Health Care & Nonprofits

AVI Health & Community Services

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AVI Health & Community Services website by Becker Design

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Overview

Web Design & Development Project Overview

AVI Health and Community Services delivers harm reduction, HIV and hepatitis C support, testing and outreach across Vancouver Island. Its website has an unusual burden for a nonprofit: the people it most needs to reach are often the least able to navigate a complicated site, sometimes on a borrowed phone, often urgently, and frequently while deciding whether an organization can be trusted with something they have told nobody.

So the structure puts finding help ahead of explaining the organization. Support is its own content type rather than a page — each kind of help stands alone and is reachable directly. Services sit alongside; locations are proper records instead of addresses in a paragraph, and the About material is broken into separate pieces so a funder reading about governance and a person looking for a testing site are never in each other’s way.

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Case study

Deep Dive

What actually went into AVI Health & Community Services’s build, decision by decision — and the service behind each one.

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Help first, organization second
Most charity websites open by explaining the charity. Somebody who needs testing, or clean supplies, or an answer right now, does not need the mission statement first. Support was built as its own content type so each kind of help is a destination in itself — findable, linkable, and reachable without understanding how the organization is structured.
Where this goes deeper→ Nonprofits
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Where you can actually walk in
Locations are structured entries, so each carries a page, a URL and details that stay right when hours change. For services delivered in person across an island, the difference between a maintained location structure and a paragraph somebody last edited in 2023 is somebody arriving at a closed door.
Where this goes deeper→ Responsive Web Design
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Two readers who must not collide
A funder assessing governance and a person looking for a needle exchange are both essential visitors and want nothing the other wants. Splitting the organizational material into its own structure keeps the accountability content complete without putting it between somebody and the help they came for.
Where this goes deeper→ WordPress Design
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Written for a borrowed phone
The people this organization serves are the least likely to have a good device, a fast connection or an unlimited plan. That is not an accessibility footnote here, it is the primary use case — and it argues for a light, plain, fast site far more strongly than any style preference could.
Where this goes deeper→ WordPress Performance Optimization

In their words

LP — AVI Health & Community Services★★★★★

I worked with Bryn on a website redesign for a non-profit client. He was a total delight to work with from start to finish. He was extremely friendly and pleasant to work with, always clear and consistent on timelines, and produced a beautiful, well-designed, accessible, usable site that we’re absolutely thrilled with, at a competitive price. I would recommend him wholeheartedly.

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