Our Agency

The mission of Joining Hands Visitation (JHV) is to provide quality visitation services to families in Washington State, support their independence, and build stronger family ties and better futures – one child at a time.

Our Core Beliefs

• Safety of Children and Families: Our first priority is to ensure the physical and emotional safety of children and families.
• Respect: Our services are respectful to all family members no matter what their life situation, socioeconomic status, race, age, gender, ethnic origin, language, disability, sexual orientation, political and religious beliefs, or marital status. We will treat our families as we want to be treated.
• Compassion: Often the families we work with have a difficult life situation and we must understand that we all have difficult times in our lives and we will treat our families with understanding and compassion as we provide them with the services they need.
• Non-judgment: We will not be judgmental toward our families no matter what the circumstances they are faced with or how long they have struggled with issues that impact their family and their lives. We must remember that everyone is only a step away from havingdifficult life situations and family interactions including ourselves.
• Family Strengths: We will identify and work with the family’s strengths to facilitate a more enjoyable time spent with their children during visitation.
• Community: We will always strive to increase our families’ sense of community throughout our interactions with them. The larger their circle of comfort and support the more beneficial to their children the visit becomes.
• Quality of Care: We will do what it takes for each family to assist them in enjoying their visit time with their children in the hopes that the end result will be the reunification of the family.
• Give Families a New Beginning: Our job is to give our families a new beginning during the visitation so they see can keep the bond that ties their family together. This often means giving complete and unconditional respect to all family members and accepting where they are now in their lives.
• Creating Our Lives: Everything we do in our lives is by choice. We as individuals choose how we create our lives, the results, the realities, and the experiences by our attitudes and the choices we make. The families we service are not their past or their behaviors. Each has a right to a new beginning and as an agency we choose to do the right thing by the families we service.

Agency Information

• Joining Hands Visitation is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt nonprofit organization.
• Unified Business ID #: 604009269
• Federal Tax ID #: 81-3060230

Donations

The operational budget for Joining Hands Visitation is sustained by our government contract. Thus, all the funds collected from donations are applied towards our initiatives for foster parent respite care, scholarships, and outings for foster children.

Joining Hands Visitation is classified as a public charity and considered exempt from all federal taxes under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 501(c)(3). Accordingly, donors can deduct all contributions, and JHV is qualified to receive tax-deductible bequests, devices, transfers, or gifts. We greatly appreciate your support and thank you in advance for your consideration and generosity. To make a donation, please contact the agency directly at (360) 878-8389 or submit a request via the Contact Us page.