For businesses
Sponsor a device for a family who cannot afford one
Families keep telling us the same thing: they need a StepSafe device for their child and they cannot pay for it. This page is for businesses who want to change that.
The problem
Nearly half of autistic children try to leave a safe place once they turn four.[1] When they are not found in time, accidental drowning accounts for 71 percent of the deaths that follow,[2] and autistic children are 160 times as likely to die from drowning as other children.[3]
The equipment built for exactly this problem is priced beyond the families who need it most. The best known device on the market costs US$44.99 to US$64.99 every month, indefinitely, and that is before any one time fee.[4] Over five years that is thousands of dollars for a piece of safety equipment.
StepSafe is CA$159 for the device and CA$19.99 a month, or CA$399 once with no monthly fee for the life of the device.[5] Even at that price, cost is still the single most common reason a family tells us they cannot have one.
- [1]National Autism Association, citing the Interactive Autism Network: 49 percent of children with autism attempt to elope from a safe environment.
- [2]National Autism Association six-year mortality study: accidental drowning accounts for 71 percent of deaths following wandering incidents among children with autism.
- [3]Guan J, Li G. Injury Mortality in Individuals With Autism. American Journal of Public Health 2017;107(5):791-793.
- [4]AngelSense published pricing, recorded from their own site with dated screenshots on 20 July and 5 August 2026. See the screenshots
- [5]Our own current prices. Open the shop
What sponsorship does
CA$349 sponsors one device for a family who cannot afford one, with service for the life of the device. The family never receives a bill. Not in year one, not in year five, not ever.
CA$349 is what Gift a Lifetime costs in our shop.
More than ten? Let us know in the form and we will be in touch.
What sponsors get
Your name on this page
Your logo and a link, in the Our sponsors section below, for as long as this page exists. It is the page we send to every business who asks about sponsoring.
Named in the update every backer receives
Our Kickstarter backers receive a written update on the project, and sponsors are named in it. They are an audience who already put money into this problem.
Included in the press coverage that follows
Journalists have covered StepSafe three times and keep asking what happens next. Sponsored devices reaching families is that story, and sponsors are named in it.
We do not photograph or name the children who receive devices. The story we tell is about the sponsorship programme and the businesses funding it.
How devices reach families
Devices are distributed through non-profit partners like Sabella Fae’s Ausome Adventures, who assess need. We do not decide which families receive them, and neither do sponsors.
Two guarantees. Your money becomes devices or you get it back. And sponsors never receive data about a child or a family: no name, no location, no photograph.
Press coverage
Three newsrooms have written about StepSafe, and one of those pieces ran in four more titles. None of it was paid for.
- NOW Torontoread it
- Mississauga Newsread it
- Modern Mississaugaread it
- The Mississauga News piece was syndicated across The IFP, InsideHalton, Brampton Guardian, Caledon Enterprise.
905hub shared the campaign with their audience, and NOW Toronto ran it on Threads as well as on their site. Closing The Gap, the assistive technology guide, listed us after their VP reached out. Kickstarter named the campaign a Project We Love, and Gadget Flow rates us 9.1.
Our sponsors
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Sponsor a device
Ashwin replies personally, usually the same day.
StepSafe Kids is a for-profit company and cannot issue charitable tax receipts. Sponsorship is a marketing expense. We can provide an invoice with whatever detail your accountant needs.