Ideas for Hack Foster Care Silicon Valley Summit 2017
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This document outlines plans for a hackathon event focused on developing tools to better recruit and match foster families and youth. It notes that there are more foster youth needing placement than available host families. The goals are to 1) identify optimal profiles of caregivers and families to assist with more targeted recruitment, and 2) develop a match suggestion tool that considers a youth's interests, needs, and a family's profile to find better placements. The hackathon aims to build volunteer-driven applications and solutions to address these issues over a two day event.
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Ideas for Hack Foster Care Silicon Valley Summit 2017
- 1. Hack Foster Care Youth FEBRUARY 27-28, 2017 MICROSOFT MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA
- 2. Recruit Optimal Families: Situation Much more foster youth than host families Number of foster youth: 400K+ Number of host family placement is far less. Number of host families with enough resources even smaller. Belief: our local community has homes with enough resources. Gap: No tool to recruit families that are best suited for the unique needs of Foster Youths.
- 3. Recruit Optimal Families: Pain points Lack of funds to increase awareness Hard to to target right audience Lack of channels to connect right audience
- 4. Recruit Optimal Families: Goals Develop a system to Identify the attributes/segments of the optimal profiles of caregivers, families and supporters. Assist agencies in more targeted recruitment efforts.
- 5. Home Matching: Values A good match between a child and family is key difference between having a child survive and thrive.
- 6. Home Matching: Situation Getting every Foster Youth a family that sets them up for long-term happiness is not easy, even when placements are available. Case workers often have very little to go on to find the right fit. The default is to look for homes with capacity within a certain geographic area. Not prioritize youth's interests, social or educational requirements or special needs.
- 7. Home Matching: Goals Develop a match suggestion tool. This tool can be accessed after a family or social worker is assigned a case and suggests matches based on the youth’s and the family’s unique profiles. Build a group of volunteers. This hack is still in the very early stages of development - Front-end application developers, data science folks, and others who are willing to build this from the ground up are in great need. We hope you help to make this vision a reality.
- 8. Volunteer Hacker Resources Silicon Valley events: http://www.hackfostercare.org Hackathon site: http://www.hackfostercare.org LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13507515 Twitter: https://twitter.com/hackfostercare Github: https://github.com/hackfostercare Data sets: Data.gov Hhs.gov
- 9. Example Apps LinkedIn For Good Youth Program Develop skills and access to economic opportunities Career Village Q&A Yours? E.g. Family matching site for foster kids and hosting families.
Editor's Notes
- Recruit Optimal Families We believe that placing Foster Youth in stable homes that have enough resources to provide a good quality of life is essential. We believe our local community has homes that meet these requirements and that we can build a tool that will help to recruit families that are best suited for the unique needs of Foster Youths. BACKGROUND: Currently, there are not enough suitable families supporting Foster Youth. While every family who wants to be part of the foster community is a blessing, a high percentage of foster parents live below the poverty line. Practically speaking, these families are less equipped to handle the burdens that can come with raising a foster child. What's more, there are more foster children entering the system than there are suitable homes to place them in. While there are many reasons for this, one of the biggest is that agencies don't have funds for broad-scale awareness and recruitment and even if they have determined the right target audience, they are not aware how/where to connect with them. GOAL: This hack will develop a system to identify the attributes and segments that make up the optimal profiles for care givers, families and supporters and develop a way to assist agencies in more targeted recruitment efforts. Please sign up and partner with the Department of Family and Children’s Services to help improve Foster Family recruitment.
- Home Matching We believe that every child deserves a family and finding a good match, whether for short-term foster care placement or matching for permanency and adoption, is the difference between having a child survive and having a child thrive. BACKGROUND: Getting every Foster Youth a family that sets them up for long-term happiness is not easy, even when placements are available. Case workers often have very little to go on to find the right fit. The default is to look for homes with capacity within a certain geographic area. The notion of matching based on the youth's interests, social or educational requirements, special needs, is not one that many social workers have time to do. GOAL: This hack aims to develop a tool that can be accessed after a family or social worker is assigned a case and suggests matches based on the youth’s and the family’s unique profiles. This hack is still in the very early stages of development - Front-end application developers, data science folks, and others who are willing to build this from the ground up are in great need. We hope you help to make this vision a reality.