3. BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY AND CHILD WELFARE
GOAL: Generate ideas and develop tools that will help social workers, foster youth, and caregivers receive and offer a higher level of care.
250 attendees:
technology companies
government agencies
non-profits
foster parents
foster youth together

4. DESIGN THINKING IS USED TO SOLVE
WICKED PROBLEMS
DESIGN THINKING IS USED TO SOLVE
Complex Human Problems with well defined inputs and outputs

6. #HFC Commitments 1 Laptop Campaign GOAL:
Access to a laptop for every foster youth (ages 16-21) in CA.
10,000 Laptops
iFoster: To date has secured 2500 laptops (25% of their goal) and committing to reach 50% in 2018
Ticket To Dream: 400 Laptops Donated
Google: 200 Laptops Donated for kids in the SVCF/TeenForce STEM program
Microsoft: 9,000 Windows and Office licenses to iFoster to date, and will be donating software on every refurbished device distributed to foster youth
Walter S. Johnson: Committed as a fiscal sponsor to support the laptop campaign, distribution & evaluation

7. Foster Parent Onboarding & Home Matching
#HFC Commitments
Foster Parent Onboarding & Home Matching
The “Recruit Optimal Families” Hack Team is creating a strategy using LinkedIn technology to reach and recruit Foster Parents
Salesforce is developing a platform that can improve the onboarding process for foster families

8. #HFC Commitments Education and Jobs
Silicon Valley Children's Fund (SVCF) is committed to working with all 7 SCC community colleges to ensure that they have dedicated foster youth supports on campus.
TeenForce and SVCF is committed to bringing STEM training and Paid Internships to high school foster youth in Santa Clara County; 70 internship for 2017 and 100 for 2018.
Foster care alumni, Johnny Madrid and Brandy Wright will create a LinkedIn network of foster alumni professionals and will invite all the FY participants of #HFC and their networks.

9. Silicon Valley Community Leadership Group Commitments
#HFC Commitments
Silicon Valley Community Leadership Group Commitments
Silicon Valley Leadership Group has committed a strategic branding partnership with Hack Foster Care that includes publicity support, introductions to key member companies, hosting a STEM internship and contributions to One Laptop.
Junior League of San Jose made a 3 year strategic commitment to support Transitional Age Foster Youth, offering grant funding and volunteer support.

10. #HFC Commitments Legal Hacks
Legal team is working with the Stanford Design School to use text messaging as a notification tool for upcoming court dates.
Legal team is committed to working with Adobe to summarize and uncover trends in juvenile court documents to collect important data.

11. #HFC Commitments Data to Drive Change
Think of Us is developing an evidence-informed coaching app which provides young people with interactive videos, self-coaching activities, and planning tools to help them identify and set personal goals, while also providing a framework to achieve them. TofU will partnership with SVCF and DFCS to run a pilot with 20 SCC foster youth.
Led by foster care alumni, FYsociety is a professional software company that equips child welfare stakeholders with a one-stop shop for comprehensive data services, including constant and timely access to new and existing datasets which are downloadable, refreshable, visually-accessible, and user-friendly. FYsociety is committed to working with NGO and Child Welfare to collect data needed to launch this app in

12. Recruit Optimal Families Hack Team
LinkedIn Engineer
Former Foster Youth
Nonprofit
Foster Parent
DFCS Engineer
RFA Social Worker
Foundation
CASA

13. Recruit Optimal Families Hack
Problem:
There are not enough qualified, prospective foster parents to meet the needs of foster youth. Additionally, DFCS has limited resources with 3 recruiters (in the field), responsible for 1,000,000 people in Santa Clara County and covering 1300 square miles.
Solution:
Leverage existing technology platforms, specifically LinkedIn, to reach a larger, more targeted, professional pool of potential foster parents.

14. LinkedIn Strategy
STEP 1: Search for passive candidates using predictive analytics to create a more targeted approach for potential candidates STEP 2: Advertise Foster Parent Opportunities to candidates from search results STEP 3: Create and Manage Community Groups STEP 4: Promote Marketing Tools, such as Online Learning Forums

15. Next Steps
DFCS Recruiters are being trained by a LinkedIn professional on how to use the platform effectively and efficiently
Work with MIG, branding consultant for DFCS, to solidify messaging for recruitment
Get approval from DFCS to test the strategy
Implement strategy, evaluate results and track data