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Link your child to a school or organization

If your child's school, church, sports club, or community center uses Boomeraang, you can link your child to it. When staff scan a found item that belongs to your child, the system already knows how to reach you — so things come home faster.

1. Find the organization​

  1. Go to Family, open your child, and choose Link organization (or Sharing).
  2. Search by the organization's name. You can filter by type — School, Community Center, Sports Center, Church, or Other — and by location.
  3. Select the right organization.

Searching for and linking a school

2. Set what you share​

When you link, you choose the details that help staff match a found item to your child — typically their grade and teacher. You control this on the Sharing screen and can change it anytime.

Sharing preferences for a linked child

Your privacy stays protected

Linking shares only what you choose with verified staff at that organization — never with the general public. A stranger who scans a tag still never sees your child's name or your address. See When your tag is scanned.

What linking does (and doesn't) unlock​

  • Every member — free included — can search organizations, link their child, get notified when their tag is scanned, and browse and claim items from that organization's lost & found. No subscription needed.
  • The organization has to switch it on. An admin enables Share lost & found inventory with linked parents in their organization profile. Until they do, you'll still get scan notifications, but there's no inventory to browse.
  • You see the whole catalog, but not other families' details. Item descriptions, locations and dates are visible for every item so you can spot your own things. A child's name, grade and school are only ever shown on your own children's items.

What's next​

Still stuck? Contact us — we're happy to help.