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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.

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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

Family Connections
People Search

REC Center Tour

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Experience Family Connections

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

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Real Progress. Real Results.

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Connect Our Kids Ambassador Spotlight: Cornelius Johnson

Connect Our Kids’ co-founder Jessica Stern was first introduced to Cornelius a few years ago. At that time, Cornelius told his story of surviving abuse and of his ten years in foster care. 
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Stacy Reunites with Her Grandma

KANSAS: Stacy was removed from her home at age five. Her story is sad and familiar; she had an absent father, who was also a drug user and had a history of neglect. Now 15, Stacey has lived in over 50 placements and is described as angry.
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41 Connections Found For Teen Who Spent Years in Care

VERMONT: Adam* spent eight years in foster care due to parental substance and physical abuse. Growing up with violence, he developed reactive and physical patterns of behavior that resulted in several failed foster home experiences and eventually he would up living in a group home.
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Connect Our Kids Ambassador Spotlight: Cornelius Johnson

Connect Our Kids’ co-founder Jessica Stern was first introduced to Cornelius a few years ago. At that time, Cornelius told his story of surviving abuse and of his ten years in foster care. 
Read more

Stacy Reunites with Her Grandma

KANSAS: Stacy was removed from her home at age five. Her story is sad and familiar; she had an absent father, who was also a drug user and had a history of neglect. Now 15, Stacey has lived in over 50 placements and is described as angry.
Read more

Connect Our Kids Ambassador Spotlight: Cornelius Johnson

Connect Our Kids’ co-founder Jessica Stern was first introduced to Cornelius a few years ago. At that time, Cornelius told his story of surviving abuse and of his ten years in foster care. 
Read more

Stacy Reunites with Her Grandma

KANSAS: Stacy was removed from her home at age five. Her story is sad and familiar; she had an absent father, who was also a drug user and had a history of neglect. Now 15, Stacey has lived in over 50 placements and is described as angry.
Read more

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