Our Story
We built the system, we wish we'd had.
Hearth & Village began the way most caregiving does. Quietly, inside a family, among people trying to do right by someone they love.
Janice & David Connolly · Founders
The worry no one sees
The long-distance phone call. The notebook full of medications. The worry that sits with you at two in the morning. And underneath all of it, the caregiver, holding everything together with sticky notes and sheer will, rarely asked how they are doing.
We went looking, and could not find it
We searched for a tool built for that reality. One that held the whole family at once, adapted as a loved one's needs changed, and treated the caregiver as a person worth supporting too. It did not exist. So we built it.
The heart of it
No one should start from zero.
Caregiving so often rests on one person. When that person cannot be there, for an afternoon, a hospital stay, or something harder, the care should never fall apart with them.
Hearth & Village holds everything the primary caregiver carries. So when someone else steps in, a sibling, an adult child, a trusted friend, they pick up exactly where things were left off. With the full picture, not a scramble of guesswork.
To us, this was never a feature. It is the whole point.
Who we are
Hearth & Village is built by BHD Collective, the design studio David and I have run together for twenty years. I am Janice Connolly, an Air Force veteran, 100 percent permanently and totally disabled, and a UX designer for two decades. David is my partner in this and in life. We did not build this from the outside looking in. We are a family that has lived it.
Be the change you want to see.
Dignity first, never surveillance. Faith and family are the center here, not afterthoughts. And the caregiver, the one everyone leans on, finally gets to feel held too.
Janice & David Connolly
Founders, Hearth & Village
You don't have to do this alone.
If you are caring for someone you love, let us show you how Hearth & Village can help your whole family.