Testimonials
I have been doing family finding for 3 plus years now. Before Connect Our Kids, I would use butcher block paper to build a family tree, and I would spend a week or more attempting to locate roughly 30 to 50 family/relatives. Now with Connect Our Kids software platform, I am able to find a plethora (over 100 or more) family/relatives in a matter of hours. I have been utilizing the Connect Our Kids software platform for roughly a year. This has been a major game changer for our CASA Program and for the kids in CPS care.
David Fowler
Previous CASA Supervisor and CFE Lead, Texas
We are so grateful to have crossed paths with the Connect Our Kids leadership at a Family Finding conference in November 2019. Immediately, the team asked, “How can we help you find connections for foster youth?” NOAS partnered as a pilot agency for the software and now has fourteen staff using the system regularly to find permanency. Recently, a new staff member located an estranged sister of a birth mom. The sister lived a few miles from our office and was already a licensed foster parent. Auntie welcomed her nephew and has been matched for adoption. Without the tools provided in the Connect Our Kids software, we may not have found permanency for this teen.
Cheryl Tarantino
Northeast Ohio Adoption Services, NOAS, Ohio
From our first conversation with the Connect Our Kids team, we knew that this tool would be a valuable asset to assuring permanent family connections for the children we serve across the nation. Hundreds of our grantees and partners now have access to not only the technology that significantly increases their ability to link to extended family but also to robust training and expertise, all with one single goal in mind–dramatically improve the lives of children in foster care waiting for permanency.
Rita Soronen, President and CEO
Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, National, based in Ohio.
Through our family finding program, and with the support of the Connect Our Kids software, the Children’s Home Network has returned hundreds of children back to their families, restoring their sense of belonging, love, and hope.
Irene Rickus, CEO
Children’s Home Network, Florida
