Connecting foster youth to meaningful careers through technology and partnership.
Foster Careers brings foster youth, foster-serving organizations, training providers, and supportive-service partners together through one connected workforce platform. The goal is simple: make it easier for young people transitioning from foster care to move from support to preparation, employment, and long-term career stability.
Young adults transitioning from foster care often have to navigate career opportunities, training, services, and support through disconnected programs and systems. The organizations helping them may also lack a shared way to coordinate services, follow progress, and measure outcomes.
Foster Careers helps close that gap by connecting the people, resources, and opportunities surrounding each participant in one place.
Foster Careers is donating Workforce Manager, a workforce development platform, to foster-serving organizations. The platform gives agencies and their partners a shared foundation for helping youth access support, prepare for employment, connect with employers, and progress toward meaningful careers.
This is more than a technology donation. Foster Careers combines the platform with ongoing development support and a growing network of organizations committed to improving career outcomes for foster youth.
Bring youth, agencies, employers, training providers, and supportive service partners into one coordinated network.
Help participants access mentorship, training, resources, and services that address barriers to employment.
Build skills, experience, and readiness for meaningful career opportunities.
Follow each participant’s progress from intake and preparation to placement, retention, and continued growth.
Foster Careers is not intended to replace the work agencies already do. It gives organizations a shared technology platform that can strengthen coordination, improve visibility, and help partners work from the same information. This technology:
At LCPtracker, we believe access to work creates stronger communities.
That’s why we support Foster Careers—by providing the workforce technology to:
This partnership brings together LCPtracker’s experience in workforce technology and Foster Careers’ mission to create stronger career pathways for youth transitioning from the foster care system.
Creating lasting career pathways requires agencies, employers, training providers, supportive-service organizations, mentors, donors, and community partners working together. Whether you serve foster youth, provide training or support, offer career opportunities, or want to invest in the mission, there is a place for you in the Foster Careers network.
Foster Careers is a nonprofit, technology-enabled workforce initiative that connects foster youth and the organizations supporting them to meaningful career pathways.
Workforce Manager is the shared technology platform used to connect participants, agencies, employers, training providers, and supportive-service partners; coordinate workforce activities, and track progress and outcomes.
Foster Careers is designed for foster youth ages 18-24, foster-serving organizations, employers, training providers, supportive-service organizations, mentors, donors, and community partners.
Foster Careers donates the Workforce Manager platform and provides ongoing development support so organizations can strengthen coordination, connect participants to opportunities, and improve visibility into program outcomes.
Employers can share career opportunities, engage with workforce partners, and help create pathways to meaningful employment and long-term career growth.
LCPtracker provides the workforce technology that powers the initiative, helping participating organizations connect people, coordinate programs, and track outcomes over time.
Organizations and individuals can participate by providing services, training, mentorship, employment opportunities, funding, or community partnerships. Visit the Foster Careers website to learn more, or contact us directly at [email protected].
