by Ismael M. Belkoura, Fort Worth Report
December 16, 2025
ACH Child and Family Services partnered with a national tech company to streamline its child adoption process.
The Tarrant County nonprofit began working with Binti, a child welfare software company, at the end of November.
The partnership with the San Francisco-based company will improve ACH Child and Family Services’s prelicensing process and help families get screened quicker, said Valerie Garcia, director of foster care and adoption for the nonprofit.
“It will be a bit more convenient for them to complete the documentation required to become a foster parent,” Garcia said.
Before the partnership, foster and adoption proceedings included filling out forms either online or by hand and sending them to ACH staff.
Through Binti’s licensing module — likened by Binti CEO and co-founder Felicia Curcuru as a “TurboTax” fast way to becoming a foster adoptive family — the process is centralized, making it simpler for the agency and families.
Rene Rodriguez, recruitment and placement supervisor, said applicants can track their applications in real time and upload photos and documents from their phone.
“If we can get these families licensed to either be foster parents or adoptive parents, that leaves us more time for recruitment, to go out there into the community and do panels and do meet-and-greets and do events where we recruit them to come in,” Rodriguez said.
ACH hopes the partnership will encourage more people to foster or adopt, Rodriguez said.
Binti began in 2017 and looked to digitize the adoption and foster screening process nationwide.
Curcuru started the company because of the complicated steps her sister went through to adopt two children. Many child welfare companies have antiquated databases to track families they work with, and Binti automates an already complicated system for agencies, she said.
“We’re trying to be the first real software that isn’t just software that helps you enter data for reporting, but it actually helps you do your job,” Curcuru said. “It saves you time. It gets rid of all the manual steps.”
Binti serves 47% of the children in care nationwide through partnerships with 550 agencies across 36 states and Washington, D.C. Through the company’s self-reported data, agencies that partner with Binti see a 30% increase in foster and adoptive parent approval, up to 40% time saved for social workers and an 18% reduction in days for family approval.
ACH is the first company headquartered in Tarrant County to work with Binti. The tech corporation has partnerships with two other foster and adoption businesses in North Texas, according to a Binti spokesperson.
Ismael M. Belkoura is the health reporter for the Fort Worth Report. Contact him at ismael.belkoura@fortworthreport.org.
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