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.
Belonging by Any Means Necessary
As a child, I didn’t understand that heavy energy, but it fueled my entire world. In my small, sports-focused New England town, I realized early on that cheerleading was my gateway to inclusion. I drilled my jumps to perfection and pushed my tumbling to the max. It worked: after cheering in junior high, I made the varsity squad as the only freshman.
The Perilous Fight by Colin Kaepernick (Releasing September 15, 2026)
In his defining new memoir, The Perilous Fight, Kaepernick pulls back the curtain on the journey behind the headlines. He shares the personal, internal process of moving from a kid trying to fit into spaces that weren't built for him, to a man willing to sacrifice his career to stand in his full truth and advocate for his community.
Colin Kaepernick
Before he was a Super Bowl quarterback or an internationally recognized civil rights activist, Colin Kaepernick was a Black kid raised by white adoptive parents in Turlock, California. Like so many transracially adopted youth in majority-white towns, he used sports as both a proving ground and a gateway to belonging—a place where athletic performance felt like armor against the quiet friction of not matching the world around him.
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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.