You Needed This Yesterday.
A free resource for foster, adoptive, and kinship families in Iowa, built by someone who's been there.
Our Story
The Village Co. started because nobody should have to figure this out alone.
I'm Sara Jo — an adoptive parent in Iowa who spent years figuring things out the hard way. Court dates nobody explained. Benefits I didn't know I was entitled to. Hard days with no one to call. A system that assumed I knew how it worked when nobody had ever told me.
I built this site for the person I was on day one. For the grandparent who just took in their grandchildren and doesn't know where to start. For the foster parent sitting in a parking lot after a hard visit trying to hold it together. For the adoptive parent who thought finalization would feel like an ending and is realizing it's actually a beginning.
This is not a government resource. It is not sponsored by an agency. It is just one person who has been there, putting everything she learned in one place so you don't have to figure it out alone.
You needed this yesterday, but better late than never.