Culture and Heritage Information

Training Programs

 

Adoptions Together

3837 Farragut Avenue
Kensington, MD 20895
(301) 933-7333

Contact: Debbie Riley, Director, Family Resource Center

Program Title: "Transracial Adoption"

 

Association of Black Social Workers

Child Adoption, Counseling and Referral Service
1969 Madison Ave., #6 DFL
New York, NY 10035-1549
(212) 831-5181

Contact: Leora Neal, Executive Director

Program Title: "If Transracial Parenting Happens, How White Parents and the African-American Community Can Work Together"

 

Black Adoption Services/Three Rivers Adoption Council

307 Fourth Ave., Ste. 710
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
(412) 471-8722
Contact: Program DirectorProgram Title: "Promoting Racial Self-Esteem in Black Children Who Are Transracially Adopted"

 

Children's Home Society of Washington

Adoption Resource Center
3300 NE 65th Street
Seattle, WA 98115
(206) 524-6020 or (800) 456-3339

Contact: Training Director
Program Titles: "Interracial Adoption;" "Cross-Cultural Adoption"

 

Family Resources

1521 Foxhollow Road
Greensboro, NC 27410
(919) 852-5357

Contacts: Bernard and Joan McNamara, Executive and Associate Directors
Program Title: Transracial Adoption

 

Perspectives Press

P.O. Box 90318
Indianapolis, IN 46290-0318
(317) 872-3055

Contact: Patricia Irwin Johnston, Publisher and Educator
Program Titles: "Embracing Difference"; "Opening Ourselves to New Issues"

 

Southern Connecticut State University

Department of Counseling and School Psychology
501 Crescent Street
New Haven, CT 06515
(203) 397-4564

Contact: Dr. Nancy Janus, Professor
Program Title: "Adoption Issues Institute"

 

Linda Yellin and Associates

27600 Farmington Road, Suite 107
Farmington Hills, MI 48334
(810) 489-9570
Contact: Linda Yellin, Director

Program Title: "Education, Information, and Support for Families Who Adopt Children of a Different Religion or Ethnic Group"

 

Footnotes

1 Schreiber, p. 2. back

2 Elliott, p. 8. back

3 Elliott, p. 8. back

4 Melina, 1988, p. 2. back

5 Elliott, p. 8. back

6 Thorp, p. 36 back.

7 Van Gulden, F.A.C.E Conference Workshop, 1992. back

8 Melina, 1988, pp. 3-4. back

9 Pederson, p. 42. back

10 Brooks, p. 10. back

11 Flango and Flango, p. 317. back

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