Your foster child is in the hospital. Your caseworker isn't answering. Who do you call?
The Foster Care Phone Book lists the whole team — the worker, their supervisor, and the people beside them — for every county in America.
Why this book exists
A seven-year-old girl in our foster home needed boils from an infection lanced at the emergency room. The doctor couldn't numb her. Pain relief for a foster child needed her caseworker's approval — and her caseworker was one overworked person with one phone number. No supervisor's number. No second number. Nobody else to call.
So they cut, and she was awake for all of it.
I came home from work and heard what happened. I work on computers for a living. I said never again — and that night I built the book the foster child needed: every worker, their supervisor, and the people beside them, so a call can always find a human.
No child should be cut open without numbing because a phone rang into nothing.
The Solution
- Pick your state and county.
- Find your worker.
- If they don't answer, call their supervisor — or a peer on their team. Every name is one tap from the next call.
The call connects. A supervisor answers. The approval happens.
It ran for years, kept current by the agencies themselves: Clark County's whole department — 1,597 people. Florida's associations, Eckerd, Lutheran Services. Then it went quiet. Now it's back — all 50 states and DC, every county, tribal programs included: 2,995 areas, 2,510 agencies, 9,746 people listed.
Your page is already here. Claim it.
Your staff are listed — agency workers, supervisors, whole teams. Claim your page, keep it current, and upload your people's photos — so a caregiver with a stranger at the door can match the face in front of them against the photo you published, and call the number next to it.
And the book is not fully public. Your agency can restrict photos and contact details to authorized emails only — who sees your people is your call.
Free to agencies. There is no paid tier, and no premium version waiting behind this one.
Because no child should be cut open without numbing over an outdated spreadsheet.
National Contacts
National Foster Parent Association (NFPA)
Support, training, and advocacy for foster, kinship, and adoptive families.
Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline
Crisis counselors who can help you think through a concern about a child and connect you to your state reporting line.
988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
Free, confidential support for anyone in emotional distress or a mental-health or substance-use crisis — or worried about a loved one.