About FosterUnity

  • Equip advocates, empower children.

    We see a child welfare system where the people closest to a child — the foster parents who show up every day — have the tools, the voice, and the standing to be true advocates. Where the information they hold shapes the decisions being made. And where every child in care has a better chance at stability and a stronger path forward because of it.

  • Connecting foster children to the services and support they need for lifelong success.

    We do that by building tools that make foster parents more visible, more informed, and more effective in the child welfare system — and by ensuring the knowledge they hold actually reaches the people who need it.

  • We’re not trying to replace the systems agencies already use. Ohio’s child welfare agencies operate complex, federally regulated information environments, and we respect that. FosterConnect is designed as a complementary layer — capturing the documentation that existing systems weren’t built to handle, and surfacing it to the people who need it.

    We’re also committed to keeping core tools free for foster families. The work foster parents do is already unpaid — every essential feature in FosterConnect will always be accessible at no cost. Foster parents who want additional capabilities can choose to unlock them, but the foundation is free.

Why we exist

Foster parents are the constant presence in a child’s day-to-day life. They witness behavioral changes, attend medical appointments, manage sibling dynamics, and hold the thread of a child’s story even when everything else is in flux. But the systems built around child welfare weren’t designed with foster parents at the center — and the information they hold rarely gets captured in a useful, timely way.

FosterUnity started with a simple question: what would it look like to actually fix that?

Services in development
data capturing the foster care journey

Where we’re headed

We’re currently in formation and in active development, focused on the Ohio market. Butler County is our initial pilot market — where the founder has spent a decade fostering and building relationships with local agencies and families. Our longer-term goal is a platform that any Ohio PCSA can adopt — and eventually, a model that scales.

We’re taking our time to do this right. The stakes are too high to rush it.