Our Village Closet (OVC) was founded by two Foster Moms out of basic need felt personally and throughout the fostering community at large. Advocacy and connection came from their own life stories.  They themselves had experienced last minute placement calls without enough of or the right kind of essentials to support children entering their homes. Dragging a fragile newborn, disassociated toddler, or overstimulated and afraid grade schooler around town in search of what is needed just doesn’t work, and certainly doesn’t mitigate further trauma.

They also learned how much support and encouragement they needed along the way: connections to other caregivers who understood what it was to invite brokenness and trauma into their lives and homes, people who could help them lean into the uncertainty, resources to help them parent complex trauma, extra needs, medical fragility, attachment disorders and so much more. And so, they dreamed of such a place, part supply closet/part support and resources.