Help make the connections that end housing instability. Using advanced technology, we help the homeless and those at risk of becoming homeless, and their advocates, accelerate the process of finding and contacting a network of support.
Connect Our Kids, originally established for children in foster care, has developed the most successful technology platform for family search and engagement in the country.
We learned that 20,000 youth age out of the system annually without a network of support,
and many of those youth end up in homeless shelters. We knew we could help.
Meeting Pastor Ron and his team at West Coast Care, we saw an opportunity to scale up his life-changing work. Turns out, family search and engagement practices work for adults too. Amazing, right?
The videos below highlight the incredible work being done in LA County, and soon we’ll share best practices for helping homeless adults from Pastor Ron and his team.
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.
Family Connections is a visual relationship mapping tool used to build out networks of extended family members and other natural supports for vulnerable children and their families.
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.
Our tools are available as mobile apps so you can begin searches immediately and on the go.
