Family Thread · Powered by Mira · From MV Learning
The thread that
doesn’t break.
Schools don’t talk to hospitals. Hospitals don’t talk to housing. Families end up holding it all together — until they can’t. Family Thread is the continuity layer that finally connects the systems, held together by Mira, the AI companion who remembers every family.
Trusted by 3,500+ school districts nationwide
What Family Thread is
One family. One thread. Every system.
Today, families in crisis tell their story six different times to six different intake forms. Schools don’t talk to hospitals. Hospitals don’t talk to housing. Housing doesn’t talk to the food bank. The family carries the weight of holding it all together — until they can’t.
Family Thread is the layer that quietly stitches those systems together. With family consent, Mira holds the family’s context once and shares it with the school liaison, the hospital social worker, the community advocate, and the family themselves. Everyone sees the same picture. Nothing has to be retold.
For families
Someone who remembers
Text Mira once, in any language. Help comes — and keeps coming.
For staff
Hours back, every week
Liaisons, social workers, and advocates spend less time on intake and more time with families.
For systems
Continuity at scale
Schools, hospitals, and community partners share one consented family record.
Why we built it
The handoffs are where families fall.
Every part of the safety net is doing its job. The problem isn’t any one system — it’s the spaces between them. A McKinney-Vento liaison identifies a homeless student on Monday. The hospital sees the same family in the ED on Friday and has no idea. A community action agency tries to help on Saturday and starts from zero. The family does what families do: they keep telling the story until they’re too tired to keep telling it.
1.55M
K-12 students identified as homeless in SY2023–24 — a record high
6×
Times a family in crisis typically retells their story across systems
60%
Of a liaison’s or social worker’s day spent on documentation, not families
35%
Of authorized services that go unused because families can’t navigate the next step
“The thread doesn’t break” isn’t a slogan. It’s a promise that the family’s context follows them — through every door, every transition, every system that’s supposed to help.
Who we are
Built by the company that already lives in this work.
MV Learning is a nationally recognized, best-in-class ed-tech company serving over 3,500 school districts across the country.
We’ve worked side by side with McKinney-Vento Liaisons on a daily basis for years. We’ve sat in the cluttered offices, watched the late-night documentation, and listened to the families calling at 9 PM. We understand the pain points because we live next to them — and we’ve made a long-term commitment to making a measurable impact in this space.
Family Thread is what happens when an ed-tech company that already knows the work decides to fix the connective tissue.
3,500+
School districts served by MV Learning
Daily
Direct partnership with McKinney-Vento Liaisons
Nationally
Recognized as a best-in-class ed-tech provider
Long-term
Committed to the family-stability problem space
Find your starting point
Where do you fit in the thread?
Choose the page that best reflects the work you do. Each one tells the same story from a different doorway.
School Districts
I lead a McKinney-Vento program.
Identify more students, drop the documentation burden, and help your liaisons and social workers do the work only they can do.
Community Hospitals
I work in a community hospital.
Turn every admission, ED visit, and discharge into a screened, triaged, followed-up social-care opportunity — not a missed handoff.
Community Partners & Human Services
I serve families through a community agency.
End re-intake fatigue. Carry one family record across housing, food, employment, healthcare, and benefits.
Families
I’m a parent looking for help.
Free, confidential, in your language, any time. Text Mira once and a real person reaches back.
The thread that doesn’t break.
For families. For the people who serve them. For every system that’s supposed to hold.
Family Thread · Powered by Mira · From MV Learning