Bringing Our Children Home through COMPEL - Church Participation Form
“By filling out and submitting this COMPEL Church Participation Form, our church commits itself to participate in the awareness building, recruitment, support and retention efforts of the COMPEL Program.
These recruitment efforts will be designed to increase the awareness of the plight of the disproportionate number of African American children who reside in "out of home care" in Washington State and to stand on the church’s bible-directed missions mandate regarding the fatherless."
As Pastor, I will appoint a COMPEL Champion whose main responsibilities are to:
- Act as internal resource to provide adoption information to interested families.
- Maintain and distribute current OCOC/UJIMA COMPEL foster care and adoption literature.
- Refer any families who have an interest in adoption or foster care to a One Church, One Child representative at Department of Human Resources, Social Service Administration.
- Coordinate the participation of the church in services to support and retain the foster and adoptive families who are members of the church (such as a “Blessings Room” and organizing church-sponsored OCOC/UJIMA COMPEL events)
I do understand that there is no formal financial obligation inferred by our church's commitment to the OCOC/UJIMA COMPEL Program.
Thank you! Your Form has been submitted successfully.
Within 48 hours of receipt, a staff member of OCOC/UJIMA COMPEL Program will contact you to set up a Church Leaders, Members, and Champion Orientation.
There was an error submitting the form.
After submission of this form, our church awaits contact, within 48 working hours, by a staff member of OCOC/UJIMA COMPEL Program to set up a Church Leaders, Members, and Champion Orientation.
Thank you for allowing our church to participate in this form of mission work.”
UJIMA Community Services, following the mandates of the law (MEPA as Ammended in 1996), works primarily in King County, Snohomish County, and Pierce County specializing in the recruitment, training, licensing, and support of families for foster care, adoption, and kinship care placement of African American children in Washington State.