Where we cover, and how sure we are
Generated from the resource database. Last record confirmed or sourced: Sept 15.
26
confirmed by phone
51
from source, not yet rung
1
county covered
2
held back, not shown
What the numbers mean
Confirmed by phone. Somebody rang the number, spoke to a person, and checked the hours, the ages served and what it costs. The card says “Confirmed by phone” with the date. This is the only figure we describe as verified.
From source. The details were read off the organisation's own website or a county resource sheet on a recorded date, and nobody has rung them yet. The card says so and tells the young person to call ahead. These are live because a number from the county's own page beats no number at all; they are labelled because that is not the same as checked.
Held back. No source could be found, or two sources disagreed. Not shown to anyone until someone calls.
13 statewide and national lines work in every North Carolina county and are shown everywhere.
Counties
A county counts as covered when Foster Compass holds local records there — resources whose own service area is that county or a city in it — in at least 2 different kinds of need. A statewide or regional phone line reaching into a county does not make it covered, and one local record does not either.
| County | Status | Local records | Confirmed | Kinds of need with records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Durham County | Not yet (one kind of need only) | 1 | 1 |
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| Johnston County | Not yet (one kind of need only) | 1 | 0 |
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| Mecklenburg County | Not yet (one kind of need only) | 1 | 0 |
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| Wake County | Covered | 58 | 17 |
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Every other North Carolina county sees the statewide and national lines, and is told plainly that there is nothing local yet.
The documented gaps
Needs that young people leaving foster care have, for which no checked resource could be found. Each was searched the same way, and each is stated as “could not be found” unless the absence was confirmed. The full Gap Report gives what was checked and what would close each one.
“I'm pregnant and I have nowhere to sleep tonight.”
Nothing found that answers the question as asked. No Wake County shelter's own page addresses pregnancy at all — not to include it and not to exclude it. The answer a young person gets is a general shelter intake and a prenatal clinic, on separate cards, with nothing that joins them.
Open · first noted Sept 3
“Where can I get fentanyl test strips?”
No source of fentanyl test strips in Wake County could be found that a young person could walk into or call.
Open · first noted Sept 3
“I need a lawyer for something that isn't a crime — my records, a lease, my benefits.”
General civil legal aid exists and is in the database. No civil legal service specific to young people who are in, or have left, foster care could be found that is reachable from Wake County.
Open · first noted Sept 3
“I need a car seat for my baby and I can't pay for one.”
No free car seat source in Wake County could be found. The one diaper-and-supplies programme in the database lists diapers, wipes and books only.
Open · first noted Sept 3
“I need formula and WIC isn't enough this month.”
No formula assistance beyond WIC could be found.
Open · first noted Sept 3
“Is there an AA or NA meeting for people my age?”
No young people's AA or NA meeting in Wake County could be found on the published lists.
Open · first noted Sept 3
“I need somewhere to sleep where being gay or trans isn't going to be a problem.”
No LGBTQ-affirming bed — shelter, host home or transitional unit — in Wake County could be found. The evidence is stronger than a normal empty search, because two of the three sources read are LGBTQ organisations describing their own region. The LGBTQ Center of Durham's Host Home Program, the most-cited LGBTQ housing option in the Triangle, appears nowhere on that organisation's current website; its status is unknown, not confirmed closed.
Open · first noted Sept 2
“I'm 17 and pregnant. Is there a programme for me?”
No Adolescent Parenting Program was found in Wake County. The state model operates in Johnston, Orange, Cumberland and Franklin counties. It may exist in Wake and be unlisted.
Open · first noted Sept 3
“I'm 16. Can I actually use any of this without a guardian signing something?”
Ages 16 and 17 are thinly covered in every category. Almost no organisation publishes a minimum age, and the guardian-consent question is unanswered for shelters, transit passes, legal aid and treatment alike. The one published answer found is a wall: the Youth GoPass requires parental or guardian consent — a hard blocker for exactly this population. Foster Compass now records guardian_consent_required on each record, and it is empty for every one of them, because nobody has established the answer.
Partly open · first noted Sept 3
How to check any of this
Every card in the product carries the same provenance line this page is built from, and /api/health reports the confirmed, from-source and held-back counts live. If a number here and a card disagree, the card is wrong and we want to know: contact@fostercompass.org.