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Connect Our Kids is a technology nonprofit which builds tools and creates training that center the relational health of children and families involved in the child welfare system. Our technology and training that we provide child welfare professional enables them to transform and scale how they help children in foster care reconnect with family and other meaningful people in their lives-relatives, mentors, coaches, teachers-anyone who once knew them and still cares.
Our advanced platform dramatically reduces the time it takes to find and map these connections, turning what used to take weeks into just minutes. But this work is about more than speed-it's about identity and belonging. Even when foster care is the right path, no child should grow up believing they were forgotten. In a system that often erases identity, reestablishing family and familiar relationships helps children heal, by feeling seen, remembered, and rooted in who they are.
Connect Our Kids would like to provide Scholarships to the Arizona Children's Association. Arizona's Children Association (AzCA) is the largest foster care provider in the state! We train and support foster care families who can open their hearts and homes to vulnerable children while their biological families are on the mend.
The $5500 grant would consist of three (3) software licenses for Family Connections with training/IT support and 3 scholarships for Child Welfare Specialists to take the Continuing Education (CE) Course "Why Relationships Matter" from Connect Our Kids University. This CE course is crafted by licensed social workers to educate child welfare specialists on the significance of relational health, the effects of childhood trauma, and the transformative power of connections for children.
Rotarians of Chandler Horizon Rotary will participate in this project by preparing the grant with the recipient and shepherding the grant through the grant process. CHR Rotarians will follow up with Arizona Children's Association to get feedback from child welfare specialist on how many permanent placements of foster children case managers using Connect Our Kids software and training occurred and feedback from child welfare professionals on the CE Course "Why Relationships Matter."
Publicity will involve posting information and pictures on the CHR various social media channels regarding funding for Arizona Children's Association and this District Grant.
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