Foster Care Technologies

Foster Care Technologies is the company behind ECAP, software that helps foster care agencies decide which home a child should be placed in. It works in the United States with child welfare organisations and the caseworkers and placement coordinators who make these decisions.

What Foster Care Technologies offers

• ECAP placement management: a single system holding the information staff need when choosing a placement, rather than scattered records.
• Matching support: algorithms combined with child welfare knowledge to suggest homes suited to each child's needs.
• Provider coordination: tools that make it easier for agencies to manage placements with provider organisations.
• Set-up and ongoing support: tailoring, building and launching ECAP for each agency, then monitoring use and following up after launch.

Clients

Foster care and child welfare organisations in the US. Quoted users include staff at Nonprofit Solutions, Inc. in Kansas and Oklahoma and at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Community Services.

Key facts

• Based in: United States
• Product: ECAP, described as a research-backed placement system
• Stated results: a 22.5% rise in placement stability and more than 50 days less time to permanency, according to the company