Together on the Journey

TRJ Annual Family Camp

TRJ was born out of the need for greater understanding of and support for transracially adopted persons and their families in all stages of life and sectors of society.

Founded by an adoptive parent in 2013, TRJ began hosting a 4-day family camp for the Black and Brown adopted children and their white adoptive parents to come together to explore issues of adoption, identity, and race with the support of counselors for the children and outside speakers for the adults.

Children and their parents found a safe space to have challenging discussions, friendships developed, and a geographically dispersed community took root.

TRJ Annual Family Camp continues to be our primary programming and highlight of the year. Families return year after year. New families join. Older campers became counselors-in-training and then counselors.

Post-Adoption Resources

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.

TRJ Monthly Email Newsletter with articles related to the monthly themes connected to transracial adoption, celebrates Black excellence, and highlights books that integrate adoption into the story.
TRJ Family Program is designed to help families nurture identity, belonging, and cultural connections at home, not just during a single weekend in August, but all year long.
TRJ/June-in-April Activity Deck has a card for each month of the year that connects with the monthly theme and poses corresponding questions, conversation starters, or prompts for having more regular and intentional conversations about adoption, identity and differences of race. The cards are designed for children to ask parents the questions and spark reflections and conversations.
TRJ Consulting Support to organize a mini-TRJ Camp in your area in collaboration with your local social service/post-adoption support agency.

Why We Exist

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.

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.

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Feature Article - April 7, 2026

April Showers: We Need to Stop Apologizing for the Rain

Growing up in rural New England, the phrase “April showers bring May flowers” was a meteorological fact. It usually rained a lot in April, then things bloomed in May. But as I got older, I realized people used that line to suggest that hardship eventually gives way to joy. As a Black/bi-racial transracially adopted person in a majority white community, feeling sadness and discomfort wasn't seasonal—it was a regular feeling all year long.

For All Things a Season By Bryan Post

For All Things a Season is a fundamental shift away from traditional "consequences-based" discipline. Bryan Post argues that most behavioral issues in children—especially those with a history of trauma or adoption—are actually stress responses masquerading as defiance.

The Architecture of Healing: Bryan Post

In the landscape of modern psychology and trauma-informed care, Bryan Post stands as a towering figure of Black excellence—not just for his academic rigor, but for his radical empathy. As a world-renowned clinician, author, and lecturer, Post has spent decades dismantling the "compliance-based" parenting models that have long failed vulnerable children, replacing them with a framework rooted in neurobiology and unconditional love.

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