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Heart Heroes

The Heart Heroes program was created to celebrate all the children who show us how to be true heroes through their struggles with congenital heart disease.

Our Heart Hero program is graciously funded by a Grant from the Nagel Foundation. Thank you Nagel Foundation for helping us these bring these Heart Heroes and their families together!

To learn more about the incredible families and the heart heroes that we serve – watch here! 

“The Jayden DeLuca Foundation has made a huge impact on our family. Being able to meet and befriend others who have been on a similar journey with a Heart Hero is good for the soul! It makes us, and other families like ours, realize we’re not alone. The JDF celebrates my son, Landon, and other Heart Heroes for the incredible strength they have just for being them! It’s powerful.” – Lyndsay Tiller Soule, Heart Hero Mother

 

A BIG THANK YOU to the Nagel Foundation for sponsoring our Heart Hero program!!!


Heart Heroes on the Ice at the Idaho Steelheads!

March 2, 2024

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Heart Heroes at Lowe Family Farmstead!

October 18, 2023

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Heart Heroes at the Boise Hawks!

September 6, 2023

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Heart Heroes at Parma Motor Vu Drive In!

August 11, 2023

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Heart Hero Walk with the AHA!

May 20, 2023

Heart Heroes at Fast Lanes Go Karts!

March 15, 2023

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Heart Heroes on the Ice at the Idaho Steelheads!

February 11, 2023

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Heart Heroes at Lowe Family Farmstead!

October 20, 2022

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Heart Heroes at Bogus Basin!

August 28, 2022

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Heart Heroes on the Ice at the

Idaho Steelheads!

February 26, 2022

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Click here to see more photos from this fun night with the JDF Heart Hero Families!!! 


Tubing with the JDF Heart Heroes  Gateway Parks – Eagle, Idaho  January 24, 2022 

 

 

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A Little Spooky, A LOT of Fun!!

Heart Heroes at The Haunted World October 21, 2021

 


Heart Heroes on the BLUE!!!

Boise State Football – October 16, 2021

 


 

Whitewater Rafting with Heart Heroes – Cascade Raft & Kayak – August 14, 2021

 


 

Wild for Heart Heroes Event – Zoo Boise – June 13, 2021

 

 

To see more photos from our Wild for Heart Heroes Event at Zoo Boise, please click HERE!! 


 

Heart Hero Family Photos – 2021 

We were so happy to offer our Heart Hero Families a chance to update their family photos in 2021 — an incredible partnership with Hill Photography!! 


Heart Hero Party Night at Lowe Family Farmstead

October 20, 2020 

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Heart Hero Back To School Shopping Supply Experience

Fall 2020 

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Heart Hero Party Night at Parma Motor-Vu Drive In

August 13, 2020 

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Heart Hero Party Night at the

Idaho Steelheads 

February 7, 2020

 

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Heart Hero Party Night at Growler’s Pizza Grill with Brush’d Painting Experience

January 29, 2020

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Heart Hero Party Night at

Lowe Family Farmstead

October 28, 2019

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Heart Hero Picnic in the Park

August 2019

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Heart Hero Party at the Hawk’s Game

June 2019

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Heart Hero Pizza and Bowling Party February 2019

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Heart Hero Event Photography

credited to:

 

Hill Photography

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kynli

Kynli was born with a unique heart condition where she has a single ventricle and atrium and a hole in the septum. Throughout many years of close observation and monitoring, she has had three strategic open-heart surgeries at Oakland and Stanford Children’s Hospitals in California. Kynli’s first heart surgery was a Bidirectional Glenn procedure, the second was to repair her right pulmonary vein, and the third was the Fontan Procedure. She has had multiple cardiac catheterization procedures and echocardiograms by Dr. Womack locally. In addition to her cardiac concerns, she also has Heterotaxy Syndrome, meaning that her internal anatomy is arranged differently. Her stomach sits

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“I wanted to thank you again for your gift. The money has already gone to good use. There was a patient from Idaho with PH that needed oxygen on the airplane and we could not get it funded, so we used Jayden’s fund to pay for it so the family could go home sooner. We have recently sent in 4 different pulmonary hypertension papers to medical journals on different aspects of PH in children.”

- Dr Dunbar Ivy,  The Children's Hospital - Denver, Colorado

“Fifty years ago we would have known her heart was the problem but have not been able to repair it. Fifteen years ago the heart/lung bypass machine was not advanced enough and would have destroyed her kidneys during her surgery. It is only today, with all our medical advancements, that my baby could be ok. The words thankful do not even begin to describe how we feel.”

- Gracen’s Mom