The System Is Losing Families. We're Building the Fix.
328,947 children are in foster care. 70% of willing families never finish the process. FosterSupport.org builds the technology that closes that gap.
It's Not a People Problem. It's a Systems Problem.
Every year, thousands of families step forward wanting to foster. Then they hit the paperwork. The 3-to-8 month licensing timeline. The systems built in the 1990s. The reports that get overwritten when both parents try to contribute. The caseworker who burns out and leaves before your case is finished.
For every 10 families who express interest in fostering, only 3 make it through the process. Of those 3, one or two will quit within a year. Meanwhile, the average caseworker carries and stays less than two years on the job.
The result? Children wait longer. Families give up. And a system keeps running on fax machines and sticky notes.
Average tenure of a child welfare caseworker — while the average child stays in care for nearly 2 years. Most children outlast their caseworker.
Lifetime cost to taxpayers for each youth who ages out of foster care without a permanent family. Prevention and support aren't just compassionate — they're economically rational.
That's all it takes in additional support to cut the foster family dropout rate nearly in half, according to randomized controlled trials. Small investments yield massive returns.
Four Programs. One Mission.
Each program targets a critical failure point in the foster care system — from the moment a family considers fostering to the day a young person ages out.
Built from Firsthand Experience
FosterSupport.org was founded by licensed foster and adoptive parents who navigated the system themselves — and saw how badly it fails the families it's meant to support. Pad-and-paper goal tracking. Monthly reports that get overwritten. Systems built in the 1990s. Caseworkers who burn out and leave before your case is closed.
Our team brings together enterprise technology, product management, data science, and human-centered design to build what the child welfare system should have provided all along — modern tools that make compliance, reporting, and data-driven decision-making second nature.
Starting in Texas. Scaling Nationwide.
Texas has over and a child welfare IT system . The state estimated needing just to begin modernizing it. We're not waiting for that to happen. Our programs are built to work alongside existing systems, filling the gaps today while the infrastructure catches up.
Based in Plano, TX, we partner with Texas agencies and families first — then expand to every state that needs us. Because every state needs us.
Don't Stay on the Sidelines
Every dollar, every partnership, every share brings us closer to a foster care system that actually works for families. The children in this system can't afford to wait.