A nonprofit being built in 2026 to support foster and adoptive families across Southern California.
Hogan Wagner is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst with 12 years of clinical experience working with children and adults with developmental needs. Through that work, he saw repeatedly how isolated foster and adoptive families can be — managing trauma, placements, paperwork, and the emotional weight of building family in extraordinary circumstances, often without the kind of practical community support that other parents take for granted.
In 2026, Hogan is launching Becoming Kin as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit to be that community. The Wagner family is also exploring becoming foster parents themselves — building a nonprofit to support foster families while preparing to become one is intentional, not coincidental. Hogan believes the people who support foster families well are the people who understand what those families are walking through.
Becoming Kin is funded initially through Hogan's own resources — including proceeds from his ABA therapy practice, Kindaya ABA. The intent is to grow into a self-sustaining organization through donor partnerships, in-kind business contributions, and individual giving. Volunteer coordination is the heart of the model.
Becoming Kin exists to surround foster, adoptive, biological, and vulnerable families with practical support, enduring community, and restorative care so children and caregivers can experience belonging, stability, and hope.
Helping vulnerable children and families find belonging, stability, and support.
A future where no foster, adoptive, or vulnerable family feels alone — and every young person has access to a network of safe, committed adults who help them heal, grow, and belong.
No child treated like a temporary burden. No caregiver left without community.
Our core belief
People need more than services. They need family, friendship, consistency, and community.Becoming Kin
Each value connects directly to our vision — and answers a specific question about how we show up for children, caregivers, and communities.
Families need more than good intentions. They need dependable support. We build circles of care around foster, adoptive, biological, extended-family caregivers, and vulnerable families so they do not have to face crisis, transition, or healing in isolation.
How do we make sure no family feels alone?
Every child carries permanent worth. We refuse to treat children as placements, problems, or temporary burdens. We work to create environments where children experience safety, dignity, consistency, and belonging.
How do we make sure no child is treated like a temporary burden?
Programs can help, but people heal in the context of trustworthy relationships. We value patient, long-term connection with children, caregivers, and young adults because belonging is built through people who keep showing up.
How do we help children and caregivers heal, grow, and belong?
Care becomes real when it meets tangible needs. We provide practical support that helps families stay steady, reduces unnecessary disruption, and communicates dignity through action.
What kind of help actually keeps families supported before they break down?
We believe ordinary people can become an extraordinary support system when they choose responsibility for one another. We connect families, churches, volunteers, professionals, and neighbors into lasting networks of care.
Who becomes the network of safe, committed adults?
Foster and adoptive families face intense, underserved challenges. Existing systems support placement and licensing, but the everyday support — meals, supplies, celebration, presence — falls on individual families. Becoming Kin exists to be the community that shows up.
When a child arrives in a new placement, there's paperwork, trauma, uncertainty — and usually a near-empty pantry and no one to call. We're building the network that answers that call.
No family navigating the foster or adoption system should face it without a community behind them. That's the conviction that drives Becoming Kin — and it's why the founding phase matters as much as the launch.
Building infrastructure, recruiting founding volunteers, connecting with case managers and donor businesses.
First volunteer orientation. First referrals from social workers we've connected with. First Welcome Home Kits assembled.
Expanded volunteer base. Active projects across our service area. Founding business partners announced.
Expanded geographic coverage, additional project types, deeper case manager partnerships.
The people who help build Becoming Kin now are the founders of whatever this becomes.
