Founded in 1967, United Community Services (UCS) of Johnson County, Inc. is a nonprofit research and planning organization that identifies human resource needs in Johnson County, Kansas.

UCS is the product of visionaries who saw a need for elected officials, businesses, clergy, human service organizations and others to work together. Their simple goal was to bring the community together to address present or future human service challenges faced by rapidly growing Johnson County. Find out more about the history of UCS.

Today, UCS seeks to shape a social service system that promotes, protects and restores the well being of Johnson County residents. Our goal is to identify both the short- and long-term human needs with the greatest potential to impact community residents. This information is used to inform decision makers about critical needs; guide funding decisions; and advance and lead community action.

As Johnson County’s human service planning agency, a core function of UCS is to serve as the United Way’s planning partner in Johnson County.