At Connect Our Kids, our mission is to connect every foster kid in the US with their permanent loving home. We're scaling up a proven technique called "family searching" - which focuses on discovering and engaging extended family members to aid foster kids. Our technology will help social workers quickly and accurately build family trees.
Core Challenge
We need to build a very simple web application that helps social workers search for contact information for extended family members. The tool will help thousands of social workers do a task they are already doing - finding permanent loving homes for foster kids.
Projects
People Search platform: Build a Connect Our Kids branded “people search” tool that will provide social workers quick access to one or more sources of people contact information. This tool will be a very simple web browser only application that uses existing backend APIs. The tool will allow users from specific domains to sign-up, and then perform searches of contact information for people. The application will keep logs (excluding actual searches and content), and provide basic help for the end user. Thousands of social workers will use this tool to perform searches for contact information of extended family for foster kids. Each search represents one step closer to finding a permanent loving home for a foster kid.
Impact
Thousands of social workers will use this tool to perform searches for contact information of extended family for foster kids. Each search represents one step closer to finding a permanent loving home for a foster kid.
Core Skills Needed
Angular 7
REST APIs
UI/UX Design
Current Tech Stack
Angular 7, NodeJS
Auth0
AWS EC2 and Serverless
S3
What to expect?
You will work with a small volunteer team of 2-3 experts in UI, frontend, and REST API clients. You’ll collaborate on design ideas, write code and review others’ code. You’ll learn about the US foster care system and how technology can have a huge positive impact. We are an all-volunteer team committed to providing solutions for social workers. And we need skilled people like you to join us. Accomplishing this mission will mean a dramatically improved life for thousands of vulnerable kids right here in the US.
At Connect Our Kids, our mission is to connect every foster kid in the US with their permanent loving home. We're scaling up a proven technique called "family searching" - which focuses on discovering and engaging extended family members to aid foster kids. Our technology will help social workers quickly and accurately build family trees.
Core Challenge
We need to build a very simple web application that helps social workers search for contact information for extended family members. The tool will help thousands of social workers do a task they are already doing - finding permanent loving homes for foster kids.
Projects
People Search platform: Build a Connect Our Kids branded “people search” tool that will provide social workers quick access to one or more sources of people contact information. This tool will be a very simple web browser only application that uses existing backend APIs. The tool will allow users from specific domains to sign-up, and then perform searches of contact information for people. The application will keep logs (excluding actual searches and content), and provide basic help for the end user. Thousands of social workers will use this tool to perform searches for contact information of extended family for foster kids. Each search represents one step closer to finding a permanent loving home for a foster kid.
Impact
Thousands of social workers will use this tool to perform searches for contact information of extended family for foster kids. Each search represents one step closer to finding a permanent loving home for a foster kid.
Core Skills Needed
Current Tech Stack
What to expect?
You will work with a small volunteer team of 2-3 experts in UI, frontend, and REST API clients. You’ll collaborate on design ideas, write code and review others’ code. You’ll learn about the US foster care system and how technology can have a huge positive impact. We are an all-volunteer team committed to providing solutions for social workers. And we need skilled people like you to join us. Accomplishing this mission will mean a dramatically improved life for thousands of vulnerable kids right here in the US.
Project contact Travis Collins, CTO