aVillage

aVillage helps churches and communities wrap real, practical care around foster, adoptive, and kinship families — meals, rides, respite, supplies, and a team that shows up.

Where do you fit?

I lead a church or ministry Start or run a foster-care ministry without a spreadsheet — one leader can coordinate dozens of volunteers. Bring aVillage to your church → I'm a foster, adoptive, or kinship family You don't need a church already using aVillage. Tell us what you need and find a community near you. Find a community → I want to help a family If your church is already in aVillage, a 6-character join code from your ministry leader is all you need. I have a join code →

What a village actually does

Care needs

A family says what would help; volunteers claim it. Rides, respite, groceries, a hand on a hard week.

Meal trains

Dinners organized around a placement — allergies, delivery windows, and who's bringing what.

Care circles

A named team wrapped around one family, with a private thread and standing notes.

Foster closet

Shared inventory, a public needs list, volunteer shifts — and it can serve several churches at once.

The licensing journey

State-by-state steps for a family becoming licensed, each with its source and the date it was checked.

Impact reporting

Real numbers for your board or a grant — families supported, needs met, hours given.

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Questions leaders actually ask

Who can see our families' information?: A foster child's details — name, birth date, photo — are visible only to that family's own account. Not church staff, not other members, not other churches. It's enforced in the database, not just hidden in the app, and a child's name is optional everywhere.
What does it cost us?: aVillage is funded by the churches that use it. Your contribution is based on your size; small churches pay nothing, and any church can request a reduced or sponsored account — cost should never be the reason foster families go unserved. Members and families never pay anything.
Do our volunteers need background checks?: That's your call, and your church's policy — aVillage doesn't decide it. The app records what your leaders verified and can require a check before someone takes certain roles, but it never runs checks itself.
Does this replace Planning Center or Church Community Builder?: No. Those run your church. aVillage runs the care around one family at a time — a meal train with the allergies on it, a ride nobody dropped, a closet with the right size of shoes. Churches use both.
Can I look around before committing?: Yes. Make an account and choose "Just looking around" — you'll land in a sample community with real-looking families, needs, and meal trains, and you can click anything without touching a real church.

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