BOISE, Idaho (CBS2) — Nonprofit Foster Care Furniture provides foster care youth access to carpentry, woodworking, construction, and educational resources.
As three hundred to five hundred kids age out of foster care in Idaho every year the founder of FCF, Bruce Wingate, wanted to create an organization that would help support those kids as they made the sometimes tough transition.
FCF has been able to hold its first free training session, thanks to a fifty thousand dollar grant from the Idaho Workforce Development Council.
FCF has been able to hire experienced teachers to train each of the kids in multiple workshops.
Throughout the 12-week training session, the trainees will be working on and completing projects like a toolbox, picture frames, and epoxy resin tables.
In the first week, they practiced different kinds of joints and got more comfortable on various equipment.
Foster Care Furniture instructor David Donnelly said, "Some of them were very very nervous just being at the table saw, if I can improve their confidence level and have them believe in themselves, the problem-solving skills that they learn can be applicable to most anything in life."
Wingate says the main purpose of the training is to get kids employed, even if it isn't in the woodworking field. That way any at-risk kids or aging-out kids that don't have support will have a career and a way to support themselves.
To start making those connections the College of Western Idaho will be hosting a job fair at the end of the of the training.
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