Belonging by Any Means Necessary
The heaviest things kids carry this fall won’t be in their backpacks.
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.
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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 heaviest things kids carry this fall won’t be in their backpacks.

When a teacher asks a classroom of students to describe what makes their families special, one child worries their home is simply too different to explain.

Those who joined us at Family Camp experienced firsthand how amazing Dr. Jenn is.
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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.
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