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In the time it takes you to read this headline, you can discover extended
family connections for a vulnerable child.

Our tools make diligent searches faster and easier – to find permanent families, identify support networks, and orchestrate belonging for America’s most vulnerable children.

Connect Our Kids is the most successful technology platform for family search and engagement in the country. Using our technology, child welfare professionals make tens of thousands of life-changing connections each year.

Quick Start Guide:

Put the power of our technology to work for you

Bookmark our site and download our mobile app.

Get started with tools designed to help you search, connect, collaborate, and support children in finding safe and permanent homes.

Map Kinship Connections

Use Family Connections to build a map of each child’s family and support network, and People Search to find contact information for everyone on it

REC Center Tour

Tour our REC Center for search tips, scripts, and outreach templates

Our collaborative Model

We focus on delivering profound technological change, so you can focus on leveraging our tech tools to offer the highest level of attention and care to the children and youth you serve. We don’t compete with other models or programs – our tools enhance them and should be used in conjunction with your requirements and best practices.

Family Connections

A free tool for child welfare professionals to quickly build family trees, connect with relatives, and strengthen support networks.

People Search

Created for child welfare professionals and volunteers to find contact information for extended family members and other connections by searching over 300 sources of data.

All Connected

A trauma-informed video academy for creating connection and belonging, designed in collaboration with trauma therapists and advocates with lived experience within the foster care and prison systems.

REC Center

Resources for Engagement and Connecting (REC): an inspirational idea hub for engagement, outreach, diligent/family searching, relationship building, and more!

Find scripts and templates for calls, emails, and letters to help you make life-changing connections.

Connect Our Kids University

A trauma-informed video academy for creating connection and belonging, designed in collaboration with trauma therapists and advocates with lived experience within the foster care and prison systems.

Mobile App

Our mission is to give free modern apps to social workers, so that they can find permanent loving homes for kids in foster care. If you’re a foster care focused social worker, then Connect Our Kids is for you.

Download our app to gain access to our suite of free tools.

Experience Family Connections

Explore how our intuitive platform helps child welfare professionals quickly build family support networks and reconnect children with their families.

Real Progress. Real Results.

A Mother Reunites with Her Teen After Regaining Parental Rights

GEORGIA: ​At age five, Jazmine was placed in foster care because…

Over 270 Family Connections Found for Sibling Group

OHIO: Two years ago, a sibling set of three children, ages 8-13,…

Nearly 10 Years into Foster Care, One Child Reconnects with His Long-Lost Mother

KENTUCKY: When Jakob* was 7, he witnessed his father inflict…

A Mother Reunites with Her Teen After Regaining Parental Rights

GEORGIA: ​At age five, Jazmine was placed in foster care because…

Over 270 Family Connections Found for Sibling Group

OHIO: Two years ago, a sibling set of three children, ages 8-13,…

A Mother Reunites with Her Teen After Regaining Parental Rights

GEORGIA: ​At age five, Jazmine was placed in foster care because…

Over 270 Family Connections Found for Sibling Group

OHIO: Two years ago, a sibling set of three children, ages 8-13,…

Nearly 10 Years into Foster Care, One Child Reconnects with His Long-Lost Mother

KENTUCKY: When Jakob* was 7, he witnessed his father inflict…