Agency packet
Agency participation packet.
Honest House Promise gives agencies a public framework for legal-pay education, participation, and client-facing accountability without turning agencies into payroll companies or compliance departments.
What it is
A public pledge and participation standard for agencies.
Families often make payroll and employment decisions during or immediately after placement. Agencies are in a unique position to make legal pay part of the conversation before the caregiver’s first day.
What it is not
- Certification.
- Verification.
- Approval.
- Legal review.
- Payroll compliance review.
- Tax, accounting, insurance, or government advice.
Agency levels
Start with support. Join when ready.
The launch structure stays intentionally simple. Promise Partner remains a future advanced pathway while the founding agency group helps shape what is realistic.
Supporter
For agencies or aligned supporters who publicly support the mission but are not joining as paid participants yet.
- Name-only public supporter listing.
- No badge, profile page, logo placement, or promised backlink.
- No participation status or compliance implication.
Participating Agency
For agencies ready to make legal pay part of their public and client-facing process.
- Public Participating Agency status.
- Badge rights while participation remains current.
- Public profile and annual attestation.
- Approved participation language.
- Founder/agency profile or interview-style write-up opportunity.
- Templates, scripts, calculators, checklists, and practical tools as released.
Promise Partner status is being held for later. It is intended for agencies that choose to fund or directly support payroll setup for placed families through first-year payroll fee support, reimbursement, setup handoff, or equivalent agency-funded support.
Founding agencies
Founding agencies get practical visibility and useful tools.
Founding status should reward early agencies without promising leads, search rankings, press, exclusivity, or compliance recognition.
- Founding designation.
Early agencies can be recognized as founding participants while participation remains current. - Founder-style visibility.
Profiles, interview-style write-ups, and agency spotlights as the campaign develops. - Early access.
Templates, scripts, checklists, calculators, and agency tools as they are released. - First-renewal price lock.
The $495 founding rate is intended to stay available for the first renewal if participation remains current.
What your money funds
Shared infrastructure agencies can point to, reuse, and help improve.
The fee is not just for a badge. It funds the public standard, agency visibility, practical resources, and the upkeep needed to make legal household employment easier to explain.
Core infrastructure
Website upkeep, participation records, member listings, public profiles, forms, software, and basic administration.
Public education
Plain-language resources about payroll, written terms, true cost, and responsible household employment.
Agency resources
Client conversation scripts, payroll handoff templates, agency website language, checklists, and tools.
Visibility and momentum
Agency profiles, founder-style write-ups, member spotlights, launch materials, and public awareness work.
Governance
Badge rules, misuse processes, disclosure language, annual attestations, and clear participation language.
Tool development
Calculators, templates, scripts, workflow prompts, and practical agency tools as the member base develops.
It does not guarantee leads, placements, rankings, press, exclusivity, payroll provider endorsement, or a finding that anyone is legally compliant.