Mid-America Adoption & Navigation Exchange combines AI-assisted matching with licensed human recruiters to help agencies discover promising connections across regions.
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Agencies add anonymized information about children and licensed families. Personally identifiable information stays with the organization that collected it. Privacy is everything.
Secure information intake
Only matching criteria enter the platform
Child profile C-184
Strengths, needs, region
Family profile F-218
Capacity, experience, region
Anonymized matching record
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AI-assisted matching searches the shared pool, then licensed human recruiters review promising connections before they reach your agency. The system proposes; people decide.
Proposed connections
Agency review queue · 3 suggestions
Possible connection: Child in Decatur, IL may be a good fit for licensed family profile F-218. Read more
Possible connection: Child in Toledo, OH may be a good fit for licensed family profile F-104. Read more
Possible connection: Child in Rockford, IL may be a good fit for licensed family profile F-327. Read more
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When both agencies see a reason to continue, Mid-America Adoption & Navigation Exchange opens a controlled introduction between their recruiters. Each organization decides what to share and when.
Controlled introduction
Connection C-184 · F-218
Child's recruitment agency
Controls child information
Family's recruitment agency
Controls family information
Introduction accepted by both agencies
Recruiters can now begin a private conversation. Identifying details remain with the organization that collected them until it chooses to share.
AI-assisted matching with humans in the loop
Mid-America Adoption & Navigation Exchange continually evaluates anonymized, non-identifying information and surfaces possibilities for adoption recruiters to review. The system recommends; people decide.
AI-assisted match review
AI evaluates
Anonymized child and family information across a larger pool.
Recruiters review
Professional experience determines whether a possibility deserves follow-up.
Organizations connect
A controlled introduction starts the human conversation between jurisdictions.
Privacy and data ownership
Each participating organization keeps control of the identifying information it collects. Mid-America Adoption & Navigation Exchange uses anonymized, non-identifying information to surface possible matches.
No identifying details are saved in our database or enter the shared matching layer.
Cross-region collaboration
A bigger pool of participating agencies creates more opportunities for permanency between families and the children who need them.
