The 440K Project, Inc. was named to reflect the 440,000 children in foster care in the United States. From the beginning, the intent was clear: every child should be represented in the name of an organization committed to caring about each individual life.
Effective change requires recognizing that children and youth face different realities at different stages.
For the first cohort, aged-out youth between 18 and 22, we are developing an AI app to help them find immediate services such as free and low-cost housing, food, and healthcare; resume development and job opportunities; and more.
We are working on other initiatives as well to help them get started in independent living.
The second cohort, 111,000 children aged 0–17 who are available for adoption, requires a promotional campaign designed to encourage people to build their families through adoption.
If we can get the number of kids from 111,000 to zero, no child will age-out at 18 to fend for themselves on the street; instead, each will be part of a family.
The third cohort, children in the system, needs to be addressed through partnership with other foster care organizations and state agencies to redesign the way the system works for better outcomes.
The 440K Project is focused on practical solutions for youth who need help now, public-facing efforts that reduce the number of children waiting for adoption, and collaborative redesign of the broader foster care system.
Our goal is not simply to call attention to the crisis. It is to help create better outcomes, child by child, family by family, and system by system.
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