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The help exists. Finding it is the problem.

Bridge is a plain list of real places that help young adults leaving foster care, across seven Northeast Ohio counties. Free, no sign-in, nothing saved about you.

319
resources listed
317
organizations
$0
cost to use, always

Why this exists

When you age out of foster care, support that took years to build disappears in a day. The services that could help you mostly already exist, but they are scattered across dozens of agencies and websites, and none of them tell you the thing you actually need to know: whether you can just walk in, or whether there is a step first.

We talked to people who have spent decades on this. What we heard was consistent. The resources are there. Every tool built to help people find them has either gone stale, buried youth services under results meant for someone else, or shut down when the funding ran out.

What we do differently

We say what happens before you callEvery listing shows whether it is free, whether you need a referral first, and who it is for. That is the part a search engine cannot tell you.
Every listing carries a dateYou can see when each one was last checked, and whether the check was against the organization's own website or confirmed by the organization itself. A stale listing tells you it is stale instead of pretending.
We keep nothing about youNo account, no sign-in, no age check. We do not record who you are or what you searched for, and nothing you type is stored.
We do not run the servicesBridge sends you to the organizations that do the work. We are a map, not a provider.

Why not just ask a chatbot

You can, and it will give you an answer instantly. The problem is that it cannot tell you which parts are still true. A general chatbot will name a shelter that closed in 2023, give you a number that rings out, or invent a program that sounds exactly like one that should exist. It has no way to say "I checked this on a Tuesday and it was real."

That gap does not matter much when you are asking for a recipe. It matters a lot when you are 19, it is late, and you have one phone call left in you. Being sent to a closed building is worse than being told nothing, because it costs you the trip and the nerve it took to go.

So the answers here come only from a list we maintain. Bridge will tell you it does not know rather than guess, and every listing carries the date it was last checked. The links are the easy part. Knowing which ones still work is the whole job.

What this is not

This is not an emergency service. We do not provide housing, legal advice, medical care, or crisis counseling. If you need someone right now, call 988, call 911 if you are in danger, or dial 211 to reach a person who will help you look.

We also cannot investigate an organization. If something about how you were treated felt wrong, tell us on that resource's page and a person on our team will read it, but we are not a regulator.

Who built it

Bridge is built by Student Civic Leaders, five high school students in Solon, Ohio, working under Maya's Way. The community voted on what we should build, and 113 people chose this.

The site was designed and built by Jonathan Parran, Chief AI Officer. The catalog, the partner outreach and the verification work behind every listing are the cohort's, alongside Maya's Way and the Northeast Ohio organizations who told us what was actually missing.

If a listing is wrong, or something you needed is missing, tell us. That is how this gets better.

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