Stop losing your foster parents.

Every foster parent is precious. Homeward Circle shows you exactly where foster and kinship families drop off on the way to certification, and supports them in the years that follow. Your families get a clear path and other parents to walk it with.

Sign up See where families drop off
Built for directors, foster parent supervisors, recruiters and trainers
For child-placing agencies
“Oriented” Badge earned · shared with your circle
The path home · Day 43
Hi Maria, here’s where your family is.
“I want a kid to know someone showed up.”
Your why · saved day 1
Target licensure date November 15 47 days to go
Orientation & training
Screening You are here
Home study
Certification
Placement
Milestone · Background checks
CPS central registry
State criminal history
FBI fingerprint check
One step from the “Cleared” badge

You didn’t lose them because they stopped caring.

A family calls, ready to open their home. Then the months stretch on: orientation, training hours, references, home studies, background checks. Eventually the calls stop coming back.

They gave up because the process is long, lonely, and often has no visible finish line.

Most agencies can name the number of families they lose, but almost none know exactly how it happens.

Every drop splits into withdrew here versus still working on it.

From first inquiry to first placement, and the years after.

Each family’s record starts at its inquiry date. From there you see how many of the families who start reach certification, how many days pass between certification and a first placement, and how many certified families are still waiting for one.

Then the years after: how many are still fostering 12 and 24 months later, how many adopted or took guardianship, how many transferred to another agency, and why the others chose to stop.

Sample data.

Give families a roadmap for your agency’s process.

Your agency’s certification process, drawn in phases you name, reorder, and delete yourself. Every parent opens the app to the same map: where they stand, what’s next, how far they have already come.

Inside every phase sit milestones such as background checks, references, and the home study. Inside every milestone are the steps your staff verify one by one. When the last step verifies, the family earns a badge, like “Oriented”, “Trained”, or “First Placement”.

Both parents in a household see the same roadmap.

The path alone isn’t enough.

Parents supporting parents

Your agency builds a circle around each household: staff, Champion families who have already been through it, and other foster families. A foster family whose only support is the caseworker is an island. In a circle it has other parents to ask, and a place to talk through the hard topics from training.

A circle can also carry your announcements: your staff post, and parents read and react.

Champion Staff moderator

Every circle is private to its members and sits behind a confidentiality agreement. Message content is encrypted at rest, and anything a parent flags reaches the moderators you name.

The paperwork, finally legible

Every step, from background checks to training sessions to home-study visits, gets verified by your staff as they work it. Families see each step checked off and each badge earned, and that keeps them going. The requirements stop being a wall of unknowns.

On Binti
Official licensing progress mirrors in read-only, so there is no second checklist to keep.
Not on Binti
Your staff track every step in Homeward Circle itself.

See who’s stalling while there’s still time to reach them.

Homeward Circle flags every family that has gone quiet, so you can reach the one sitting a single step short of a badge. The withdrawal report names the exact milestone families get stuck on, so you can change that part of the path and get more families approved.

Directors see how many of the families who start reach certification, and how many are still fostering 12 and 24 months later.

Recruiters watch inquiries become licensed families instead of dropped leads.

Trainers see which milestone a family stalled on and reach them before the group moves on.

Foster parent supervisors moderate circles, act on flags, and spot the families going quiet.

How Homeward Circle protects what families share.

Families tell their circles real things.

Circle message content is encrypted at rest, and every read of sensitive data is audited. Every staff member signs in with a phishing-resistant passkey instead of a password; parents get an app-level biometric lock on their phone.

Your agency’s data exports as a spreadsheet whenever you ask. Circle conversations are left out of that export on purpose, so they can’t be passed around.

You will not find a “HIPAA compliant” stamp here, because no vendor can promise that on your behalf. What we offer is the architecture above, and a Business Associate Agreement on the Enterprise plan for agencies handling PHI.

Start small. Grow when your families do.

Every plan includes the whole product: the phased roadmap, milestones and badges, circles, reports, the family mobile app, and the coordinator console. Plans differ in family limits and support.

Free For small programs getting started Most agencies Standard For growing agencies Enterprise For large & multi-site agencies
Families Up to 15 Up to 50 Custom
Staff accounts 1 Unlimited Unlimited
Support Email support · within 3 business days Email support · next business day Priority same-day support & guided onboarding
Billing Free $249 per month, self-serve Annual contract & invoicing
HIPAA Business Associate Agreement — — Available for agencies handling PHI

A family is one household. One or two parent accounts count as a single family. Contact us for Enterprise pricing with PHI handling.

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