Family-Match is designed to promote placement stability by matching children in foster care with foster and adoptive families on markers of compatibility. Register to participate in our demonstration pilot today!

What Families Are Saying

We have been on our adoption journey for almost 6 years.After experiencing infertility and miscarriages. We felt called to adoption and have been waiting ever since! We are open to any race, gender, disability, age 0-5 yrs old. We are very open to sibling groups and child with HIV+. We are so excited Family-Match is here to help families like ours who have been waiting for so long! With Family-Match the wait is over!
- The Brown's

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 is a very helpless feeling. With Family-Match we feel that the helpless feeling so many families experience in the public adoption process will be replaced with empowerment.
- The Moore's

We are a Foster to Adopt Family waiting since April of 2012. After the first few months passed with no phone call, we began searching online for kids eligible to be adopted and would reach out, leave a message, and never get a return call. With Family-Match we are pumped to be using a tool that will be a help to overwhelmed case workers. We are so excited to be found!
- The Wrease's

The need for Family-Match hit home for me when I was at a recent event where our children who are freed for adoption were being showcased on an online platform. I thought of the Family-Match concept: to have the prospective families be in a data repository that you could search for rather than relying on families to search for children. Truly, a light bulb moment.
- Child Welfare Worker

How It Works

Family-Match partners with state governments to offer case workers on the front line of their child welfare programs with an innovative tool to match children with families on markers of compatibility. Our technology promotes a simplified work flow for overburdened case workers, saves the state money, and enhances the welfare of children in state care by promoting placement stability.

Waiting families from around the country create free profiles and make themselves visible to caseworkers everywhere. With this powerful network in hand, caseworkers are able to identify families on markers of compatibility that extend beyond basic demographic information. Through our automated matching system, Family-Match generates optimal connections at the moment new candidates are identified and allows caseworkers the opportunity to connect with families directly.

FAQs

How much does it cost

Family-Match is free for families! Create your FREE profile to showcase your family today!

How can a child welfare case worker contact me?

There are two ways you may be contacted.

Child welfare workers that have identified your family as a match may contact you by submitting a message to you through the site. Be sure to check your "messages and alerts" section of your profile.
Child welfare workers that have a formal partnership with Family-Match can contact you through the personal contact information you choose to share. Your profile allows you to identify how you want to be contacted by a child welfare caseworker. Keep in mind that only child welfare workers with established accounts can see your contact information. Caseworkers who utilize the general search tool on the home page only have the option of sending you a message through the site.

What kinds of families can join?

We welcome all kinds of resource families to join our site. Home study approved adoptive families, foster families and families approved to foster and adopt may join. We also welcome families that have started the process of becoming an adoptive or foster parent. Regardless of where you are in the process, we want child welfare workers to know you are out there, ready, or almost ready, to be connect with a child.

I am a child welfare caseworker. Can I use your site?

Absolutely! All child welfare caseworkers are invited to use our Find a Family tool located on the toolbar at the top. To utilize the full features of our tool and create a private account please contact us at: info@family-match.org.

Announcing a special opportunity for all Home Study - approved adoptive and foster-to-adopt families in the Commonwealth of Virginia