Abide
Foster Care · Wearable Care · Systems Change
A safe presence every foster child can trust
A wearable device, care check-ins, and a secure dashboard that connects each child’s signals to the people who can act on them.
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THE COST OF INACTION
$4.1B
lifetime cost for each year’s group
of youth aging out of foster care
Homelessness by 26
4 in 10
have experienced homelessness by age 26
Jobs at 26
46%
are employed, vs. 80% of their peers
Earnings at 26
1 in 2
workers earn $9,000 or less a year
OUR CONVICTION
These are not just foster kids
Caring about a foster child is not the same as knowing what they need. The teacher, the nurse, the caseworker each see part of the picture. Abide bridges those gaps so the people who care can finally act on what they know.
THE APPROACH
Signal, context, response
A wearable device reads physiological signals. Check-ins add context. The dashboard connects the right person, automatically, every time.
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Physical signal
A wearable reads the child’s physiological state: heart rate variability, skin response, and movement. It flags when something needs attention.
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Contextual check-in
Age-appropriate play-based check-ins add context. Is the child distressed, or just scared by a movie? The signal gets understood, not just recorded.
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Human response
The right person is notified and follows through. Concern resolved: the cycle ends. Unresolved: a real person follows up, as urgently as needed.
WHOLE-CHILD CARE
Safety is only the beginning
Abide connects every domain of a child’s life into one care history: portable, private, and always theirs.
WRAPAROUND CARE
Safety is only the beginning
Whole-child care includes nutrition, sleep, physical health, mental health, therapies, and medication oversight. We advocate for and connect separate services, with one child experiencing all of them together.
BELONGING
Belonging happens when people keep showing up
Birth families, kinship caregivers, foster parents, teachers, neighbors, and faith communities, connected as a circle around each child. We build that circle where it does not yet exist.
CARE HISTORY
One connected record that travels with them
Every device reading, check-in, medical record, and caregiver note stored in a HIPAA-compliant health wallet held off-chain. Accessible only by a GAL or court order. The child never retells their story to a new caregiver.
THE INCENTIVE
Flipping the incentive
Today: support payments increase as a child’s behavior deteriorates. The system inadvertently rewards decline.
With Abide: caregivers earn more when a child improves from their own baseline. Money follows healing, not crisis.
JOIN THE MISSION
We can’t do it alone any more than these children can
Join us in building something proven, lasting, and healing.