Foster Adopt Connect

Name

Foster Adopt Connect

Legal name

Foster Adopt Connect Inc.

Website

https://fosteradopt.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1998

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Child Welfare Social Services

NAICS

Child and Youth Services (62411), Individual and Family Services (6241), Other Individual and Family Services (624190), Temporary Shelters (624221)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Child Welfare, Foster Care & Adoption Services (BPAGAEAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Family & Parenting Support Services (BPAGAEAC), Transition Services (Secondary to Postsecondary/Employment, Life Skills) (EDAJAKAG)

Keywords

• Foster care services
• Adoption support programs
• Kinship care navigation
• Behavioral health therapy
• Child welfare nonprofit

Headquarters

HQ city

Independence

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices20 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Charitable Contributions: Individual and corporate donations, including cash pledges, securities, real property, trusts, insurance, bequests, and planned giving through Ross Family Legacy Society. Missouri NAP tax credit program offers 50% state tax credits for donations.
2. Government Contracts and Grants: State-funded contracts for foster care services, licensing programs, and specialized interventions (30 Days to Family, Extreme Family Finding, behavioral health services).
3. Social Enterprise - Connect Cafe: Coffee shop and catering service in Kansas City, KS providing job training for foster youth while generating earned revenue. Voted Kansas City Favorite by Kansas City Star for three consecutive years.
4. Sammy's Window Resale: Resale clothing store operation generating revenue while providing affordable clothing options and funding clothing closet programs.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

FosterAdopt Connect operates an integrated suite of free, community-based child welfare services for foster, adoptive, and kinship families across Kansas and Missouri. Programs span licensing, training, clinical and behavioral health therapy, family-finding interventions, transitional housing (Hope Children's Home), advocacy, clothing/food assistance, youth transition support, and social enterprises. All core services are delivered directly to families at no cost, with state-contracted and donor-funded programs supplemented by earned revenue from a coffee shop and resale store.

Product overview

FosterAdopt Connect is a nonprofit social service organization operating as a multi-program platform rather than a single product. The organization provides an integrated suite of child welfare services organized around six core areas: Clinical & Behavioral Health (Behavioral Interventionist, Behavioral Health Membership Program, Clinical Services), Community Support (Advocacy, Respite Care, Sammy's Window Clothing Closet, Support Groups, Training via Thinkific), Family Permanency (30 Days to Family, Extreme Family Finding, Hope Children's Home, Kinship Navigator, Fostering Prevention), Social Enterprises (Connect Cafe, Sammy's Window Resale), Teens & Young Adults (Community Connections YouThrive, Legal Advocacy, YouthConnect Center), and Kansas Programs (Adopt Kansas Kids, Kansas Caregivers Support Network, K-PARC, MATCH Training). The programs are delivered through 17 locations across Kansas and Missouri, with Hope Children's Home serving as a transitional care facility and Connect Cafe functioning as a workforce development social enterprise.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Behavioral Interventionist In-home care service providing focused attention to help children heal and repair behavioral struggles so they can remain in loving homes rather than being placed in institutions or new foster placements. Designed for foster and adoptive families managing complex behavioral needs.
• Behavioral Health Membership Program Sliding-scale monthly membership program delivered in partnership with developmental pediatrician Dr. Michele Kilo through the Thompson Foundation, providing responsive developmental, behavioral health, and mental health treatment for youth in or adopted from foster care in the Kansas City area. Maximum total monthly family fee is $300 with a 10% sibling discount.
• Clinical Services Intensive trauma-focused, brain-based therapy for youth and families with complex trauma histories, delivered by an interdisciplinary team of licensed clinicians through in-home and community-based therapeutic services.
• Advocacy Program Connects foster and adoptive parents to experienced advocates who have navigated the foster care system to address concerns including placement stability, IEP securing, and resource finding.
• Respite Care Temporary relief care for Missouri foster children, providing trained respite providers who care for children on a short-term basis to prevent parental exhaustion and burnout.
• Sammy's Window Clothing Closet Free clothing closet and food pantry providing new or gently used clothing, shoes, hygiene products, diapers, formula, dry goods, books, toys, and school supplies to foster and adoptive families across multiple Missouri and Kansas locations.
• 30 Days to Family Trademarked fast-responding intervention program that connects children to family or friends within the first 30 days of entering foster care. Reported outcomes include 61% of served children showing more positive relationships with their mothers.
• Extreme Family Finding Trademarked intensive detective program using recruiters and private investigators to locate extended family members for children at risk of aging out of foster care. Reports 80% match rate and 90% reconnection with lifelong support.
• Hope Children's Home Transitional house in Jackson, MO where children await appropriate foster placement. Provides nurturing care, meals, clothing, warm bed, and medical, dental, and psychological support along with Comprehensive Emergency Family Care services; 92% of children transition into relative or kin homes and 100% of sibling groups placed together remain together.
• Kinship Navigator One-on-one kinship support program connecting grandparents, relatives, and other caregivers to resources including advocacy, healthcare, finances, transportation, community supports, legal referrals, and educational assistance.
• Community Connections YouThrive (CCYT) Program helping current and former foster youth ages 17-26 navigate adulthood by connecting them to resources in housing, higher education, employment, healthcare, finances, social supports, transportation, and legal advocacy.
• YouthConnect Center Drop-in center in Springfield, MO for school-aged youth 13-18 providing laundry, food pantry, hot meals, clothing, hygiene items, showers, and case management services. Open Monday-Friday 12:30pm-8pm.
• Legal Advocacy Connects current and formerly fostered youth with attorney representation to aid with resolving minor legal issues including traffic violations, landlord/tenant concerns, and other minor criminal infractions.
• Connect Cafe Coffee shop social enterprise in Kansas City, KS providing youth currently or formerly in foster care with work experience, job skills, and soft skills for navigating future employment. Voted Kansas City Favorite by the Kansas City Star for three consecutive years. Open Monday-Friday 7AM-2PM.
• MATCH Training Supplemental training curriculum designed by foster, kinship, and adoptive parents for families interested in or who have adopted from foster care, based on trauma-informed practice and lived experience.
• Foster Parent Licensing Navigation support for becoming a foster parent including resource development advocacy, pre-service training, home study, and ongoing training through a 30-hour Missouri Caregiver and Adoption Resource Education course.
• Parent Support and Prevention (Fostering Prevention) Family support program helping families at risk of losing custody by providing resources in building connections, establishing safety plans, implementing parenting curriculum, and accessing community supports.
• Sammy's Window Resale Resale clothing store in Cape Girardeau, MO generating earned revenue while providing affordable clothing options and supporting the Sammy's Window Clothing Closet program.

