An essential resource for health, beauty & cultural support.

Provide participant with specific information on:

• Beauty standards influence on child development
• Stories and perspectives on the effects of beauty standards
• How and when to utilize different hair or skin care tools
• How to decide on which hair or skin care products to purchase
• How to simplify hair care & maintenance
• Differences in skin care regimens
• Styling methods and techniques
• Questions and concerns when choosing a stylist for your child
• Communication with children on health & beauty

With the goal, that parents walk away with:

• An understanding of how to instill confidence in the area of beauty
• An understanding of the beauty needs and requests of their children
• The ability to simplify/decrease the time required to maintain curly hair
• The ability to support their children’s health & beauty needs
  • The ability to style and maintain their children’s hair
  • The ability to select products and styles based on the child’s hair type
  • The ability to decipher between a stylist who values the family, from
    one who might take advantage of the parents’ unfamiliarity with
    African-American styling practices
• Hands-on experience with styling techniques and care (when available)
  • Twists
  • Braids
  • Weave & Extensions
  • and much more

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Provide participant with general information on:

• Theology of transracial adoption and child development
• Stories and perspectives from children who grew up in transracial adoption
• What needs to be done to fill the gaps between Caucasian
  and African-American culture
• Racial socialization for transracially adopted children
• Parenting techniques to help children understand the concept
  of race and avoid prejudice

With the goal, that parents walk away with:

• A better understanding of African-American culture
• New perspectives on parenting in transracial adoption
• Techniques for parenting on complex issues such as race
• Techniques to build & support the racial identity of their children