Where Community Strengthens, Culture Grounds, Courage Stretches, and Care Sustains
Since 2013, TRJ has provided transracially adopted children and their families a home where identity, race, and culture are openly explored and celebrated.
Roots in Community: TRJ Family Camp provides a sanctuary for families to explore the full reality of transracial adoption. By bringing together the voices of transracially adopted persons along with professional guidance, and vital peer connections, we create a space for children and parents to learn, heal, and grow side by side.
Lifelong Impact: Campers grow into counselors, families return year after year, and the support extends far beyond camp—sustaining our families all year long.
As there are few resources in the adoption field that specifically provide post-adoption support for transracial families, TRJ has developed additional online and physical resources for families to successfully navigate issues all year long.
Adoption is often spoken about in terms of love and gratitude, but the reality is more layered. Transracially adopted children grow up navigating profound questions of identity, belonging, and cultural connection–often in families and communities that don't fully understand their lived experience. Without intentional support, these children can feel isolated in both their racial and adoptive identities, caught between worlds that don't always see or affirm them.
The Weight of the Glow: What Gets Hollowed Out
Walk down almost any street in October, and you will see porches lined with jack-o'-lanterns. Some with a snaggle-toothed grin; others wear a look of shock; and still others are carved with a look of "beware." Folks stop and say, "Look at how that one glows."
We love the glow of the finished design. But we rarely talk about what had to happen first.
Stranger in My Own Story By Erik Mohn
What happens when you grow up loved, yet surrounded by a world where no one looks like you? In his debut memoir, Stranger in My Own Story, author Erik Mohn delves into the nuanced, emotionally complex space of growing up as a Black boy raised by a white adoptive family.
Nikole Hannah-Jones
Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, creator of The 1619 Project, and Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at Howard University, Nikole Hannah-Jones embodies Black excellence not merely through institutional accolades, but through an unrelenting commitment to truth-telling.
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April shares her very personal experience as a transracially adopted person as she opens up a conversation about the beauty and complexity of adoption through interviews and reflections. Each episode is anchored in the months of the year, connecting poignant holidays, rituals, rites of passage, and celebrations to adoption, identity and family.