Quantifiable outcome

• 80% of children served by Extreme Family Finding are matched with permanency resources
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Brookline Church of ChristminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCommunity partner for Back to School Refuel event in Springfield, MO. Hosting venue and supporting event logistics for distributing school supplies to foster and adoptive children.
• White River Conference Center at Bass ProminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerVenue partner for Road to Home Gala in Springfield, MO. 8th annual event supporting nine programs at Cheri Carter Clark Resource Center.
• Century CasinominorStrategic or Co-development PartnerVenue partner for Midnight in Paris Masquerade Ball in Cape Girardeau, MO. Signature fundraising event supporting Hope Children's Home and Cape Girardeau programs.
• Dr. Michele Kilo / Thompson FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with developmental pediatrician Dr. Michele Kilo through Thompson Foundation bringing responsive medical care to Kansas City area youth in or adopted from foster care. Services include developmental, behavioral health, and mental health treatment through Behavioral Health Membership Program.
• KVC MissouricoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorState-contracted child welfare agency in Missouri. Referrals for foster parent licensing in non-Jackson County areas. Multiple children enter state custody daily and need placement in foster homes.
• COMBAT (Community Backed Anti-Drug Tax)minorOthersJackson County anti-drug initiative supporting foster youth programs through grant funding.
• Churches and Community OrganizationsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCommunity partners hosting family night out programs, respite care events, and church-based support groups including Love Crosses Lines, Medical Parenting, Rookies, Singles, Complex Trauma, and Thriving in Large Families.

Scale indicators12 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Specialized Alternatives for Families and Youth (SAFY): Multi-state child welfare and behavioral health provider offering foster care, adoption and family preservation services — overlapping services with FosterAdopt Connect's permanency and clinical programs.
• Upbring: Texas-based child welfare nonprofit providing foster care, adoption and family services — comparable operating model and service mix, demonstrating regional nonprofit scale.
• Bethany Christian Services: National nonprofit offering foster care, adoption and family support services across many states — broad incumbent with overlapping mission, though historically broader in scope than FosterAdopt Connect.
• Children's Home & Aid: Regional child welfare and family services nonprofit (Midwest and beyond) offering foster care, adoption, behavioral health and kinship support — directly aligned service portfolio with multi-state scale.
• Youth Villages: Large national nonprofit providing residential, behavioral health and family services for at-risk children and youth — overlaps with FosterAdopt Connect's clinical, behavioral intervention, and transition services for foster youth.

Direct peers

• Raise the Future: Iowa/Midwest-focused nonprofit serving foster and adoptive families with family-finding, training and post-adoption support — directly comparable services and regional scope.
• Adopt Kansas Kids: Kansas-focused adoptive and foster family program — peer in target geography and mission, and listed as a Kansas-specific program resource within the FosterAdopt Connect ecosystem.
• Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition: St. Louis-based nonprofit that originally developed the 30 Days to Family and Extreme Recruitment/Extreme Family Finding program models now run by FosterAdopt Connect — most comparable peer on program design, mission, and target population.
• KVC Health Systems: State-contracted child welfare agency operating across Missouri and Kansas, providing foster care placement, case management and family services — directly comparable as the contracted counterparty that routes referrals into FosterAdopt Connect's licensing programs.

Others

• National Council For Adoption: National advocacy and membership organization for adoption and foster care — adjacent as an ecosystem participant and policy influencer rather than a direct service competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/fosteradopt_org
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@fosteradoptconnect
• Facebookfacebook.com/FosterAdoptConnect
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/fosteradoptconnect
• Instagraminstagram.com/fosteradoptconnect/?hl=en

Compliance1 record

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Profiles5 records

Subsidiaries4 records

Funding overview

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