AI Speeds Up Adoptions, Saves Time for Families

0:00It's April 28th. This is Tampa Bay News Today, local news powered by AI. Artificial intelligence is stepping into child adoptions to make the process faster. A company called Binti just wrote out AI tools to help license more families quicker. An agency in Polk County, Florida, called Heartland for Children, is one of the first to test it in a pilot program. The story hits home with folks like Ken Burley and Dwayne Berger, who adopted Little Jackson last November. They knew his biological family from the start, took him in temporarily, and stepped up fully after his mom passed. But the paperwork grind was real agencies kept asking for the same income docs and forms over and over. Heartland serves over 1,500 kids across three counties, and their case workers already used Binti's tech to cut down on that. Repeditive hassle, adoption specialist Sabrina Clemen says it speeds up home studies so they can move on to the next family faster. Now with Binti AI, things get even smoother handling transcription, docs and info polls automatically.

1:05Social workers report up to 75% time savings on home studies. Binti works with over 550 agencies in 37 states, covering nearly half the nation's foster and adoptive kids. Clemens figures the AI will free up even more hours for real face time, with families like the burgers, who couldn't be happier with their new son. This tech push means more kids finding forever homes without the endless red tape holding things back.