Resources for Parents and Professionals
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Resources and links you may find useful.
Books and Readings
Adoptive Parents Association of British Columbia. Raising Healthy Multiracial Adoptive Families: A Question and Answer Guide for Adoptive Parents. www.bcadoption.com or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Ballard, R. (2009). Pieces of Me: Who do I Want to Be? (www.emkpress.com)
Crumbley, J. (1999). Transracial Adoption and Foster Care: Practice Issues for Professionals. CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America)
Ford, A. (2010). Brown Babies Pink Parents.
Iowa Foster and Adoptive Parents Association: Transracial Parenting in Foster Care and Adoption: Strengthening your Bicultural Family (Available online: www.ifapa.org)
McIntosh, P. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (Available online: http://www.case.edu/president/aaction/UnpackingTheKnapsack.pdf)
Simon, R.J. (2000). In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories. Columbia University Press.
Simon, R. J. (2007). In their Parents Voices: Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees. Columbia University Press.
Steinberg, G. & B. Hall. (2000). Inside Transracial Adoption. Perspectives Press, (IN).
Trenky, J. J. (2006). Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption. South End Press.
Online E-books
Speak Up! Responding to Everyday Bigotry
Transcultural_Transracial Adoption: Groundwork Press
Transracial Adoption: Apoptive Families
Agencies & Resources 
Adoptive Families Association of British Columbia (AFABC)
North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC)
Child Welfare Information Gateway
New York State Citizens Coalition for Children Inc.
Transracial adoption “works”, but what exactly can parents do to help ensure that their children will grow up with a happy and health with a well formed racial identity. Join our guest Beth Hall, Founder and Director of PACT, a multicultural adoption organization dedicated to addressing essential issues affecting adopted children of color, and co-author of Inside Transracial Adoption. Natasha Sky is a multiracial woman and mother of four young multiracial children, who joined her family through birth and adoption. Natasha created the MultiracialSky website, a collection of resources for multiracial families.
Creating a Family: Transracial/Multiracial Resources
Creating a Family: Suggested books for transracial families
DVD & Videos
Casey Family Programs. (2005). Knowing Who You Are: Helping youth in care develop their racial and ethnic identity [DVD].
Photosynthesis Productions. (1998). Struggle for Identity [DVD]. NYS Citizens’ Coalition for Children. http://www.nysccc.org/
Pact: an adoption alliance. Visible Differences: transracial parenting through adoption. http://store.yahoo.com/pactpress/tranad.html
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