Foster Care Furniture

A non-profit furniture manufacturing company
assisting disadvantaged children

Our Vision

Our vision is to develop a non-profit business that will provide enhanced public awareness about foster care and generate funding for young people in the foster care
program and other underprivileged youths. We provide:

Access to educational resources
Classroom instruction in carpentry and construction skills
On-the-job woodworking knowledge as trainees assist in making furniture for sale with all proceeds going to foster care and other underprivileged programs
Income during training. Trainees are paid $15 per hour during training
Tools, and opportunities they need to enhance their self-worth, live independently, and realize their full potential

Foster Care Furniture is one of three companies being developed to help the foster care program and provide homes for the unhoused.

You Can Help!
Buy Some Beautiful Furniture
and/or Become a Member and

HELP THE KIDS

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The “aging-out” problem

In most cases foster care for children ends when the child becomes 18 years old.
However, the National Opinion Research Center reports that full transition to adulthood does not happen until the age of 26.
With no committed adult to assist them to overcome obstacles, it invites problems.

Portrait of a pensive young woman isolated

One in four will not graduate from high school or be able to pass their GED.
Fewer than 4% will earn a college degree at any point in their life.
7 out of 10 girls will become pregnant before the age of 21.
Within a few years of leaving foster care:
- One fourth will have endured some period of homelessness.
- Almost two-thirds will have not maintained employment for a year.
- Four out of ten will have become parents.
- Not even one in five will be completely self-supporting.
- One in four males and one in ten females will have spent time in jail.

Help Us Get Established

VISIT OUR MEMBERSHIP PAGE

Membership funds and proceeds from the sale of furniture will be used to finance continued Foster Care Furniture operations. Donations will be used to hire instructors, purchase raw materials for making furniture, and other Foster Care Furniture operating expenses. Once Foster Care Furniture is established, the program should be self-sustaining, needing no outside funding, and will be able to contribute funds to other foster care programs.

If you prefer to send a check, please mail to:

Foster Care Furniture
1816 North 12th Street
Boise, ID 83702

Foster Children are
Not Bad Kids

Other eighteen-year-olds are sent out into the world with the tacit understanding that they aren’t really on their own.
They’re as close as a phone call or text to people ready to provide counsel about how to cope with unexpected emergencies of the everyday variety.
When they’re playing in a game or a concert, they know they can count on someone being there to applaud them.
Besides their parents they have the backing of other family members and friends and even friends of the family, not to mention coaches, teachers, and clergy, all of whom provide a collective safety net.
The scenario is much different for as many as 25,000 foster children without the connections and supports other children take for granted.

The Solution

Foster Care Furniture is a 501 C-3 non-profit corporation that has been created to train foster care youths in carpentry and woodworking skills. The trainees are paid to assist in manufacturing furniture that will be sold with all proceeds going to assist foster care children.
Foster Care Furniture works with the Department of Health and Welfare, the Idaho Department of Labor, and the U S Department of Labor, United Way, Casey Family Programs, and many other agencies to develop programs to assist Foster children transitioning into adults.
The furniture is made at the Maker Shop in Boise allowing the trainees to
be associated with some of the best wood-workers in Idaho, and possibly
the entire country, who will assist in the manufacturing the furniture.