Three kinds of work. All at once.
These aren't stages we graduate through. The tools show where the system breaks. The data proves it. Research explains it. The law fixes it. Then people need new tools to use their new rights, and the cycle starts again.
Build
Tools and resources for everyone in the system: youth, birth and foster parents, kinship caregivers, caseworkers, CASAs and agencies.
Live now
Foster411: plain-English, sourced answers to the questions Georgia foster families actually ask, from per diem rates to court timelines.
Free website and tool builds for nonprofits that serve foster youth.
Next
- A continuing-education training site for people who work in foster care.
- Foster411 for Florida and South Carolina, now in research.
Ahead
Technology built for the agencies that run the system.
Research
Public data, databases, visualizations and original research, done alongside the nonprofits that see the problems firsthand.
Active now
Collecting and organizing public foster care data, starting with federal AFCARS counts and state policy manuals. Every number we publish carries its source and the date we checked it.
Next
Our first published data piece: what public foster care data can and can't tell us.
Ahead
Research partnerships with nonprofits, sharing data and doing original research together.
Change
Analysis of the laws and policies that govern foster care, then model legislation that puts youth and families first.
Now publishing
Line-by-line reads of the law: what it promises and whether anyone is checking. Start with the 30-day relative notice rule.
Next
Model legislation, drafted from what the research shows.
Ahead
Dedicated legislative and legal work.
Work on this with us.
We work with nonprofits that serve youth in foster care. The build is free, and the relationship is how the research and the policy work get better.
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