Case Study: Connect Our Kids helps social workers find permanent families for foster children with yWorks yFiles

Connect Our Kids helps social workers find forever families with yWorks and 300+ data sources

Connect Our Kids, a non-profit organization, faced the challenge of helping social workers efficiently find permanent homes for foster children. Their paper-based process for mapping a child's extended family and support network was incredibly tedious and time-intensive, preventing them from scaling their efforts. They sought a technology solution to visualize these complex relationship graphs and turned to the vendor yWorks, using their yFiles diagramming SDK to build their Family Connections tool.

By implementing yFiles, Connect Our Kids was able to create a highly flexible and collaborative online tool with specific family-tree network layouts and interactive features like "zoom to see more information." The solution from yWorks drastically cut down the time social workers spent tracking down connections and enabled them to spend more time directly with the children. The tool was planned to be made available nationwide in the US in 2020, significantly expanding its impact.

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