CarePortal Makes it Easy to Help Families in Crisis

CarePortal, a Kansas City-based care-sharing portal that addresses the urgent CarePortal needs of families in crisis, announced that it has served more than 500,000 children and caregivers through the platform’s Care-Sharing technology, showcasing CarePortal’s impact.

“Half a million people served isn’t just a number,” Founder and President Adrien Lewis said. “It’s half a million stories of dignity restored, of isolation interrupted, of hope reignited. It’s evidence of what’s possible when people motivated by love are put in position to serve.”

What began as a simple idea — that neighbors would help if they only knew how — has grown into a movement involving churches, caseworkers, and community support programs, as everyday people step in to serve their most vulnerable neighbors. From providing essential items and home repairs to preventing family separation and supporting grandparents raising grandchildren, each request met represents not just a physical need fulfilled but an opportunity for a meaningful connection that turns help into hope.

At the heart of CarePortal’s growth is a vision to mainstream Care-Sharing: using simple, secure technology to connect vetted needs from child-serving professionals with real-time responses from nearby community members. Case workers identify needs and post them in the system. People close by are notified and empowered to respond, often within hours.

Currently active in 38 states and thousands of communities, CarePortal has facilitated more than 136,000 unique requests being met, keeping children out of foster care, strengthening biological families, and supporting vulnerable families, kinship caregivers and uplifting kids in foster care.

“Connection changes everything,” Lewis said. “It changes the story for a child on the brink. It gives a single mom the community she longs for. And it shows the world that loving your neighbor isn’t something the church just talks about — it’s something we do.”

CarePortal is committed to scaling the Care-Sharing movement by fostering innovation, building partnerships and equipping communities to respond with courage and compassion. For more information, visit www.careportal.org.

–Dwight Widaman