Our Mission
Our mission is to provide children and youth with safe, loving foster and adoptive homes, along with comprehensive support services, to help them overcome challenges, reach their potential, and build brighter futures.
Our Vision
Agape Villages will become the foster care agency of choice in fulfilling the needs of disadvantaged children and their families throughout our service area.
Our Story
Agape Villages began its ministry in 1958 as Sierra Children’s Home and evolved into a network of regional group homes. In 1995 we moved to foster family care, at which time the agency name changed to AGAPE VILLAGES. In the over half a century since 1958, we have served more than 6,000 of California’s most troubled youth. Agape Villages remains committed to the same principles that energized the agency’s founders: our values; providing the very highest level of professional services to disadvantaged children and their families; devotion to the people who choose to provide loving foster care for homeless and disadvantaged children that depend on us to help them recover and reshape their futures.
Strategic Plan Goals
- Expand Scope and Quality of our Foster Care Program
- Maintain CARF Accreditation
- Strengthen Financial Position
- Fulfill All Governance Tasks
Our Impact
What our children have to say about Agape Villages and our programs:
“Agape Villages has helped me realize I have potential to do things in my life even as a foster youth.”
– 18 year old foster child
“I have learned so many things through the enrichment and living skills programs… how to ride a horse, do a resume, and the importance about saving for the future.”
– 16 year old foster child
“I now know I can be something in my life”.
– 15 year old foster child
Statistics
| Lifetime Since 1958 | 2025 Total | 2026 Through March | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children Served | 6,730 | 71 | 50 |
| Number of Foster Families | 67 | 34 | 32 |