Founding Families

Among the first families to shape care where you live

Founding Families are the first to bring iCaria Together to a new community. You help shape the local network and the product itself, and your place as a founder stays with you.

Built for your community, with your community.

A small founding cohort. Limited seats in each community.

Claim your founding seat

An older parent and their adult child welcomed into a warm, trusted care community

What it means to be a Founding Family

A real voice in where iCaria goes

You help shape the services, the local network, and the product itself. Your feedback is not a survey we file away. It changes what we build.

Recognized as a founder in your community

You are a Founding Family where you live. It is a standing that stays with you, not a one-time promotion.

A hand in getting it right

You help us get it right for the families who come after you, and you help trusted care take root where you live.

What Founding Families receive

A permanent founding badge

Recognition as a founder of iCaria Together in your community, for as long as you are with us.

First access

Be first to try new services and features, and first to know when iCaria opens somewhere new.

Priority in the founding cohort

As the local network grows, Founding Families come first for matching and new provider capacity.

Founding pricing that stays with you

When platform fees begin after the launch, Founding Families keep a preferred founding rate. We remember who was here first.

A two-way commitment

Founding Families

Share honest feedback, try new services early, and help us earn trust in the community.

iCaria Together

Build for you and with you, keep listening, and hold the quality and continuity we promise.

What it costs during our launch

During the launch, we waive iCaria's platform fee for Founding Families. You pay your provider directly, at the time of service. No insurance billing, no online payment to iCaria. Private-pay care, kept simple.

An adult child and a Family Advocate talking over tea, unhurried

Plain answers before you decide

What it costs

During the launch we waive iCaria's platform fee for Founding Families. You pay your provider directly, at prices you see before you confirm.

See the full range of services and prices

What happens after you apply

A founder reads every application. We reply within one business day, by email, or by phone if you leave a number.

When care begins

iCaria is live and serving founding families now. A founder reads your application and replies within one business day. Once your seat is confirmed, we match a vetted local provider to your parent's needs and book the first visit. If your community is not open yet, we say so plainly and hold your place.

Who qualifies

Any family caring for a parent or loved one at home. Tell us where you are. We open community by community, and Founding Families get first access as we reach yours.

Who comes to the door

Independent local care professionals, every one iCaria Certified: identity verified, two references spoken with, a signed code of conduct, and training renewed every year. iCaria coordinates them and holds them to that standard.

If someone cancels

Your advocate arranges cover from the same small certified team and tells you right away. We would rather be honest about a delay than send an unvetted stranger.

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Certified local care providers ready on a rise above the homes they will serve

How it works

Providers first

We onboard and certify local providers before we open seats, so a Founding Family is never left waiting for care.

A Family Advocate where available

Where an advocate is available, they help you build a care profile and coordinate. This grows as the local network grows.

iCaria Together is not an emergency service, and it does not replace public home and community care such as Ontario Health atHome. Use every public service your parent qualifies for. iCaria covers the everyday non-medical help around them, with one accountable local person and updates your whole family can see.

A program that grows community by community

We open a Founding Families cohort in every community we enter. As each one launches, its own founding members shape care where they live.

Founding families and a local iCaria Certified provider together in their community

A semicircle of chairs facing the sunrise, with an empty seat kept open

Sign up and claim your founding seat

Tell us a little about your family. This creates your iCaria family account and puts your name on a founding seat.