WHAT WE DO

Ujima is a African advocate dedicated to healing and strengthening our community through a cultural lens. There is a real need for African behavioral health services — a need exacerbated by systemic racism. We exist to meet this need. Brothers and sisters come to Ujima to find community, affirmation, and a sense of belonging through treatment, advocacy, and services for our health and wellbeing. Reconnecting with our culture is how we HEAL: health, education, advocacy, and liberation. ​

BEHAVIORAL HEALTH

Ujima has been providing African centered behavioral health services in Santa Clara county since 1991.  We are a certified outpatient MediCal clinic providing services as part of the County’s Behavior Health Specialty Services...

YOUTH SERVICES

These are a variety of intervention/prevention community and school based programs designed to reinforce cultural strengths and values.  The programs serve African youth in various high schools working to increase...

UBUNTU WELLNESS CENTER

Ubuntu Wellness center is home to engaging wellness activities for the greater African community, with activities ranging from African drum/dance, open mics, and parenting workshops

SERVING THE AFRICAN COMMUNITY SINCE 1991

​Our mission statement is to improve the lives of African's by providing an African centered behavioral health and support services to the African community.  African centered services incorporate African history (Continent of Africa and throughout the diaspora) and cultural norms and values and make them the center from which all activities are formed.  We advocate on multiple levels to improve and challenge the policies and services in the community.
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Ujima Adult and Family Services, Inc.
1898 The Alameda
San Jose, CA 95126
P: (408) 928-1700      F: (408) 928-1701