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Page 1: Webinar Ministry with Transracially Adopted Youth …Ministry with Transracially Adopted Youth • Objectives:-Learn the fundamentals of ministry with transracially adopted youth.-Articulate

Ministry with Ministry with Transracially Transracially

Adopted Youth Adopted Youth UUA - Ministries and Faith Development:

Youth and Young Adult Ministries and Resource Development Offices

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Ministry with Transracially Adopted Ministry with Transracially Adopted YouthYouth

• Welcome

• Introductions

Page 3: Webinar Ministry with Transracially Adopted Youth …Ministry with Transracially Adopted Youth • Objectives:-Learn the fundamentals of ministry with transracially adopted youth.-Articulate

Ministry with Transracially Adopted Ministry with Transracially Adopted YouthYouth

• Objectives:- Learn the fundamentals of ministry with

transracially adopted youth.- Articulate and process any comfort discussing

ethnic/racial identity development. - Learn about and share resources.

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Questions to ProcessQuestions to Process

• Why is it important for faith leaders to learn about the ministry needs of transracially adopted children and youth?

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Questions to ProcessQuestions to Process

• Are you comfortable taking about your race/ethnicity?

• Are you comfortable talking to other people about their race/ethnicity?

• Have you engaged in racial/ethnic identity work?

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Questions to ProcessQuestions to Process

• What assumptions do you live with concerning adoption?- What are your feelings related to

adoption?

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Questions to ProcessQuestions to Process

• What assumptions do you live with concerning transracial adoption?– What are your feelings related to

transracial and transnational adoption?

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Questions to ProcessQuestions to Process

•What tells you a child or youth of color is adopted?

- What assumptions are you making?•Is it possible the child or youth is biracial?

- What feelings does that bring up for you?

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Questions to ProcessQuestions to Process

• What is your relationship with the child or youth?- It is important to form a trusting

relationship and safe space for the child or youth to communicate before there is a crisis.

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ChallengesChallenges

• What is your relationship with their parent/s/guardian?– Are the parents/guardians open to

talking about race/ethnicity? – Unless you have talked with

parent/guardians do not assume they are open to dialogue and or programming.

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ChallengesChallenges

• Remember this process is not about you.• No one program or experience is enough.

- culture camp - one RE class related to identity

• Understanding that issues related to normal stages of development and issues related to adoption can manifest similarly and may be tangled together.

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Ministry in ActionMinistry in Action

• Provide identity development education across generations

• Create a safe environment where youth feel comfortable talking about their identity.

• Do not assume all transracially adopted youth have the same experience.

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Helpful Tips for ParentsHelpful Tips for Parents(1) encourage children to acknowledge and discuss their racial

heritage with you as well as other significant individuals; (2) acknowledge that their child’s racial/ethnic heritage is

different from their own and recognize that as a positive; (3) give their child opportunities to develop relationships with

peers from many different backgrounds by allowing them to attend integrated schools and by living in integrated neighborhoods;

(4) allow their child to meet role models through participation in social activities held by support groups…

(5) Form a family identity as an interracial unit.[1]

[1] R. McRoy and E. Freeman, “Racial Identity Issues among Mixed-race Children,” Social Work in Education 8 (1986): 164-75.

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Helpful Tips for Religious LeadersHelpful Tips for Religious Leaders

• Identify organizations in your area that are involved in transracial/transnational adoption.– Host speakers, panel discussions and other

education events.• Help to organize a parent support group.• Help to organize events for children and youth.

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Ministry with Transracially Adopted Ministry with Transracially Adopted YouthYouth

• Questions

• Resource Sharing

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ResourcesResources•Mosaic Project – The 2009 Mosaic Project Report assessed and made recommendations for meeting the needs of UU youth and young adults of color.•Weaving a Family: Untangling Race and Adoption – (book) Barbara Katz Rothman looks at the contemporary American family through the lens of race, race through the lens of adoption, and all-race, family, and adoption-within the context of the changing meanings of motherhood.•UUA Multiculturalism resources webpage•The Primal Wound : Understanding the Adopted Child (book) Nancy Newton Verrier•Rev. Dr. Monica L. Cummings, Ministry with Youth and Young Adults of Color, [email protected]

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ResourcesResources•UUA Identity-Based Workshops for Youth – each with animated video an animated video and guidance for follow-up discussion http://www.uua.org/re/youth/identity-based/workshops/index.shtml•Intro to Ethnic Identity for Youth of Color http://www.uua.org/re/youth/identity-based/workshops/189534.shtml•Intro to White Identity for Youth http://www.uua.org/re/youth/identity-based/workshops/189571.shtml•“Off and Running” – PBS POV film. Description, guidance for screening the film, and lesson plans: http://www.pbs.org/pov/offandrunning/lesson_plan.php