gymnastics , playing the violin and she is in her elementary school choir. We appreciate all the help and support we receive from Loving Local.