Tess Thomas is a long-standing Board member and does foster care in the Seattle area and fosters teens with a myriad of difficult backgrounds and situations. Tess’ home was featured in a documentary “Take This Heart” sponsored by the Casey Foundation to promote foster care and educate for public awareness of foster issues. Tess continues to serve in an advisory capacity on several boards and commissions regarding youth in out of home care. She has authored a book “The Love Returns”. Ms Thomas has been a foster parent for over 15 years.

Lynn Urvina works at Family Education and Support Services, a non-profit agency, where she serves as the Kinship Navigator for Thurston, Lewis and Mason Counties.  She and her husband have four children and fourteen grandchildren, They have raised  their 8 year old granddaughter since she was just a year old and have recently ad

Title: Director at Large and Board Parliamentarian  

A Foster Parent for over 8 years, Amy and her husband, Mike, are experienced caregivers for drug affected and medically fragile infants.  Amy and Mike have been married for 22 years and have raised a daughter, Catie who is 18 and runs her own business.  Over the years, they have fostered 14 special needs infants, 3 of which were twins!  While Mike works for Georgia Pacific, Amy spends her time