Adoptive families with children of color, don’t miss out on this summer’s Pact Camp.
From July 2 to July 6, at the Redwood Glen Camp and Conference Center at Loma Mar, Calif., this year’s camp, “Coloring Outside the Lines: The Art of Being an Adoptive Family,” will promote learning innovative and creative ways of being a family.
From Pact’s site:
The focus of Pact’s program is to promote family connection by creating safe spaces for children and adults to explore their issues as well as just plain have fun. Families with adopted children of color are always coloring outside the lines that society draws for them – we don’t fit into standard boxes, and at Pact Camp that can be celebrated and explored without fear or shame.
Many of the families who have attended previous Pact Family Camps referred to the event as life changing for them and their children. They continue to contact us with stories of new conversations and breakthroughs their children are experiencing about both race and adoption. Whether you’re parenting a child who shares your race, or parenting across racial lines, whether your adoption was domestic or international, whether you have birth kids along with adopted kids or not, Pact’s gathering for adoptive families of color is designed with your family in mind.
Esteemed multitasker Susan Ito and her colleagues have a great camp program in store for adoptive families this summer, and it’s exciting to see some familiar names and superfabulous adult adoptees of color Lisa Marie Rollins, John Raible and Robbin Rasbury on the program lineup already. Lisa Marie and Robbin were two of my co-panelists at last summer’s Pact Camp panel of adult adoptees. And you may have already read John’s fantastic piece, “Lifelong Impact, Enduring Need,” in Outsiders Within. Campers will be in good hands this July.
You can read more about this summer’s camp, and register, or apply to volunteer or work as a camp counselor at http://www.pactadopt.org/events/camp.html.
