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  Family Preservation Services Retention Services · Family and Heritage Preservation Services - This program provides services to families and youth including: Pre-service and in-service kinship, foster care, adoption, preparation trainings - Home-based services
- Training and referral
- other services as requested
· Visitation Supervision and Mental Health Services - These services assist our children and their birth families to keep a strong bond and assist our Permanency Planning Resource Families deal with the stresses associated with foster care, adoption and kinship care facilitation. |
Preserving our Heritage Services Please, keep our children in the front of your minds... Although African American children are only 4% of the children in Washington State, African American children represent 16% of the children in out of home care, 20% of the children legally free for adoption, and 22% of the children legally free without a permanent home. In King County the disproportion is even greater – 39% of the children in out-of-home care are African American children! UJIMA not only believes in “bringing our children home”, but first and foremost in “keeping our children home.” Two things that all "Waiting Children" will have in common are: 1. Their need to be a permanent part of a responsible and nurturing family, where they will be loved and encouraged to achieve their full potential, and 2. Although imperfect and most often challenging, they can bring tremendous joy and satisfaction for their new families. The power to change a child’s life forever - it's in your hands. |
Waiting Children This term generally refers to children, who are in the Washington State foster care system (“child welfare system”). These children have a need for permanency and many times they have become legally available for adoption. They will generally be under the legal jurisdiction and care of the public agency and will have come into the foster care system for a variety of reasons, which could include neglect, abandonment, abuse and/or some other dysfunction within their family environment. Waiting children may or may not have developed emotional and/or behavioral reactions to these experiences, and may or may not be physically or developmentally challenges or delayed as a natural result of what they have been through. Some waiting children will have siblings who are also available for adoption, and who would prefer to stay together as a family unit. Assist OCOC/UJIMA in Bringing Our Children Home! Please, feel free to contact us directly at 888.765.7997 ext 1. |
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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