We confirmed all six published standards by hand, including the license and a current certificate of insurance.
Get a written estimate before you commit, as you would with anyone.
About
A free community resource. A Harbor Lane program.
Built to stay neutral. KinSource™ has its own name because it's a public resource, not a sales channel.
Who runs KinSource
The help exists. Nobody tells you the order.
- First place, Houston Hackathon 2026
- Free for families
- Neutral by design
Harbor Lane is a Houston senior transition company. We started KinSource because families kept telling us the same thing: the help exists, but nobody tells you the order.
KinSource is free for families. Harbor Lane researches the resources, vets the providers and keeps the costs current. We built it for the Houston Hackathon 2026 challenge, Helping Families Manage Senior Parents' Re-Housing, where it won first place.
Plan logic adapted, with permission, from Next Home Houston, a prototype built by a volunteer developer at Houston Hackathon 2026.
How we keep it fair.
Six rules, published so anyone can hold us to them.
- 01
Free public help, like 2-1-1 and the Aging & Disability Resource Center, is always listed first and never behind a login.
- 02
Providers in the KinSource Directory are checked by hand against published criteria, and every listing shows its status. No one pays to be listed.
- 03
We take no referral fees from directory listings.
- 04
Harbor Lane appears in the directory only if it meets the same criteria, and it's labeled as the steward.
- 05
Sponsors, if we have them, are named openly and can't affect which providers are listed or how they're ordered.
- 06
KinSource never provides care. Licensed care comes from the agencies in the Directory and the free public programs we list.
How providers are vettedVerified Partially verified Unverified Read the standards
Checked by hand, with an honest status.
Every private provider is checked against six published standards: license status, insurance on file, background-checked staff, written estimates, family reviews, and a published service area and price range. Each listing shows how far we've got and the date its status last changed.
The license or credential and some other standards are confirmed from public records. The rest are still being checked.
Confirm the license number, insurance and pricing yourself before you sign anything.
Listed from public information only. We haven't confirmed anything yet.
Double-check every detail before you rely on it, or contact KinSource and we'll help you check.
How the costs are set
Every cost range comes from published Houston prices we checked in September 2026, and we check them at least once a year.
How we set costsHow it's funded
KinSource is free to families. Sponsors are welcome only if they're named openly and can't affect which providers are listed or how they're ordered.
What we store
As little as possible. We never ask for diagnoses or health details, and you can delete your saved plans and account at any time.
Read the privacy notice