Jennifer Jacobs | CEO | Connect Our Kids

Dr. Jennifer Jacobs has spent a career in leadership and problem solving: in the Army, at a national lab, in government, and in business management. She is a West Point graduate and a former White House Fellow.

Connect Our Kids builds scalable tools to connect foster children with their families and supporters. Dr. Jennifer Jacobs has spent a career in leadership and problem solving: in the Army, at a national lab, in government, and in business management. She is a West Point graduate and a former White House Fellow. Dr. Jacobs’ background is nuclear counter-terrorism, which led to our software being based on intel network tools that map out terrorist networks — we’ve made a user-friendly version for social workers that is free and helps them keep foster kids connected to their families and kin.

One example: a social worker in Ohio used our tools to help Tammy, a pregnant young foster youth from a dissolved adoption, about to age out of care on her own with a new baby. Instead, within weeks she was surrounded by her biological family, bearing baby gifts and commitments of connection and support — and they told her “We never knew about you. No one told us you needed help.”

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