Our mission
Technology is a force multiplier!
Connect Our Kids is a technology nonprofit dedicated to helping social workers, lawyers, family recruiters, and CASA/GAL volunteers find supportive family connections and natural support networks for America’s most vulnerable. Our approach uses advanced tech tools to speed up and scale up techniques for finding extended family members and other caring adults. We ease the complexities of family search and engagement – to help create connection and belonging.
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The Problem
The Problem
Hundreds of thousands of our most vulnerable need loving families and support networks.
There are more than 100,000 kids who need a permanent, loving family. These children have experienced unimaginable loss and trauma. There are currently 500,000 children in the American foster care system; 20,000 youth age out of this system annually without the security of permanent supportive relationships. Unresolved trauma creates an unstable society.
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The Solution
The Solution
Find a place where every child belongs
Knowing family history and experiencing authentic connection and belonging helps heal trauma. Every child has an extended family, cultural community, and network of neighbors, teachers, coaches, and others. Discovering them can be a slow, labor-intensive, manual process.
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The Work
The Work
Use technology to scale up
We know that relationships with family and others provide a sense of belonging that helps to heal trauma so we applied modern technology to extended family search and engagement. In a world of texting, social media, and hyper-connectedness, it makes sense to help accelerate connections by helping those who help our country’s most vulnerable children.
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The Results
The Results
Exponential impact
Connect Our Kids is the most successful technology platform for family search and engagement in the country. Using our technology, child welfare advocates across 44 states make life-changing connections for thousands of children each year.
