True Colors (click here for details)

True Colors is a workshop for transracial and interracial families that
focuses on the issues inherent to parenting children across racial
lines. We will present concrete suggestions for connecting your child
to his or her racial heritage and information about how positive racial
identity develops. Guest Speakers are a panel of adult adoptees sharing
their lived
experiences. We will focus on white privilege and how white parents
bring
blinders to some of the racial realities that their children will deal
with
as a fact of life as a person of color. Real life scenarios will be
also
explored in an interactive approach to problem solving and
understanding the
obvious and sometimes not so obvious divides and boundaries that
multiracial
families must negotiate. This workshop is required for Pact clients
currently waiting to adopt across racial lines as well as parents who
are
experiencing new challenges as they and their children enter new ages
and
stages of the journey.