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Increasing Increasing awareness of awareness of
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Increasing Increasing awareness of awareness of
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Background and History
Mission statementMission statement• To uphold, preserve, reunify, and establish
permanency for children and families, while valuing the absolute worth of every child and adhering ethical principles.
• Is a non profit organization established on 1993 • Conducts traditional foster care and facilitate
adoptions
• The name hajj means “ a difficult journey in life
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Background and History
• provides foster parents with on-going training in the needs of children removed from home and placed in foster care.
• Also, Al-Hajj, Inc. funds conferences and training opportunities throughout the year
• children and their foster parents, receive recognition for their contributions
• Recognitions include: anniversaries of the foster parents, children’s birthdays etc
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Services • Family Support• Individual Counseling• Individual/Family Assessments• In-Home Family and Individual Therapy• In-Home Parenting Services• In-Home Family Support to Foster Parents• Supervised Visitation Basic Living Skills Support• Case Consultation• Family • Counseling/Reunification• Adoption Home Study• Basic Living Skills Support
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Problems and Goals• Need more foster parents
• struggling with finding families to adopt medically-fragile, teenage mothers with babies, and minority children.
• Many people are not aware of how to become a foster parent.
• However, Al-Hajj is continuing to make progress of recruiting new foster parents as other foster parents move out of foster care for reasons such as adopting current foster children.
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Objectives• maximize their numbers of foster
parents by twenty percent by January of 2010.
• utilize different forms of media like to educate the public on the need for foster care.
• plans to hold an interest meeting monthly
• participate in the local adoption awareness day.
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Audience
• Dependable individuals over the age of 25
• Individuals that have the ability to pass a drug test, criminal background check, and a physical examination.
• Individuals that are willing to work as a team and complete required training hours.
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Strategies and Tactics• A conference in Anniston will be held in to
recruit new foster parents.• The first action will consist of sending thank-you
letters and emails to everyone that attends the conference.
• The second action will be to work with local department of human resources to educate the public on adoption and how important it is to keep a constant flow of foster parents in the system.
• Brochures and flyers will be posted in areas where a variety of traffic enters.
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Calendar• The campaign will be held over
the next eight months leading up to our deadline in January 2010.
• The organization will hold interest meetings on the first Monday of each month.
• The organization will participate in Adoption Awareness Day on May 05, 2009.
• There will be a convention with several guest speakers discussing the importance of adoption and need for foster parents on July 26, 2009.
• There will be a Fall festival to promote being a foster parent, inviting current foster parents and foster children to speak on behalf of Al-hajj in October.
• There will be a Thanksgiving Dinner held in November and employees, foster parents, etc. to invite those that have expressed the desire to be a foster parent.
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BudgetEight monthly meetings (room reservation, supplies, food)
$1600.00
Adoption Awareness Day(Bulletins, brochures, decorations, food, etc.)
$400.00
Convention(Room reservation, food, etc.)
$450.00
Fall Festival(food, supplies, etc.)
$1500.00
Thanksgiving Dinner(food)
$2000.00
Media coverage (newspaper and television)Total
$1500.00
$7450.00
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Evaluation• Surveys will be given to the audience
that attends each meeting that will ask the participant to evaluate the meetings effectiveness as a whole and ask for any comments or opinions as to how to make the meetings more effective.
• The corporation will look into the records of those that attend the meetings and compare the outcomes of how many foster parents are accumulated over the next eight months.