We start with family.
YOUR FAMILY.

Technology to connect you to opportunities to serve children in foster care

FAMILIES FOSTER
& ADOPTIVE
Join Family-Match

Start your foster or adoption
inquiry here

RECRUITMENT
ORGANIZATIONS
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Connect foster and adoptive families to agencies

LICENSING
AGENCIES
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Recruit, train, and license families in your community

CHILD PLACEMENT
AGENCIES
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Find best-match families for children in the system

WHO WE ARE

Understanding Family-Match

Family-Match is a data-driven, decision-making tool that helps child welfare professionals identify and evaluate prospective foster and adoptive families to serve children in their communities.

Family-Match provides a better way for children to be connected to families who care.

Simplicity

transparency

engagement

visibility

We make compatible connections, FAST.

From sign-up to profile to contact to match

THE LEE FAMILY
Matched in just a few weeks of creating a Family-Match profile

WHAT WE DO

Serving Families

Serving Families

Our groundbreaking approach works.

EFFICIENT

We expedite family recruitment and fostering or adoption processes.

ACCESSIBLE

One platform serves everyone involved—and it’s all online.

STRATEGIC

Data drives recruitment, licensing, matching, and decision-making.

FAMILY-MATCH INCREASES THE NUMBER OF FINALIZED ADOPTIONS BY 17%

Slaugh, et al. (2024). Search and Matching for Adoption from Foster Care.

THE FAMILY-MATCH DIFFERENCE

We offer efficiency + speed.

Our unique technology narrows down prospects and fast-tracks foster placements and adoptions for children waiting for connection.

Families benefit experientially.

Our careful process greatly lessens chaos and trauma while increasing the likelihood of successful placements and happy families.

We help bridge the divide.

When agencies and families connect, high-quality, accelerated foster and adoptive recruitment and matching happen.