Forge Families Beta

Give Foster Caregivers More Capacity for the Child

Forge Families helps caregivers organize daily care, prepare clearer reports and preserve each child's life story. Child placing agencies gain better information without asking families to do the same work twice.

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A Better Caregiver Experience Creates Value Across the Agency

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More Caseworker Capacity
Spend less time chasing routine information and more time coaching caregivers and solving problems.
02
Cleaner Information
Receive more complete, timely records with fewer missed details and clearer handoffs.
03
Better Placement Readiness
See current household capacity, strengths and placement criteria as circumstances change.
04
A Stronger Caregiver Network
Support onboarding, satisfaction and retention without adding more administrative work.
The Caregiver Lifecycle

Forge Starts Before the First Placement

  1. Train
    • Keep required learning and progress easy to find.
    • See upcoming requirements without hunting across systems.
  2. Set Up the Household
    • Enter core household information once and keep it independent of any child record.
    • Update it once when family circumstances change.
  3. Get Licensed and Ready
    • Track licensing, training, renewals, capacity and placement criteria.
    • Keep the household's readiness visible as requirements change.
  4. Match and Place
    • Give the agency a clearer view of current readiness and household strengths.
    • Help caseworkers make better-informed placement decisions.
  5. Support Active Placements
    • Organize daily care, child progress, expenses and communication as the month unfolds.
    • Keep daily details organized without adding an end-of-month scramble.
  6. Renew and Continue
    • Carry the household profile forward between placements as family circumstances change.
    • Reuse stable household information instead of starting over.

The Beta Is Ready to Demonstrate Across the Foster Home

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Daily Care and Child Development
Appointments, visits, medications, incidents, school, goals, child voice and progress stay connected to the child's record.
02
Caregiver Hub
Household readiness, licensing, training, mileage and expenses live in one caregiver workspace.
03
Life Story
Photos, relationships, memories and milestones form a child-centered record that can travel across placements.
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Reporting and Forge Assist
Caregivers can capture information once, review it and turn it into structured reports, logs, exports and prepared email.
Forge Assist

One Caregiver Update Can Become Several Useful Records

  1. The caregiver speaks or types one natural update
    • No need to enter the same event in several places.
  2. Forge Assist suggests the related records
    • A therapy update might create a note, follow-up appointment, goal progress and task.
  3. The caregiver reviews every suggestion
    • Nothing is saved until the caregiver confirms it.
  4. Approved information is ready for later reports
    • The month-end report starts with records already captured during daily care.

Cleaner Handoffs Start With Information Already Captured

01
Child Caseworker Report
Bring together caregiver-selected context from appointments, visits, goals, incidents, healthcare, school and medications.
02
Caregiver Caseworker Report
Prepare updates on training, licensing, expenses, mileage, caregiver concerns and caregiver goals.
03
PDF, Word and Excel
Create print-ready reports, editable Word documents and launch-ready medication and emergency drill logs.
04
Prepared Email
Open the caregiver's normal email app with recipients and message ready for review.
Scrapbook and Life Story

Every Child Deserves to Leave Foster Care With Their Life Story

  1. Preserve the story as it happens
    • Capture photos, milestones, important people, places, achievements, drawings, notes and memories while they are still available.
  2. Help the story travel with the child
    • A child-centered digital record keeps meaningful context from disappearing during placement changes.
  3. Give the child something that is theirs
    • Life-story research and AdoptUSKids guidance support a fuller narrative centered on the child, not only the case file.
  4. Reduce the Burden on Foster Parents
    • Save meaningful memories as part of daily care instead of reconstructing the story later.

Forge Works Beside the Systems CPAs Already Use

  • Care happens in the foster home.
  • Forge organizes caregiver-created information.
  • The agency's existing system remains the home for official records and workflows.
  • The beta uses caregiver-reviewed reports, logs and exports.
  • Future integrations will require approved synchronization and partner-specific permissions.
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