Finding a Group In Your Area
Pact Affiliated Support Groups
As part of this mission, Pact invites support groups throughout North America to become Pact affiliates and be listed on our website as a resource for families and individuals. Groups are not moderated by Pact, an Adoption Alliance. Although Pact membership is not required to join Pact affiliated support groups, we urge all who are touched by adoption and/or concerned about children of color in adoption to become members. Pact's only connection to these groups is to offer resources for triad members who are looking for support and connection. Pact staff generally does not attend meetings, and Pact does not take responsibility for nor ownership of any of the statements or information provide by the group. Look for more groups to be added quarterly.
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California
- Pact's Northern CA Bay Regional Adoptive Family Group
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Families with adopted children of color meet monthly at a park or venue
location for informal gatherings on the first Sunday of the month. Locations
alternate at various locations around the bay. The majority of the kids who
attend regularly range in age from 0 to 12, but all ages are welcome.
- Adoptive Parents of Color Support Group
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A group for adoptive parents of color and their parenting partners that meets monthly around the Greater San Francisco Bay area. This group includes many parents of children who are babies, toddlers, and preschool age, although all are welcome. Join to talk about our unique issues and perspectives and give our children a chance to develop friendships with other adopted children their own age.
- Pact's Teen Club
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Meet other kids of color who were adopted or fostered. Here's a chance to have a good time with other kids who are like you. There are supervised teen and tween only activities (separate groups for teens and pre-teens). Parents can participate in a concurrent peer support group during which childcare is available for younger siblings.
- Pact's Los Angeles Regional Family Group
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Families with adopted children of color meet occassionally at a park or venue location for informal gatherings. Locations alternate at various locations around the LA area.
New Jersey
- Montclair-Bloomfield Area Adoptive Families with African American Children
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A small group of families (so far!) who have adopted African American children are gathering in Montclair for social and educational support as we work to support our children's development of healthy identity and self-esteem while parents explore and discuss issues and challenges. Monthly meetings in family homes and private internet discussion group.
North Carolina
- Transracial Families of the NC Triangle
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Transracial Families of the NC Triangle is a collection of families parenting transracially through foster care and adoption in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area of North Carolina. This group's mission is to provide a support and educational network for transracial families - both for the parents and transracially adopted and fostered children. This includes supporting the families through the unique challenges of transracial parenting and nurturing the children's positive racial identity by education and celebration of racial heritage and cultural diversity. They hold monthly meetings, usually on the 2nd Saturday of the month. Please see website for updated meeting time and locations.
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