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Transracial/Trancultural Families
Many families adopt children from other racial or cultural backgrounds, either through domestic or intercountry adoption. Families who adopt transracially may ask for additional resources to help them raise children from a different racial or cultural background. This section offers resources for professionals working with families who have completed or are considering transracial or transcultural adoption and includes State and local examples.
MEPA [Webcast]
National Resource Center for Adoption
Reviews key MEPA concepts and terms, answers frequently asked questions, and provides practical information about how child welfare agencies and their workers can comply with MEPA in their programs and daily practice. This presentation is sponsored by the Policy Division of the Administration for Children and Families, Children's Bureau, and presented by Allison Lowery Palmer, Policy Division, in coordination with the National Resource Center for Adoption.
Information Packet: Domestic Transracial Adoption (PDF - 98 KB)
National Resource Center for Foster Care and Permanency Planning (2002)
Includes information on the challenges children face when they are adopted transracially and offers strategies for supporting families who have adopted children from different racial or ethnic backgrounds.
Enhancing Positive Outcomes in Transracial Adoptive Families
California Social Work Education Center (2004)
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Provides current, relevant, and sensitive information about the experiences and challenges of transracial adoptive families to improve the quality of services and supports provided to them.
Promising Practice for Maintaining Identities in First Nation Adoption
Carriere (2007)
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Explores the importance of identity in First Nation adoption.
Supporting Transracial Adoptive Families: Start From Where They Are
Steinberg & Hall
Emphasizes the importance of supporting children who have been adopted transracially.
Transracial Adoption: Families Identify Issues and Needed Support Services
De Haymes &. Simon
Child Welfare, 82(2), 2003
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Explores a number of transracial placements and adoptions to identify potential services that would support and enhance them.
Transracial Adoption and Foster Care
Crumbley (1999)
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Provides guidelines to child welfare professionals for serving transracial adoptive and foster care families.
Perspectives of transracial adopted people
In Search of Belonging: Reflections by Transracially Adopted People
Harris (Ed.) (2006)
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Includes the contributions of more than 50 transracially adopted people in stories exploring the lifelong impact of transracial adoption.
Native American Transracial Adopted People Tell Their Stories
Simon & Hernandez (2008)
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Presents 20 interviews with Native American adopted people raised in non-Native homes that explore complex questions of cultural identity formation.
Personal Profiles: Adopted People
Pact: An Adoption Alliance
Presents the perspectives and experiences of people adopted transracially.
Struggle for Identity: Issues in Transracial Adoption A Conversation 10 Years Later
New York State Citizens' Coalition for Children (2007)
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Explores, in a two-part DVD, the experiences of a group of adopted people who grew up in transracial adoptive families. In the first part the adopted people discuss confronting stereotypes, fitting in with their culture of origin, and learning to define themselves racially; the second follows up on two of the original participants.