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Overview
Church-Vetted Requests (formerly known as Church-Entered Needs) is a CarePortal feature that enables Churches to equip their own Response Teams with opportunities to share and meet needs beyond those submitted by local Agencies. This article covers who can use Church-Vetted Requests, how your Church benefits, and who can respond. Let's get started!
Intended audience
Included in this article
- How does this benefit my Church?
- Who can submit a Church-Vetted Request?
- Who can respond to a Church-Vetted Request?
- Additional training
How does this benefit my Church?
- Create opportunities to meet follow-up needs: After your Church meets an Agency-Vetted Request and is introduced to a family, there are often additional ways you can provide ongoing support — forming a deeper, more meaningful connection with each interaction.
- Better serve your congregation: Strengthen your Church's support for fostering, adopting, and at-risk families in your congregation.
- Better serve your community: Empower your congregation to identify needs around them and submit them through CarePortal for the Church to help meet, including service projects, drives, or volunteer opportunities. You can also allow your community partners to submit requests directly to your Church.
- Easily track impact and engagement: Expand your community outreach using a platform that helps you get people involved, see their individual impact, and celebrate stories of what God is doing through your Church
Quick Tip: Enabling a CarePortal Fund and requesting a CarePortal Card would allow your Church to raise money from anyone, anywhere — and use that money to meet the requests you identify and enter!
Who can submit a Church-Vetted Request?
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The Church-Vetted Requests Leader can enter requests directly from their CarePortal Dashboard under
Church-Vetted Requestsin Request Management. These are immediately sent to all Responders across all Response Teams at your Church, allowing them to contribute as God moves them. - Any Church Leader (Primary Point Person, Connecting Church Leader) for a Church with Church-Vetted Requests enabled can also enter requests from their Dashboard. In these cases, each request is sent to the Church-Vetted Requests Leader for approval before going out to Responders.
- Any Response Team Leader can enter a request from their Dashboard as well. It's first sent to the Church-Vetted Requests Leader for approval before being shared with Responders on their Response Team. Team Leaders can also request that it be shared with all Response Teams at the Church, which also requires Church-Vetted Requests Leader approval.
Who can respond to a Church-Vetted Request?
Church-Vetted Requests are public — anyone on the CarePortal platform can see and respond to them.
Providing toward or Funding a Church-Vetted Request is a great way to help, but it's not the only option! Anyone can also give to your Church's CarePortal Fund if it's been enabled by the Primary Point Person. Your Church will need at least one Church-Vetted Requests Leader with an active CarePortal Card to apply those donations toward any Church-Vetted Request your Church has entered.
Since your Church is automatically the Lead Church for any request it submits, when a Church Leader uses the CarePortal Fund to help meet a request, the money is automatically transferred to the Church's CarePortal Card.
Quick Tip: Church-Vetted Requests appear on your Church or Response Team's public page — they won't show up in the general list of open requests.
Additional training
For more information on how Church-Vetted Requests work, check out our Church-Vetted Requests HCA and watch the overview video below.
Quick Tip: As CarePortal continually improves, you may notice some differences between the animations in our training videos and your live Dashboard. Our team is re-animating and re-recording as quickly as we can! Email Training@CarePortal.org if you have questions in the meantime.
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