Questions, answered.
The short version of what Fostr is, who it's for, and how to see it for yourself. Move your cursor around up here while you're at it.
Record a visit once, on your agency's own form. Fostr fills in details the record already holds, like the child's name and date of birth. It also carries some answers onto your agency's other forms, such as monthly and court reports. It does not send anything to a state system, or file anything with a court or any other authority for you.
Child-welfare and foster-care agencies and their caseworkers. We work with agencies, not with individuals.
Not with real records yet. Agencies can try a demonstration that is set up for made-up records only. Real records come only after an agency signs a written agreement with us.
Pick the child and the form. Fostr fills in what the record already knows, and you answer the rest. Type your notes, or write them with Apple Pencil in our iPad app, which is still in testing and not yet available to agencies. Fostr turns your handwriting into text for you to check. Fostr won't let you save or sign a form until every required question has an answer.
Not directly. It does not connect to a state system or to other case software, so it does not keep them in sync. We set it up with your agency's own forms, so finished documents look the way they do today. Answers Fostr drafts or copies for you can be undone in one step before you save. Once a record is signed, it is sealed and can't be changed.
Yes, to write drafts. When a worker asks, Fostr fills in answers drafted from that worker's own notes. Each one shows the notes it came from, and none becomes part of the record until the worker saves the form. Fostr also drafts a short summary of each child's record, marked for workers to check. With real records, drafting will run only on Amazon Bedrock, an AI service from Amazon Web Services, in the United States; that isn't switched on yet. Our demonstration, which is set up for made-up records only, uses Anthropic's AI service directly. No AI model is trained on your data.
When Fostr drafts answers from a worker's notes, each draft shows the notes it came from. Fostr drops any draft that doesn't point back to them. No draft becomes part of the record until the worker saves the form. Before the record is filed in Fostr, the worker confirms it is complete and accurate and signs it. Once signed, the record is sealed and can't be changed, and Fostr's audit log records who did what. Whether a court accepts a document is up to the court.
Fostr runs in a web browser. Our iPad app is built and in testing, but it isn't available to agencies yet. If you have questions about devices, talk to us.
No. Fostr fills in what the record already knows, so there's less to write, but caseworkers still write their own notes, check each form and sign it. The work and the judgment stay theirs.
Book 30 minutes with Jaden. He'll walk you through it.
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