UJIMA Community Services - Recruitment Services
UJIMA Community Services - One Church, One Child of Washington State, Inc.
Recruitment - the door to answering their needs.Recruitment Services
...the door to 
Answering the Need
 
 
Original ONE CHURCH, ONE CHILD Program- One Church, One Child of Washington State
provides recruitment, training, and preparation for families toward permanency planning foster care and/or adoption.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  1. Facilitate targeted and specific child recruitment services in consultation with the child’s worker
  2. Identify and assist families with preparation and the application packet
  3. Support and advocate for families for our children as they proceed through the system, until completion of the process
  4. Prepare staff, foster families and the children for placement
 
UJIMA Training Programs for Support - PRIDE Pre-Service Training (mandated by the State for foster/adopt families and facilitated by UJIMA staff (CWLA Certified Trainers); Parenting Training; Cultural Awareness/Competency Trainings; Bridge Builders Course (for families parenting African American children cross-culturally); C2P2 - Culturally Competent Professional Practice; Sibling Preparation Training; and others as requested
 
 
Specialty Recruitment and Support Services:
 
AFRICAN IMMIGRANT RECRUITMENT PROGRAM
UJIMA has an innovative and active collaboration with the various Somali, Eritrean, etc. communities and organizations in Region 4 (King County), Olive Crest, CHS/W, and the Department of Licensed Resources of Region 4. Through this collaboration, King County African Immigrant children who are in out-of-home-care, will soon find kinship and licensed foster care families within their own communities to be placed within.
 
SPANISH-SPEAKING FAMILIES and FAMILIES FLUENT IN ASL RECRUITMENT PROGRAMS
UJIMA has an innovative and active collaboration with the Spanish-Speaking communities in Region 4, and the Deaf and Hard Of Hearing communities of Region 4. Through this collaboration, King County Spanish-speaking children and children who are deaf and/or hard of hearing, who are in out-of-home-care, will soon find kinship and licensed foster care families who are also Spanish-speaking or can communicate through ASL, to be place within.
COMPEL (Churches On the Move for Permanency in Every Life) Program - provides recruitment & encouragement/assistance to the entire church congregation and/or community to support our children
 
BRINGING OUR CHILDREN HOME Program (BOCH) - provides a specialized and targeted child and community specific recruitment for African American, Somali, Eritrean, Spanish-speaking, Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing families (UJIMA has recruitment staff representing each of these communities). BOCH through COMPEL was envisioned in 1999 to provide recruitment of entire church congregations and encouragement to those congregations to support not only the children who are in care but also the families in those congregations who care for these children.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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, and all children, in Washington State.
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