Child Mind Institute: “Trauma & Grief”

This webpage features countless articles about the basics of recognizing and addressing trauma in children. It includes topics like the effects, causes, and treatments of…

Beynd the Golden Rule

This illustrated book serves as a parent’s guide to preventing and responding to prejudice. This book explores how to discuss racism and tolerance depending on…

Beyond Words Psychological Services

This LLC, established by Dr. Chaitra Wirta-Leiker, offers a directory of professional (medical and mental health) resources in the Denver Metro Area. Dr. Wirta-Leiker specializes…

House of Rainbow

House of Rainbow serves LGBTQ+ people of color and faith. This organization works to combat religious homophobia and validates the belonging of LGBTQ+ in religious…

Inclusive Therapists

Inclusive Therapists serve underrepresented communities through its mission to be a mental health liberation movement creating change through decolonial education, collective care, and activism. They…

God Painted Me

This is a children’s picture book that discusses transracial adoption. It uses religion to portray adoption and human creation.

A Mother for Choco

This is a children’s book about a young bird (Choco) who journeys to find a mother who looks just like himself. Eventually, he is taken…

I Love You Like Crazy Cakes

This is a children’s book that tells the story of a woman who travels to China to adopt a baby girl. It’s based on the…

The Family Book

In this children’s picture book, the author celebrates many different types of families. He assures readers that no matter what kind of family you have,…

The Red Thread: An Adoption Fairy Tale

This story originates from the ancient Chinese belief that an invisible, unbreakable red thread connects everybody destined to be together. In this children’s book, a…

The Red Blanket

This is the story of the author’s journey to China to adopt a baby girl. It’s a heartwarming adoption story that reveals the challenges, as…

Adopted (2008)

This tells the story of two adoptees and their families. One family is a couple excitedly preparing for the adoption of a baby girl. The…

Adoption Support Alliance

The ASA offers a beginner’s adoption course designed for prospective adoptive families. The class discusses various aspects of adoption, including logistical challenges, managing grief and…

InnoPsych

An organization dedicated to “healing to communities of color by changing the face and feel of therapy.” Their goal is to make therapists of color…

Approved for Adoption (2012)

An animated film about a Korean adoptee joining a Belgium family and his return to his birth country. The story follows him over the course…

Closure (2013)

A transracial adoptee finds her birth mother and meets the rest of her family who did not know she existed, including her birth father. This…

Lion (2016)

A movie about a birth family search based on a true story. A child from India gets lost, taken thousands of miles away from home,…

Angela Tucker

Angela Tucker is a multimedia phenomenon leading discussions about race, class, and identity. She was adopted from foster care to a white family, and grew…

Twin Sisters (2013)

This heartwarming documentary is about twin sisters who are adopted by different families. They find their way back to each other via social media. This…

First Person Plural (2000)

A documentary about an 8-year old girl who was adopted by an American family. She later discovers that she has a birth family in Korea.…

Searching for Go-Hyang (1998)

A film about twin sisters who are adopted into the US, but return back to Korea 14 years later. They hope to explore and reconnect…

Blue Bayou (2021)

A movie about a Korean adoptee raised in Louisiana. He struggles to make a better life for his family. However, he must confront his past…

Off and Running (2009)

A movie about an African-American adoptee with white, Jewish lesbians parents and two other adopted siblings beginning to become more curious about their roots. Her…

White Sugar Brown Sugar

A blog by a mom about her adopted children. She doesn’t disclose their names or faces out of respect and describes her adoptions as domestic,…

Angela Tucker: The Adopted Life

A 2-hour virtual workshop led by a transracial adoptee (Angela Tucker). Families leave understanding how transracial adoptees progress from racial awareness to racial identity, as…

Rhonda M. Roorda, MA

Rhonda is a transracial adoptee from New York. She is an author and public speaker and her work focuses on her identity as a Black…

Diary of a Not-So-Angry Asian Adoptee

The blog of Christina Romo — a Korean adoptee, mom, wife, and advocate. She details her life, thoughts on adoption, and provides the perspective of…