Family Match Uses Technology to Support Foster Care and Adoption

Family Match uses data to streamline family/child matches, creating permanency by generating connections the moment new candidates are identified and allowing caseworkers to connect to families directly, promoting a simplified workflow for overburdened caseworkers, saving states money, and enhancing the welfare of children in state care by promoting placement stability.

Benefits

Enhances the welfare of children in state care by promoting placement stability.
Match promotes a simplified workflow for overburdened caseworkers
Saves states money

Main Features

Markers extend past basic demographic information and the typical filters such as gender or age.
Families create free profiles and make themselves visible to caseworkers
Data-matching system to streamline family and child matches and to move toward permanency even faste

Primary Audience

Case Workers
Foster Families
Families looking to Adopt

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We Use Data for Good - and it is free for families

Family-Match uses compatibility markers to match children who are in state care with foster and adoptive families. Our unique platform helps child welfare workers to identify and match adoptive families, foster families, and foster-to-adopt families from across the U.S. with children who need safe and loving homes.

Raising The Odds For Foster Care and Adoption

Thea Ramirez is passionate about children. With the MSW following her name, it didn’t take long for Ramirez to see there were problems in the child welfare arena. Seeing an organization that is underfunded, overworked and understaffed, Ramirez knew that “the solutions are always out there. It’s how we leverage them that makes the difference.”

Algorithms To Assist Foster Kids And Families

You know when you hear about some new start-up company or a new invention, and you wonder Why didn’t someone think of this before? Well, that’s exactly how I felt when I read about Thea Ramirez and Family-Match.org. We are forever hearing about the need for foster parents, for people who will adopt older children and sibling groups, and for ways to help kids who are aging out of the system.

Sherri M

We all hear about the number of kids in foster care who desperately need homes, so when we first applied to be foster parents, we naturally assumed it would be a quick process. But things moved slowly. All that waiting created a very helpless feeling. With Family-Match we feel that the helpless feelings so many families experience in the public adoption process will be replaced with empowerment.

Thea Ramirez

Founder and Chief Sharer

Interview with Sci-TechMaven

Thea Ramirez

Founder and Chief Sharer

Interview with Sci-TechMaven

I realized that we have people waiting and waiting and waiting to adopt, and we have children waiting and waiting and waiting to be adopted, and no good way of connecting the two. The entire model is based on waiting.